Landing On Mars Like You've Never Seen It Before

Perseverance had 6 engineering cameras on it which were active during descent and landing to document the process in more detail than we'd ever seen before. The engineers had never seen their skycrane at work before since it was impossible to test on Earth.
In the end only 5 of the cameras worked, and the microphone failed to record anything during the descent. But the results are still spectacular!

[@freespam9236]

Sky Crane: Fly safe Scott Manley: Fly to victory Sky Crane: wait what?

[@gamertron0882]

.....

[@LaughingOrange]

It crashed minutes after successful deployment of its payload, as planned

[@grahamrankin4725]

Too bad it wasn't planned to land softly.

[@bielanski2493]

MY MANWICH!!

[@mihailkondov4773]

That's the moment when the sky crane realized there were in fact no other sky cranes behind the dune to help it land and it had been lied to.

[@pi1392]

Actually just seeing a real sky of another planet is just mind-blowing to me.

[@aqeelraja4750]

@Johnny Silverhand he said ‘another planet’ bruh 😐

[@anonpls9909]

I hope they send something to Venus again and we get to see more pictures from there

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

@@anonpls9909 I don't think we would see much in Venus weather

[@GalileoAV]

Agreed, there's something special about a foreign horizon.

[@thebigpicture2032]

Aqeel Raja I’m guessing Johnny is a flat earther. Complete with requisite misspelling.

[@crad12891]

Perseverance: "Tango Delta" *Detaching Cables* Skycrane: *Commencing YEET*

[@GH3_Posh]

I respect this comment. 🤣🤣🤣

[@thenasadude6878]

I wouldn't be surprised if the name of the fly away program was indeed YEET. To make it official they usually attach a very fake backronym to it, like Your External cranE Termination

[@dakotahrickard]

Makes me think of that scene with the tow cables in Empire Strikes Back. They should name the next Skycrane after the gunner flying with Wedge Antilles that shot the cable at the ATAT.

[@OGSontar]

Decoding..."They sent me to Mars, and all I got was this lousy parachute."

[@dsdy1205]

Everyone at Ames who spent hours upon hours on the world's largest supersonic parachute: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@user-el6ve2rl9b]

when scott manley no longer says "fly safe" you know shit got real

[@rawnukles]

dare to fly riskily

[@OrenTirosh]

Fly... safely away from Percy, please

[@whatislove127]

more like go become trash elsewhere :D

[@CzlowiekImadlo]

He didn't say "fly safe" because sky crane is meant to crash

[@Kevin_Street]

Exactly, CzlowiekImadlo. There's no safety for the sky crane, but at least we can wish it a glorious passage to Valhalla. Actually it just went off to rust somewhere.

[@shadowrunner2323]

I foresee Perseverance ASMR mixes in the future XD "Rover rolling 10 hours"

[@ccarson]

Hopefully without that high pitched tone.

[@xeigen2]

@@ccarson Should be easy to remove with a notch filter.

[@samarvora7185]

Rover roving 10 hours. There, fixed it.

[@THIS---GUY]

@@ccarson NASA already split the two up on the press conference lol

[@nobeltnium]

i knew i'm not the only one thought of this haha

[@-macabe3218]

This has got to be one of the most mindblowing piece of photography ever done in space science/exploration

[@-danR]

It makes the idea of boots on the ground all the more real again.

[@claudiusdunclius2045]

@@-danR Or, arguably, irrelevant and/or quaintly obsolete. ;-)

[@3rsullivan]

agree 100%. Just amazing. Seeing the descent stage hovering was just the coolest thing ever.

[@DrDeuteron]

better win a pulitzer

[@widicamdotnet]

The most mindblowing thing about it is that it took over 20 years of landing rovers on mars before they got around to sticking on a couple of "throwaway" camera modules to let the engineers evaluate their landing method, instead of just getting "it worked" or "it didn't work" as a feedback. At least Curiosity could have had all those cameras - it may have made less sense with the "bouncy castle" landing method of the twins in 2004.

[@menuly]

From above it's hard to tell if its 10,000 meters or 10 meters off the ground.

[@mk1st]

Yes I thought that too.

[@TheEvilmooseofdoom]

Nothing familiar for our eyes to get scale from.

