NASA releases stunning 360-degree Mars video

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover at Namib Dune (360 view)






This image of the downwind face of "Namib Dune" on Mars covers 360 degrees, including a portion of Mount Sharp on the horizon. Use the arrows in the top left, or click and drag your cursor or mouse, to move the view up/down and right/left.

Link for 360 degrees(or click youtube icon in video) ...>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME_T4B1rxCg#t=47

 

Life of we want our money back

 

Mars has nice and dense enough atmosphere.

 

360 view doesn't supported by my SAFAR***305; browser. how rude sht poo.

 

I sat for the first 15-20 seconds waiting for it to start moving

 

u think you're alone??

 

Its an image, not a video. Still impressive
Though I am sure many would like to see an actual video from Mars, wind blowing etc. Afaik NASA rovers on Mars have HD video cameras, no?

 

Might be a limit of what they can send back from Mars, a single HD frame vs thousands of HD frames to make up an HD video

 

from wiki:

Curiosity can communicate with Earth directly at speeds up to 32 kbit/s,
but the bulk of the data transfer should be relayed through the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Odyssey orbiter.

Data transfer speeds between Curiosity and each orbiter may reach 2 Mbit/s and 256 kbit/s, respectively,
but each orbiter is only able to communicate with Curiosity for about eight minutes per day (0.56% of the time)

 

Yea, so might take a long time to send even just a 1 minute HD video back then

No doubt they want that too though

 

wow, incredible.

 

Gonna make a KickStarter to control NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover with a VR headset, who's in?

 

Well that didn't take too long

 

Ha!...yup never been to the moon....or mars...yup....right.
And the world is flat, and the gov is controlling the weather....

 

What even is your point?

Orwell wrote that 70 years ago, we know now the earth is an oblate spheroid, so yes, oval is technically correct, though you wouldn't be able to see the bulge without measurement, about 40-50km bulge.

 

Because it, the atmosphere, is moving along with the surface speed of the earth as it rotates as it does with birds for example. As there is relatively no friction with space to slow the atmosphere, as a whole it rotates with the Earth due to the friction from the ground. Are you trying to claim that once a helicopter lifts off the pad that suddenly there is a ~1000 mph delta in speed between it and the ground? I've read some wacky claims but you're way out there.

 

Eratosthenes demonstrated the circumference of the Earth over 2000 years ago. Eric Arthur Blair? He was a writer.

 

you sound like one of those folks who deny gravity exists without citing any mathematical scientific explanation for the force. i know not everybody is a rocket scientist, but weve had the technology for a manned mission to mars for over 40yrs. lack of funding & public interest has stalled space exploration, not technological barriers.

 

What we call gravity exists. It can be measured and it's effects measured and predicted with extreme precision. How gravity operates, is the theory.

edit...I'm sure you know that already...but I was bored..ha ha...