Amazing footage of Curiosity Rover Descent to Mars

Video showing Mars Curiosity Descent and Landing - Full Quality HD 1080p

Complete Mars Curiosity Descent – Full Quality Enhanced HD 1080p Landing + Heat Shield impact

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZX5GRPnd4U[/youtube]

This is a full-resolution version of the NASA Curiosity rover descent to Mars and landing, taken by the MARDI descent imager. As of August 20, all but a dozen 1600×1200 frames have been uploaded from the rover, and those missing were interpolated using thumbnail data. The result was applied a heavy noise reduction, color balance, and sharpening for best visibility.

The video plays at 15fps, or 3x realtime. The heat shield impacts in the lower left frame at 0:21, and is shown enlarged at the end of the video.

Image source NASA.

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CW Staff
CW Staff

In the late 80s I started investigating UFOs and crop circles and joined the CCCS (Centre for Crop Circle Studies) and a local group researching strange sightings and reports along the south coast of Dorset (UK). In the early ’90s I started my own research group called SPS (Strange Phenomena Studies), this was renamed in 2004 to Cryptoworld.

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