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

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 1600x1200 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: mars.jpl.nasa.g...
High resolution composite image of source photos: www.flickr.com/... (Pixiebat)

[@Piekartz]

Amazing, how these videos of man greatest achievements are followed up by the most stupid comments on the planet.

[@SaturnBoy33]

Spot on

[@Piekartz]

***** And... you proved my point.

[@kcwliew]

lol - so true... so true - viaductdreams needs to get a medal for the world's most appropriate comedy comment. Long live humanity!

[@Joeystick]

LMAO yeah

[@AKing416]

And they will be the first to say "and they cant feed the poor" why help Someone that won't help themselves we would not even of made it to north America. This is men at work tell the boys to stay home and starve while the big boys go find the lions den

[@danwotsa4522]

Finally a real footage without them annoying soundtracks or beats

[@jasonmeador2597]

We did this, man. A bunch of constantly squabbling, slightly advanced apes built a goddamn space robot that flew millions of miles through the void and succesfully landed on _a completely different planet_, just because we wanted to go see what it was like over there. Hardcore adventure science like this is why I never lose faith in Human Potential.

[@nightlightabcd]

Then apparently, you do not watch the news where a certain primitive baboon vomits out hateful lying smart a-s remarks on a minute bu minute bases with the complete support of the Republican party and the well funded right wing propagandist that sold their sole a long time ago!!

[@dalesajdak422]

nightlightabcd Jesus Christ, why can’t you just leave politics out of space travel. Do you really hate him _that much_ that you can’t just let someone appreciate our good accomplishments? Donald Trump only has at most four more years left in office, and the GOP will get bored with Trump-era Republicanism and move onto someone else (hopefully Bill Weld).

[@andrewelam4124]

This is old, but soon, we have even more to be faithful in, even in the Covid pandemic. SpaceX just successfully conducted a test flight of their starship that will take Human settlers to Mars in 2024.

[@danielromero001]

I never lose faith in humanity in general, not only because of these achievements, but because of how most people in the world are actually good people and only a minority is bad. If most people were bad, we would never have sent this probe to Mars in first place

[@CraigChrist8239]

​@@andrewelam4124It's 2024. This hasn't aged well.

[@DanielMonteiroNit]

For a improved experience, watch this with a fan at full speed just behind your head, making a big noise on your ears.

[@yoman45135]

Brilliant haha

[@PikabobAlex]

wrong, the fan should be in front of me

[@rakeshpillai4811]

Ok your ass too

[@patbau96]

@KimuTone They made a recording of Martian wind and it sounds pretty much like a gentle Earth wind

[@biggee316]

This footage moved me, as nothing has in a very long time. It made me feel like a kid again, awed at the prospect of traveling to another planet. 49 seconds full of wonder.

[@CryptoChanakya]

Its not fake, please learn to appreciate work of scientists, keep science above politics and obnoxious cynicism.

[@aserta]

***** How does it feel to be so stupid that you cannot even comprehend what you read? I'm really fascinated by stupid people. Equally as we are unable to be as stupid as you are so are you unable to realize your stupidity. Real, living fossils IMO, back when we used to make bridges out of downed trees and burned witches on stakes, equal mentality, equal intelligence. Biggest difference is we enabled you to use a computer/tablet/phone.

[@FortyTwoEighty]

***** And you read the header that says "synchronized simulation" too right?

[@Realmtrotter]

chocoboyc It IS fake and we don't live on a spinning globe.

[@ikodashiigo]

@@Realmtrotter lol ok

[@aliteralpieceofbread3373]

@@Realmtrotter lmao stfu

[@dylansanderson3386]

i live on mars and this is real

[@hartmannvondunaburg6768]

I believe you.

[@BehindDesign]

Dylan Sanderson How you arrived to mars?

[@masterbrowny1]

+Gordontrek when i went to the rest room in the restaurant it froze mid stream.

[@hartmannvondunaburg6768]

May I all invite you to a nice trip to Arctur ? Better than dreaming of master potatoes in green martian sauce is to have nice dinner in arcturian restaurant...