[@dropsnooze5274]

ikr. Even though I roughly now the distances from further out, like what the radius of the landing site was, how far apart these craters are, it's just so hard if not impossible for me to grasp how far away they were in each situation. Yeah they call it on the radio but it's just so hard to comprehend

[@ares106]

These videos are like getting a guide in a museum. If you want you could just walk around and see the exhibits, but having a guide makes everything so much more interesting.

[@StevenKoehl]

The breakdown of the Mars landing I’ve eagerly been waiting on!

[@8bviews91]

my channel has the title of most viewed video.

[@Dr_Kenneth_Noisewater]

I haven’t really seen it until Scott Manley shows me all the stuff I missed.

[@x0myspace0x]

If you want a better breakdown and some in-depth discussions, be sure to watch the live stream that NASA did on Monday where they revealed all these images.

[@jimmyzhao9748]

The mission paradox, The Parachute let them down, the Sky-crane let them down, yet the landing was successful.

[@TheReaverOfDarkness]

Gravity let them down, but the Parachute and the Sky-crane held them aloft long enough to save them.

[@Noughmad]

Atlas gonna give you up, Parachute gonna let you down, Skycrane gonna fly around and desert you.

[@Vatsyayana87]

I believe something like that is NASAs internal moto.

[@CarlJohnson-xz1rs]

Of course, just like the rick astley paradox

[@yamdood1]

Niether the parachute let them down nor the sky crane the both did their job as expected the paradox is in your head that is incapable of comprending the science behind it.

[@classicfrog80]

The fact that it is the real footage and not CGI is so surreal!

[@consubandon]

We have entered the 'post-truth' age of exploration.

[@MrChuck78929]

Yeah sure it is. Just like the moon landing lol /s

[@TinyMoMosWorld]

And how could you possibly tell that from this video you puppet

[@kali6651]

@@TinyMoMosWorld Oh man you must be so woke. Tell me more about the flat earth, George Bush and 9/11.

[@invisghosty]

I refused to watch the other videos with this footage because I wanted an excited Scottish man to describe stuff about it to me!

[@million_heir5298]

Definitely everyone here

[@charimuvilla8693]

same

[@georgf9279]

I watched Astrums short and left a dislike because it was vertical video. Then I waited for a proper video. Thanks Scott.

[@Kineth1]

@@georgf9279 Thank you for supporting the eradication of vertical video.

[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

I need an excited Scott to commentate on the NFL Super Bowl to explain what's going on... would make the 4 hours fly by! 😁

[@RRFlash]

I didn't notice a lot of the things you mentioned in the videos... that's why ur videos are worth the wait

[@wictimovgovonca320]

Yes, I saw the same videos yesterday but got a lot more out of them now.

[@Hagop64]

I heard it was a successful landing and immediately thought "Cool, I'll just wait for Scott to post video with commentary on all the good bits for in depth coverage of the landing."

[@-danR]

Manley-rich explanation.

[@claudiusdunclius2045]

Not to take anything away from Scott’s cogent-as-usual coverage, but if you’d watched the JPL press briefing yesterday morning, you’d have learned all those things - except for the decoding of the parachute riddle! The JPL mission leaders discussed them in detail, and I’m sure Scott himself tuned in to listen before he did his video. What I’m really curious about is whether Scott figured out the parachute code himself, or had ‘inside information’ thru his contacts at JPL... Decoding it wasn’t trivial, or so it seems to me. ;-)

[@-danR]

@@claudiusdunclius2045 Did they explain the hydrazine exhaust visual paradox?

[@edwardhewer8530]

This is a good start to the year. Vision of the landing is incredible. The parachute opening while travelling faster than a rifle bullet. The deliberate positioning for the landing and the lowering down from the sky crane. You can imagine the tension on the JPL team leading up to this moment. What an epic achievement.

[@ianglenn2821]

Top anagrams for future people to misinterpret "dare-mighty-things": "Earths - mighty - ding" "Shiny - mirth - gadget" "My - great - hindsight" "Shagged - thirty - min" "Grind - meaty- thighs" omg there's so many haha!

[@Automatic-Diaphragm]

shagged thirty min lol

[@InventorZahran]

Are you figuring these out yourself, or using a computer program?

