NASA releases Mars landing video

So Awesome! - “We Come in Peace!”

Best experience of This Life was ‘skydiving’ and slowly ‘parachuting’ to the ground.

Now, we can do it on Mars! Awesome!!

Pretty amazing stuff.

(The Chinese have been doing something similar, I hear...)

Wouldn’t it be nice to produce a ‘souvenir video’ for ‘our neighbors’ when they descend to Mars in April/May??

NASA will the ‘Ingenuity’ ascender deployed and working before ‘the next lander’ gets there.

Finally, half a century after its moon-landing saga, NASA has redeemed a bit of its past space glory after releasing the Mars landing video..

Love the landing video with the different views tied into the narration that we heard LIVE (11 min delay) on Earth.

Love they used 6 off-the-shelf cameras for the mostly throw-away aspects of landing - 5 of the 6 worked. Doesn't look red. Sky is almost blue, but not. Too bad the 1 microphone didn't work at all.

There are 2 other new Mars missions there now - one from China with a lander and one from the UAE, an orbiter, in collaboration U Colorado and ASU (AZ, not Alaska or Arkansas) and UC Berkley. China's landing is planned for something this May.

NASA is posting thousands of 4600+ raw images that anyone in the world can grab, view, use, process. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ NASA images don't have any copyright, so free to use worldwide.

Love they have a Mars Weather summary - high temp 18 degF today; about -8 degC. Low temp was -101 degF (-73 degC) - brrrrrr. Sunny spring time for the MSL on MED: 3035.

Can't wait for the helicopter photos, even though it has average cameras and isn't specifically for "science" - everyone loves a good selfie, right?

Less bouncy than the descent to the “Red Planet” with Val Kilmer.

They're very forthcoming with information

I keep waiting for the day when a mission from Earth lands on another planet far away, and after a successful landing turns on its camera, scans the horizon and finds a lander from another world is already there, maybe with its own rover driving over to have a look at the new arrival.

Amazing.