[@GunnerHeatFire]

Mars

[@CandyGlass25]

All those dislikes are from people who obviously know nothing about how to land on mars, or they never thought people could actually put a camera on a rover. Its not staged so accept the fact that the US landed on mars and filmed it happening.

[@Sassymui8]

***** Russia already admitted defeat in the Moon race haha

[@1312_PV]

+Sassymui8 Yes, actually there is a Russian crowdfunding project based on the Cubesat 6U to take pictures of the landing sites (that is to get more funding, the main project is not related to the Apollo moon landing) done by "green cat", an importan Russian space privateer and he says that he already knows you landed, not admiting it will be insulting the Soviet scientists who congratulated the USA for their achievement.

[@PiBBslut]

Can’t wait to see this live with Perseverance. History is going to be made. Edit: TOUCHDOWN CONFIRMED

[@UNSCPILOT]

Footage arrives tomorrow, with more cameras this time and audio, really looking forward to it

[@freemusic2253]

@@KasiToursSA agree

[@SuperGeronimo999]

Here it is! kzbin.info/www/bejne/apTdm4ZvnZl5psk

[@SuperGeronimo999]

​@@KasiToursSA Because the cameras are covered by the heatshield?

[@SuperGeronimo999]

@@KasiToursSA Easy to fake that too with CGI, by your logic.

[@TonyAKA30]

This footage never ceases to amaze me. Science is wonderful. If only we can all get together as a species and toss aside our greed and differences we would be far more advanced and would have solved our current world problems. That's the beauty of science, people get together regardless of gender, age, nationality or ethnicity in order to progress and inovate. Science unites us all 😊

[@falconsatl11]

+Tony Koter Although I agree with your comment this footage is fake curiosity doesn't take videos lol

[@scottshort9778]

+falconsatl11 It doesn't take "video" per say, but it does have a descent imager. Here is one such image taken by the camera: mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=0000MD9999000494E1_DXXX&s=0 More images here: mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=0&camera=MARDI Stitch all those images together and show one after another and you have this thing called video.

[@scottshort9778]

Why not? Every single frame that makes it up is found on NASA's site.

[@falconsatl11]

+Scott Short source?

[@Random_Guy_On_The_Internet2023]

Here after we got video of the Perseverance landing

[@Adityasanganeria]

Thanks America. Lots of love and luck from India 🇮🇳 keep up the good work. You are a true inspiration to all of us here. Thanks again for teaching the world the power of dreaming.

[@TeoGrehan]

Dammmmm one of the top 3 videos/images EVER, EVER. Images or videos of the Moon, Pluto and Mars have got to be the most influential ever. Especially this one and the moon landings. Think about it, the first images/video of a foreign planet. Truly amazing. When I was a kid in the 80's I would lie in bed and the two questions that would keep me up all night was, is there life beyond earth? and what major events will I see in my lifetime? I think it's grossly under rated how big and amazing this video is. The first contact with the red planet.

[@stefanocostanzo560]

Dude, for real? This wasnt even the second time we landed on Mars, look it up.

[@TeoGrehan]

Just looked it up, that is mental man. HEAPS of attempts haha

[@jbaltusstuff5908]

Teo Grehan i

[@pricelessppp]

Who’s hear because of the perseverance launch tomorrow?

[@PasseScience]

because of the perseverance landing next week

[@peopleperson]

because of it landing today

[@UtubeIsBadNews]

Times like these, I wish I could live forever to experience all the greatest space exploration has to offer.

[@forgotn42]

I'm amazed by how softly it touched down. It's remarkable.

[@CelestialTrieye]

nicki minaj - 300 million views Mars rover landing - 3 million

[@R4WRNation]

This is so amazing, that im happy that im a young age so i can see more in the future.

[@TonyAKA30]

This video should have 1 billion views instead of Despacito and such. This raises to question of are humans really an intelligent species?

[@StinkFingerr]

Are You kidding?! Watching that shiny little Sputnik go beeping over us was just the spur we needed to get busy with our space program.Thanks Comrade!