[@ianglenn2821]

@@InventorZahran haha well looking at the parachute code, all I saw were the "shagged" possibilities, but I used a program for the rest :)

[@ianglenn2821]

@mug wump nice ones, plus "mighty threading" is so appropriate for the parachute!

[@arnabbiswasalsodeep]

Grind meaty thighs. Yess. Ofc

[@spudicous]

Fun fact, the terrain matching navigation system on perseverance is derived from the TERNAV system on the BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile.

[@guy_in_ashopping_cart-sfs967]

atleast somthing good came out of cruise missiles

[@spudicous]

@@guy_in_ashopping_cart-sfs967 I assume you mean besides all of the cool explosions.

[@EstorilEm]

@@guy_in_ashopping_cart-sfs967 they got a lot of work done in Iraq 👌

[@ArDiaN_Music]

@@EstorilEm He said "something good", there is not good things in wars

[@morerightrudder9742]

@@ArDiaN_Music You mean beside being a catalyst for technological advancement?

[@anthonyc5039]

So if I forget my phone charger, there is Finally an extra USB port on Mars. 🙏

[@Forest_Fifer]

Mark watney will be able to plug into it without having to rewire anything

[@oijqwoijdowiqjdqw]

Just don't forget to bring adapter to the latest usb-mini-micro-cxyz your telephone uses

[@enterprisesoftwarearchitect]

Or maybe there’s an extra one in the Tesla Roadster

[@frommeslaemmchen]

and it's powered by an RTG...i wonder how many times you can charge your phone with it

[@KevinSmith-ys3mh]

@@frommeslaemmchen Well, based on my recent views & reading this RTG is rated at 110W electric output at launch day. Fuel is pellets of Plutonium-238 with a 74 year 1/2 life (I recalled) vs bomb or reactor grade Pu-239 of 24,000 year 1/2 life, so much greater heat released per day. Assuming a constant linear system output drop over time, it may have 55W output in 74 years, maybe 25W in 150 years, 12W in 225 years? I seriously doubt your cellphone will last that long.😆😆 Hopefully it will be still powering an adjoining educational display at the Marsopolis children's museum by then! 🤔

[@drywinddotnet]

SkyCrane flying away playing DARE . . . "Don't . . . Don't you want me"

[@davidallen111]

Scott does a much better job editing and presenting NASA's raw footage of the Perseverance descent and landing than any other I have seen. Thank you Scott Manley.

[@AndriyVasylenko]

They missed an opportunity to do the most epic rickroll ever with that chute riddle.

[@parallaxperception4971]

ayy

[@MichaelOnines]

B E S U R E TO D R I N K Y O U R O V A L T I N E

[@terryboyer1342]

@@MichaelOnines killroy was here

[@TomLeg]

It would be wrong for a parachute to say, "Never gonna let you down"

[@brianhaygood183]

But the chute did let them down!

[@fastindy]

"What matters is the amount of thrust, not the amount of fire and flame and spectacle." You really had me going there, Scott. For a few years I thought you knew what you were talking about.

[@Jesse__H]

eh?

[@ppsarrakis]

@@Jesse__H I think it's a joke

[@GameHut]

Scott - pretty sure they showed two different cameras angles, not one, for the parachute opening, as you can tell by the shadows on the cables and position of the sun.

[@Jon1010]

And the markings on the chute are rotated in the two different views...

[@jeggehek6934]

@@Jon1010 yeah it’s really clear that it’s 2 angles

[@jimbobmp78]

yup the parachute is 2 diff angles and i swear i wathed the nasa press conf. were they played the sounds from the microphone as it came down.

[@wulf2121]

They indeed said during the press conference that there were 3 chute look up cameras, but only 2 of them worked, one failed. So, they probably showed us both views.

[@CodingSecrets]

@@wulf2121 Yes - I was just pointing out that Scott said there was only one view (at the start of the video)

[@Chainsaw-ASMR]

10:40 Scott explains the code like it's nothing and my head explodes!

[@snuffeldjuret]

yeah, it didnt look very intuitive imo.

[@honglianglim8637]

11:01 Scott: And the direction becomes obvious. Me: What the heck is ERAD ?

[@zombieaerospace5005]

E-RAD: electronic radiation Or I just might be hight too

[@absurdengineering]

E, rad stuff bro :)

[@Kineth1]

Maybe it's a word scramble? We need to READ!

