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Mars Rover (MSI Space Exhibit Renovation)

submitted by DerHasisttot

1 decade 3 years 8 months 2 weeks ago

Kuriositas -source sez: This is very cool. NASA's twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers were launched toward Mars on June 10 and July 7, 2003.

They were sent in search of answers about the history of water on the planet. The Mars Exploration Rover mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet.

The Museum of Science and Industry – Chicago (MSI) have put together this amazing film. It interpolates animation in to footage of the landing of one of the probes on Mars to give you a real time feeling for the event as it happened.

Original Source sez:
Client: Museum of Science and Industry – Chicago (MSI)
Date: August 2007
Length: 14:17
Roles: Editor
Notes: This is part of MSI’s space exhibit renovation. Built with NASA footage and animation.
©2007 Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago – All rights Reserved.

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The thumbnail image for this video has been updated - thumbnail added by geo321.

The story of these two rovers is one of the most fascinating science stories of the last few decades. They're a pretty amazing accomplishment. NOVA did a pretty good show on these too.

My favorite part was that the people who run and monitor the rovers need to do so during Mars' daylight hours when the solar panels on the rovers were active. Since a day on Mars is about 40 minutes longer than a day on Earth, people needed to adapt their work schedule to fit. This actually turned out to be WAY harder than it sounds. Imagine adjusting your schedule just a little bit every day, i.e.: picking the kids up from school, watching your favorite shows or making it to birthday parties, etc... And to make it worse, the rover missions which were initially planned to last something like six months have now been going on for YEARS. I haven't seen an update recently but the people on the NOVA program were already so screwed up by the schedule that just about the only thing they could eat was ice cream. Their stomachs just couldn't handle all the minor adjustments.

Moving this video to DerHasisttot's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter DerHasisttot.

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