[@ethanharper787]

It looks like it would crash and then it landed safely...and I remembered my terrifying descent to the Munar surface in KSP.

[@kalumm3210]

Cool now let's ship all our politicians to Mars without protection!

[@netauri123]

brazilian politicians first

[@kalumm3210]

netauri123 All of them on one flight would be alot cheaper!

[@jumptodestiny]

indian politician first

[@ir0nmaiden1]

finally some live footage!, i've been waiting for something like this. thank you nasa! can't wait for the live footage of the curiosity....

[@PUSHA304]

Simply AMAZING!!! When you think how far away mars is and we can get footage this good and photos that are so clear is remarkable. It he universe holds all the answers to all the questions we have and this is another step towards finding them. If only we could see what voyager 1 and voyager 2 have seen on their journey as clear as this would be unreal.

[@cavaliersfan124]

lol we have a fkn machine on mars. on fkn mars. wow

[@TheCuriousRover]

Anthony DAmbrosio Its pretty astonishing what we can do with a little funding in space exploration, now if only the public could be made to see that...

[@1312_PV]

Yeah, and it is not even the first, humans are the worst and best species at the same time.

[@aromardu]

We've had them there since the 70s. Two rovers are even still going.

[@poopahskoopahh8563]

Yeah it's pretty amazing thinking about it

[@sprinter1boy]

Where you been, we've had rovers and others instruments on Mars since the 70s lol.

[@TheWalrusMan95]

It's nice to finally have a color video

[@kevinfrushour]

I could watch this over and over again.

[@AlphaSerpentis]

SCIENCE!

[@howardrash998]

This is the best mars video I have ever seen

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

Who came here juste before the live from JPL about Percie ? ^^

[@FateCarver]

This is the best video I have ever seen in my life! Nothing is more amazing to me!

[@freewillftw]

HD Mars Landing video! That's unbelievable!

[@Tremor244]

wow, how the hell have I never seen this video, I looked at all the curiosity videos on youtube and somehow missed this one :O

[@SuperGeronimo999]

Because it's not a real video, just lots of pictures taken together. Here's a video from the new landing though. kzbin.info/www/bejne/apTdm4ZvnZl5psk

[@aaaaaaa5310]

This is beautiful

[@TheParablade]

I was the cameraman :)

[@sonydogman]

I 'm sure they have selected a nice isolated spot and landed quietly!

[@jasonmatthers4911]

the footage really is out of this world

[@Ed-tg2sp]

Jason Matthers go please,that pun is literally killing me

[@bardia8905]

Ah finally a good footage

[@ivorytabs]

WHAT A RIDE!!! Incredibly well-done!!

[@sasca854]

It's kind of eerie how much Mars looks like one of Terra's deserts.

[@The_Primary_Axiom]

Soo much science had to go into this tiny clip.

[@joshortiz2459]

0:20 you can see the heat shield hit the surface at the bottom of the screen if u look close enough at 0:20. Its easier to spot if u fallow it down starting when it detaches from the decent stage

[@mob1235]

very awesome video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing to see a real high quality video from mars and no animations. Thats so amazing. People who dont like this are not able to understand what they see! more than 50mio km away they reach one small spot and get this machine there working. the braking at the end is the best!

[@abnormalbo]

NASA, I think, does not find better video to be scientifically useful, but as you touched on there needs to be a wow factor that can help get the public behind them and wanting to invest more.

[@TheAmGoth]

This is absolutely amazing video and an amazing triumph for science, the United States, and astrophiles all over the world. Finally, after decades of blunders I can be proud of NASA and the JPL.

[@samuelweinstein4405]

This is one of the most incredible things...

[@richievts]

This is quite simply mind blowing

[@thrummer1953]

Thank You for understanding.Much appreciated.Never be ashamed of America's achievements.

[@StinkFingerr]

He seems quite calm to me.Eloquent in fact.

[@CaraCitrine]

The thing that dropped at the start was the head shield. It protected to rover from the friction the atmosphere produced, but when it was no longer needed (the parachute was deployed) they let it fall.