[@Edax_Royeaux]

According to Wikipedia, ERAD is Endoplasmic-reticulum-associated protein degradation.

[@CleverClothe]

"Who is LEON?"

[@Badgermatt-nc5nr]

Tommorw, on the Mars microphone we will hear, tap tap tap, "ummm is this thing on?" LOL

[@RingingResonance]

Hey, listen up down there! That thing is called an elevator, not a bathroom!

[@Edax_Royeaux]

Hope we don't here that hum from the movie Mission to Mars, otherwise a giant tornado will spin the rover to death.

[@MattMcIrvin]

"test 1... 2... 3... sibilance... sibilance..."

[@notmenotme614]

"ERAD? Whats ERAD"? "Dunno, but I've found this funny looking shopping trolley"

[@mtpaley1]

@@notmenotme614 No it will be 'tap tap' - nothing. It takes too long to say 'you are on mute'

[@jonepomuk]

They should hire Scott for NASAs PR department. This is so much more informative and entertaining than the official channels...

[@techman2553]

Idea for next video: How will the thin Mars atmosphere effect the sound that is picked up by the microphones ? ( pitch, volume, etc )

[@vintatsh]

The sky crane just booking it after it successfully dropped the rover is the coolest thing I've seen in a while. That is a job well done.

[@remondx8880]

Yeah it was fucking cool mate

[@tonyholm77]

Same here, the whole operation is really impressive but when it cut the cables and flew away i lost it, looks so freaking cool!

[@davidharrison7014]

Where are the cables cut? Next to the rover or next to the sky crane? And if they're cut next to the crane, would that mean having the Perserverance Rover dragging the cables around every time it drives along the Martian surface?

[@tonyholm77]

@@davidharrison7014 they are cut by the rover, you can actually see the cut on one of the early pictures.

[@Velodictorian]

The mic mechanically didn’t fail during EDL. The recording just didn’t happen because of some software error. They fixed it and the mic was used to capture that wind gust

[@trimeta]

As the Manly Scot himself quipped on Twitter, the computer handling microphone input was running Linux, so of course it had audio issues.

[@DrDeuteron]

I'm glad I didn't write that piece of software

[@davidharrison7014]

Yet the first working microphone on another planet was during one of the Soviet Venera missions on Venus. You can hear banging and the loud drilling into the Venusian soil onboard.

[@trimeta]

@Game Over Nope. While Perseverance's main computers run specialized operating systems, the DSU, a specialized computer-on-module which collects and processes all the EDL data (the six cameras and one microphone), runs Linux.

[@Misack8]

@@trimeta They just runned alsamixer and then everything was fine.

[@LouseGrouse]

Hearing the wind on another planet is just so amazing

[@brandonm30]

Huygens also had a microphone and recorded titans wind.

[@dantreadwell7421]

I know. Hearing that over the mechanical sound was just... yea. I don't have words.

[@carlrossi7989]

I think the gentleman who once said [long before there was a JPL] “Far better, to dare mighty things....” would have loved watching this.

[@jonathanmvkhai]

“The first USB 3.0 on Mars.”

[@Charonupthekuiper]

Damn, I haven’t even got it on Earth.

[@fensoxx]

I wonder how many times they had to flip the plug during assembly

[@MattNeufy]

@@fensoxx at least 3 times guaranteed

[@r3dp9]

@@fensoxx More likely, they looked at the plug 3 times before trying to plug it in.

[@ikitclaw7146]

yes and whats your point? we all heard him say it.

[@milolouis]

DID IT AGAIN!!! Best space commentator on earth.

[@nolanwestrich2602]

He'd be better as a space commenter in space.

[@lorenzo42p]

definitely best. very good presentation of information

[@Mohawks_and_Tomahawks]

5:48 "And that was better than any TouchDown in the SuperBowl!" It was also 100% more TouchDowns than the KC Chiefs got too!

[@Kyrelel]

You might want to double-check that maths.

[@Mohawks_and_Tomahawks]

@@Kyrelel Sure, let's do it together... Perseverance touched down 1 time on Mars. KC Chiefs did not even get 1 touchdown in SuperBowl 55. 1-0 = 100% more. Now you know...

