Ultra HD ‘footage’ of Mars created by panning (using the Ken Burns effect) across high definition panoramas composed of stills taken by various Mars rovers. It’s not video but it’s very engaging.
Full screen for best effect and, if you’ve turned down the volume, ElderFoxDocumentaries sez:
Although the cameras are high quality, the rate at which the rovers can send data back to earth is the biggest challenge. Curiosity can only send data directly back to earth at 32 kilo-bits per second. Instead, when the rover can connect to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we get more favourable speeds of 2 Megabytes per second. However, this link is only available for about 8 minutes each Sol, or Martian day. As you would expect, sending HD video at these speeds would take a long long time. As nothing really moves on Mars, it makes more sense to take and send back images.
At 1:52, why does that look like water?
Genuine question
I see a footprint bottom left of screen @ 3:43…. this could be a case for Molder and Scully…!!!!!
Amazing stuff!
i was expecting to see a load of jawas hop out and try to nick the rover.