[@artofdostin]

this shows how amazing humans can be, these men build something to go from earth to mars so far away! they managed to enter mars atmosphere and land a car sized machine! and take pictures of a whole different planet and a video, i just hope we will be able to send a man to mars!

[@LukeFitch]

That's not an edit, that's the transition to powered flight mode - it's simply a bit jarring at the sped-up frame rate. I agree they should prioritize getting the best possible video on these missions, but the last few frames STILL have not been uploaded: so you can get an idea how tight the bandwidth is.

[@ronettreker]

995 people are conspiracy theorists who probably think Vostok 1, Apollo and Voyager are fake.

[@chewchewboy]

This is bad ass, thanks NASA. People keep leaving worthy comments please, I do not like scrolling to see trolls on a video this epic.

[@manchegoruso]

i agree. they have done some amazing things in the past,would be cool to see how far humanity reaches in the next 20 to 30 yrs.

[@Arrmand1964]

Love this stuff hope it all goes well and we get lots of new exciting discoveries to come well done NASA and all the boffins who worked to make this venture work so far.

[@singingismybliss]

Wow Nasa!! This is just incredible to watch! I am simply in awe!

[@indoguju]

Why would anyone dislike this... Humans are amazing...

[@501alistair]

Iit's incredible to think that about 100 years ago people were just getting the basics on how to fly a plane and now we can fly to other planets.

[@davidvin2387]

Beautiful work sir!

[@salvatorebalacco]

THIS IS AMAZING!

[@XcarecaX]

Actually NASA did put the raw footage online. It's in the link on the description. Many film negatives from before they used digital cameras of all their missions are available to the public at their museums and databases.

[@Erebus5620]

As I started watching this I was thinking "Man, this is really cool" but once rover stared kicking up dust it suddenly hit me... WE ARE ON A WHOLE OTHER PLANET!!!! THAT IS INSANELY AWESOME!!!!! I feel proud to call my self a human !!

[@connor129s]

Very interesting, really appreciate the answer. Thanks mate :) Maybe if the instruments malfunction and the camera becomes the only working thing they may decide to relay some video. It would be quicker for a 720p video, I mean it does take awhile but if the rover is in operation for 20 years.. I don't see why they wouldn't show us some video in the future sometime. But ty

[@falco830]

Thanks for the information! That makes sense now, with mars atmosphere a bit different from ours. They said that they might post some high definition videos of the crater, I would assume they might have a little sound...?

[@Coaljet]

Wish it was recorded with real sound from the ambient environment.

[@CloroxBleach-sz6bg]

He just downloaded the raw images nasa published and put them together to a video. Also mars has a VERY VERY thin atmosphere if msl had a microphone you wouldn't hear anything

[@ajolillen]

Two years later, but Perseverance is set to land soon, and it _will_ record audio!

[@derekwall200]

why didn't they have an external mounted camera that could show atmospheric entry

[@nogussy]

because it would interfere with it and it'd probably burn either way

[@faiazirfan1262]

@Schwanzmajor I don't think Devon island has craters

[@somethingtojenga]

993 people will find a speck in the video that proves this was done in a Mars-sized studio behind the Moon.

[@TheJonahBomb]

Holy cow, thats what landing on another planet looks like? Amazing!

[@JohnCrichton]

Wowww, it was really close to not correcting the landing properly but it snapped to in the last 5-8 seconds.

[@ccarroll4339]

How can anyone honestly dislike this?

[@thrummer1953]

The World seems so bogged down in muck,but for one shining moment in 1969 Mankind turned it's breathless attention skyward as Human Beings walked for the first time on another celestial body.At that moment we were shown to have the potential to become a transcendent species. At that moment we felt as though all things were possible. Let it never be forgotten that it was America who gave humanity that precious gift. RIP Neil Armstrong, American

[@kaprphish]

There is nothing more important than space exploration.

[@Wiquzor]

the thing with manned missions is you have to account for the radiation levels more then with an unmanned rover/satellite, oxygen, food and waste that is produced during the mission. also an unmanned mission that can continue many years vs a manned mission that only could stay on the surface for a week or two. I would say that unmanned missions is more cost effective.