[@Nigerian_Prince_]

@@Kyrelel LOL, The Chiefs didn't get a TD. Mars rover did. His math is correct.

[@Gas_Station_Tampons]

I loved every one of those TD's in the SuperBowl 31-9 😂 KC 💩 TB12 🐐

[@Mohawks_and_Tomahawks]

@@Gas_Station_Tampons Agreed 🍻

[@MrBraleysWildClassroom]

You know it’s a good video when you’re inspired to run to the white board to prepare a new lesson for math class tomorrow. Learning binary, math mystery, and Mars 2020?!? Let’s go!

[@tayzer22]

Absolutely Amazing. "Live" HD footage of a probe landing on Mars. Galileo would be speechless.

[@anatoliy333]

Glory to Galileo!

[@liberty0758]

Of course he would, seeing all that CGI bullshit they're presenting as real.

[@falcoperegrinus82]

@@liberty0758 What's your best evidence this is fake?

[@ThatGuy-sd3zl]

“And that was better than any touch down in the Super Bowl” Didn’t know physicists could flex that much 💪🏻.

[@SuperAWaC]

It's really unnecessary and just comes off as a pseudo-intellectual "I'm too smart for sportsball" statement.

[@ikitclaw7146]

When physics flex's you know it, just look at nukes lol

[@Terminator484]

@@SuperAWaC Those who can't think or do anything useful, waste their lives playing & watching sports. :P

[@SuperAWaC]

​@@Terminator484 i can't tell if you're being serious or not but if you are being serious that's one of the most brainless statements i've seen all week. if you're not being serious then good job

[@brianschiff35]

Next Mars Rover, let’s add a speaker 🔈 to play La Cucaracha as it drives around.

[@floydlooney6837]

Speaker is a great idea, how does the Mars atmosphere affect the known sounds it plays.

[@Anvilshock]

Better play Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call". You know, in case of ACK ACK ACK.

[@johnpooky84]

If you're going to have a speaker on a rover on Mars, the rover must be named Rick Roller, and the speaker must play "Never Gonna Give You Up".

[@GunGryphon]

The first audio back from Mars: "Hi, we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty."

[@squidgelad1983]

This is nice

[@davidm.4670]

aaargghhh telephone spam/scam noooooo

[@jnelchef]

Whenever something happens in space flight, my first question is how long until the Scott Manley video.

[@kenjiokura7601]

I also like how at ~5:29 and at ~6:27 we can see Perseverance lower the back wheels to prepare for landing.

[@jabbawok944]

I know what that microphone is going to pick up..... “Ack ack ack ack”

[@KDH-br6hy]

Lol

[@Schroefdoppie]

🤣

[@NoName-zn1sb]

Shall..We...Play...A...Game...

[@dantreadwell7421]

🤣🤣🤣

[@dantreadwell7421]

Don't run, we are your friends...

[@TheDrakenZ]

It's pretty incredible that everything being currently sent to mars, will one day be the hosts of mars archeological dig sites in the future.

[@ryanhamstra49]

Should have closed with “drive safe!”

[@8bviews91]

@@scrambles1944 my channel has the title of most viewed video.

[@8bviews91]

my channel has the title of most viewed video.

[@theairaccumulator7144]

@@8bviews91 how old are you

[@Tjalve70]

Or he should have ended with "Thanks for flying safe!".

[@Kineth1]

@@theairaccumulator7144 When i see an account spamming the same comment like that, i just go through and report all of their (identical) comments as spam.

[@Publius7619]

Scott - It's a very simple code Me - *can't figure it out*

[@hexagonist23]

I figured it was binary code but didn't know it was formatted that way

[@wictimovgovonca320]

It looked like binary to me, but I was too lazy to pause the video and try

[@johnrex5342]

Thanks for being brave enough to admit that. I thought about alphabet positions in binary, but what threw me off was the 7 bits per letter when 5 would suffice. It's only "simple" once it's pointed out to you. Plus there are large chunks that don't represent anything except the orientation of the chute (I think). Still pretty cool, though.

[@Publius7619]

@@johnrex5342 Cool, thanks

[@NemoConsequentae]

Like many things, it's easy when you know how...

[@ClemensAlive]

Mars is the coldes hot looking place in our solar system.

