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.