[@TheJonahBomb]

little dark spot that shows heat shield impact around 0:20 towards the bottom of the screen and right above the video marker

[@koosvanderwat8861]

The pebbles remain static under the blasters. This footage can easily be made. Looks like a 3D designer showreel piece.

[@damienivan]

+Koos Van der Wat I would say that people can really be a bunch of fucking retards, but that would be a huge insult to retards.

[@cessatiolux6250]

Because you're a physics teacher aren't you?

[@Anubis78250]

Didn't see the "bug" but the exhaust blast did look very curious, as if it kicks up plenty of dust, but does not actually disturb the surface.

[@Zeddemption]

They dislike that they will never come close to accomplishing anything of this value in their lives. And their attitude puts the last nail on that statement.

[@bahrom69]

Wow nice Hollywood effects

[@k.mirenburg6766]

Excellent work!

[@Cayden1988]

Great! Now off to locate those Prothean artefacts!

[@tonymontana1267]

Ever since KZbin upgraded it's whole system, many views have been diminshed greatly, the recently top comments or top comment section has been deleted, including alot of valid and interesting points.

[@bioluminosity]

seriously? exploring the universe is IMPORTANT. you just never know what life could be out there.

[@thekamotodragon]

Good job team. Get ready for next mission.

[@alanespeed16]

They got there one way or the other. Would like to have some MORE recent pix from the rover though.

[@Bluudworth]

This gives me all kinds of feels. Nerdgasm!

[@FutureMartian97]

993 people are getting punched for disliking this video.

[@lixiafan1976]

This is so cool!

[@DanielFenandes]

Wow. Thats really cool dude! I know we don't have this kind of technology today. It was kinda hard to send curiosity to Mars. Europa is much, much farther. What I ment was: It is not impossible (won't be).

[@PlaidmanUTube]

Humans: Yep, we did it, we spent billions of dollars and flew to Mars! Aliens: Oh really? That seems kind of a waste, there's nothing there, and it sounds like you could have fed half your planet with that money. Aliens: So what did you do when you got there? Humans: We played a Will.I.Am song. Aliens: So he's an honorable messenger from Earth? Humans: Well not exactly... Aliens: We have to go now...

[@kennyquinn5041]

Can confirm! This is exactly what it looked like when I landed on Mars!

[@canyonblue737]

That is actual photos taken from Curiosity that were then put in order and played back as a video at accelerated rate. That was the real thing.

[@exil3dlivecom]

Amazing times we live in.

[@Sgt_Glory]

Good comment. And about the bit about bombing - I'm getting so sick of some people commenting about space exploration being a waste of money. It's the most inane unbelievably short sighted view I have ever heard. When the knowledge and riches of other worlds wait for us, and we spend our time eating ourselves alive with endless conflict. I hope this mission will spark the hunger for exploration in some of us who want more for humanity and their own children.

[@RodrigoCFD]

So we've just documented our first extraterrestrial landing. I'm a witness of the history.

[@wenedugarcia]

Está muy bien hecho. Enhorabuena.

[@stellabella841]

Ok I was devastated when Armstrong passed, he was one of my heroes, but I don't think we should have so much pride in America for it. I'm American and I think he did something incredible, but the thing is, is that when Neil was up there on the Moon he wasn't thinking of his country but all of mankind. We didn't accomplish something as a country but as humans. It shouldn't make a difference what his nationality was, the point is he did something amazing as a human being, not an American...

[@clint2098]

Congrats Nasa!! We are all so proud!

[@manchegoruso]

look at it again and notice the altitude,they are mountains just like you would see on earth at that altitude,im saying, when it lands it does'nt seem to get any closer and dust is being lifted up ,and yes i know it landed on flat surface but the surface dont change from so high up to when it lands,it looks the same.

[@lholugcvljv]

bug is hard to see unless full screen and HD. Divide the screen into 9 squares, the bug is a dot near the corner of the upper left square and the middle square

[@ashinms]

I'm that way. I'm so damn scatter-brained when I'm sober.