[@currentcomentor1026]

Yeh it looks allot like the empty quater of the arabian dessert.

[@5Andysalive]

That's a very Earthophobic point of view. The Titanians go to Mars for summer holiday!

[@e1123581321345589144]

@@5Andysalive Europeans too

[@TheMartieno]

Does that make jupiter the hottest cold looking place ?

[@GabrielGABFonseca]

"Fly to victory" is an interesting way to tell a machine to commit suicide, but okay.

[@claudiusdunclius2045]

On the contrary... has been done frequently in military history! As in, “Glorious victory will be ours, troops! Go take that hill!!” Wonder if Scott was riffing off that theme...?

[@henningg.1687]

it is not specified whose victory it is flying towards..

[@MarsJenkar]

Well, he couldn't exactly say "fly safe" now, could he?

[@pizzajona]

@@claudiusdunclius2045 that’s what I got out of it

[@Woody2Shoe]

Whatever nerdy negative nancy.

[@TopHatJackStudios]

This entire sequence is absolutely breathtaking. What a time to be alive!

[@benistingray6097]

I was so impressed how stable it was hovering there and deploying the rover!

[@02markcal]

Do you think China will land its rover without problems in a few months?

[@matthewerwin4677]

@@02markcal China will spread the virus on Mars.

[@02markcal]

@@matthewerwin4677 I hope they follow the USA and sterilize their rover.

[@KDH-br6hy]

@@02markcal me too

[@incognitoburrito6020]

@@matthewerwin4677 Assuming China's telling the telling the truth about their numbers, the US is the one you gotta worry about bringing the virus anywhere. We have over 300 times the positive cases they ever did.

[@Owl90]

I feel so very fortunate to be able to watch this.

[@MyTeslaTrek]

I always say out loud with you, “Fly Safe!” But, this time you fooled me! 🤣

[@Misack8]

Same

[@danieltaylor5231]

Tell me someone said "Detach cables" and someone else responded "Cables detached!"

[@Imbeachedwhale]

You know whoever wrote the code made some form of internal joke about that.

[@Charmlethehedgehog]

@@Imbeachedwhale in the comments somewhere, for sure

[@alantownsend5468]

I'm racking my brain here... what movie is that from?!

[@Imbeachedwhale]

@@alantownsend5468 Empire Strikes Back, snowspeeders vs. AT-ATs

[@andrewdeering6520]

@@Imbeachedwhale ohhh, I get it now!

[@luckyrail23]

This is amazing, As a person working for KSP once said..: Making History.

[@pizzajona]

“Fly to victory!” - Skycrane crashes

[@NemoConsequentae]

Killing it's arch-enemy, that area of the unblemished surface of Mars.

[@rarewhiteape]

They obviously loaded a Spectrum emulator playing Lemmings into the thing.

[@_TheDudeAbides_]

As it crashes down a little martian bug looks up to the sky and says: "Oh no, not again!"

[@NemoConsequentae]

@@_TheDudeAbides_ Only if Arthur Dent was working on the program!

[@tactileslut]

"The real science will start to soon." Love ya, man.

[@Confuseddave]

9:30 While I'm sure you're right that the skycrane doesn't have much in the way of guidance, at the press conference they pointed out that it can't just shoot off in any direction (or straight up), it needs to specifically pitch either north or south so that the thrusters (with their 1000º exhausts) are never pointed directly at the rover.

[@Kineth1]

This is an excellent opportunity to make a pun confusing thermal degrees with arc degrees, but I can't think of one :/

[@claudiusdunclius2045]

Right. I think at the presser they said the rover is pointed to the southeast. The skycrane departed to the northwest, as you can see in the annotated MRO image at 1:02.

[@junrosamura645]

Yes, that sky crane flying away also reminded of that drop ship from aliens.

[@Gallyga]

The clarity in pictures and videos we are now getting from devices sent to other planets is amazing.

[@memespeech]

better quality adds to the feeling of presence, which makes these shots surreal

[@ioresult]

"Thanks for flying us, Sky Crane! Fly... to victory!" Haha!

[@paulhaynes8045]

Glad I've lived to see this. Makes up a little for the long wait after Apollo. Thanks Scott.

