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Mars: For anyone interested in the Perseverance touch down

Hope they’ve improved the CGI since that fake moon landing malarkey.

Seriously looking forward to watching this.
 
Hope they’ve improved the CGI since that fake moon landing malarkey.

Seriously looking forward to watching this.

Quoting that erudite poster as it reminded me of something and I think it may be of interest to folk interested in this.

One of our members here has a YouTube channel in which they’ve used various techniques to improve a lot of original Apollo mission films, taking them up to 60fps, increased resolution and the like:

https://youtube.com/c/Dutchsteammachine

Now I know there is some criticism of these types of efforts as they are not “accurate” however given the wide availability of the originals I think they are very interesting.
 
That made me almost as emotional as the Mission Control crew.

Pictures already! Amazing!

Gotta love the simple but elegant 8-bit logo.
 
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Fifty years ago watched the first moon landing. TV technology was in a different league, but the magic was the same.

Hans
 
I think that in the Apollo days, most of us didn't realize that robots would be the future space pioneers. Science fiction certainly didn't.

Hans
 
Watching the stream playback from about 7 minutes before atmospheric entry. This is pretty special.
 
A couple minor notes/simple pleasures:

I enjoyed the 360-degree view, being able to pan straight down and see the bag of peanuts next to the person's laptop. (JPL has a tradition of having peanuts after a successful landing.)

And seeing a tweet from Rick Astley saying something like "I'm familiar with the value of perseverance. Good job!" It took me just a few seconds to make the connection.
 
I think that in the Apollo days, most of us didn't realize that robots would be the future space pioneers. Science fiction certainly didn't.

Hans

And I don't care if no human ever tries to reach another celestial body. 'Taint't worth it.

Not with the increasingly neato robots we can send.
 
We're going to do it just to prove that we can. Humans are like that.

I was looking at the picture of the rover landing spot and thinking how much I would like to walk there. There would be a few who would trade a decade or two of life if that’s what it took, or even the risk of not making it.
 
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