[@95rav]

Or did you see it? All the retards will come out from under their rocks with conspiracy theories about how this is was all faked by Kubric before he died.

[@Jesse__H]

@@95rav Try not to let that ruin it for you. Better to occupy your mind with this exceptional human achievement than the tiny, loud minority who decry it. We don't owe them any of our precious attention.

[@davey3765]

Another excellent video Scott thanks!

[@ThompPL1]

5:27 . . . stunning color contrasts of reds/oranges looking down & blues/whites looking up !

[@poneill65]

"Thanks for flying us Sky-Crane! Fly,... to victory???? C'mon, "...To Infinity and Beyond" was just begging to be deployed there!

[@mvmmotovlogmusic2815]

Thank You Scott. Whenever something significant happens in space exploration, it’s not complete until you cover it. 👍🏻

[@tjairicciardi9747]

Another amazing video, thanks Scott !!

[@ansuuz]

Thank you for great video Scott

[@runningray]

Mars is a beautifully quiet place. I can imagine standing there and just listening to the wind blow by.

[@stevencoardvenice]

You'd probably start losing your mind though after a couple hours, from sensory deprivation

[@dantreadwell7421]

I don't know, being able to appreciate and enjoy the stark beauty of things like that, the emptyness of a desert, the dead of winter, it has an appeal.

[@Kyrelel]

If you were standing there, you would be in a spacesuit. If you were in a spacesuit you would not only hear the wind but feel it as well. If, as is likely to happen, the high-velocity particles would tear into your suit, so you could smell and taste it as well. As you would also have a visor, and could see the wind patterns, you would have experienced the wind with all 5 senses. Not what I would call "sensory deprivation" Zoom-classes just aren't cutting it :/

[@stevencoardvenice]

@@Kyrelel What are you talking about bro? You wouldn't hear anything inside the helmet, except your own breathing. There are no sounds of nature, and you would barely feel any wind at all. Mars has only 2 percent of earth's atmosphere. And there are no high velocity particles that you would feel

[@5301abhi]

I really though the sky was going to be darker and more orange, but now I realize that Mars’ color comes from the soil and unless there is a huge dust storm, it would look quite similar to earths. It’s really cool!

[@ronwesilen4536]

I think that's not correct to be fair. It looks blue because of the dust the rockets blew up. When it settles i think it will be a lot more orange

[@MattMcIrvin]

The color balance in these images is, as Scott said, all over the place. But the air usually seems to be dusty and thin enough that it's some shade of tan most of the time, dominated by dust rather than Rayleigh scattering. The sky color does vary a lot. I think the blue that Scott mentioned in the images looking up at the sky crane is from Mie scattering, which is by dust particles but very small ones, like smoke.

[@chrismills8251]

Thanks for doing those unique stabilized shots too. I've been waiting for more footage and you made it even better!

[@jbjuggler]

Thanks for decoding the parachute! Nice to see them having fun...

[@Appolonius10]

Good ending Scott, yes that sky crane deserves a lot of recognition. It’s a beautiful machine that served a noble purpose.

[@mtpaley1]

It lives on in Valhalla

[@alihouadef5539]

THE SOUND man, more of that please.

[@clavo3352]

Nice one Scott! Thank YOu for that illuminating narrated video of the 2021 Mars landing of the Perseverance Rover, and its Skycrane maneuver.

[@ImmortalInflames]

Brilliant video, I dearly hope you will make more videos about Perseverance when you have the time!!

[@JohnFleshman]

I saw that pattern on the parachute I thought it looked like a bar code like on groceries.

[@hjalfi]

Personally, I prefer to think that DARE was a reference to the long-running British comic series, _Dan Dare,_ in which the main character visited Mars often, and saved it several times.

[@godless-clump-of-cells]

Place your comma inside the low line like this "_Dan Dare,_" and, voila! _Dan Dare,_

[@desmond-hawkins]

The first thing I thought of was "DARE to resist…" 😐

[@hjalfi]

@@godless-clump-of-cells Huh. Cheers. Of course, now the comma is italicised, which offends my pedant's soul.

[@hjalfi]

@@Iam2sheds Dan Dare doesn't know it, he doesn't know it, he doesn't know it, but I liked the Mekon.

[@ccarson]

The first thing I thought of was Dare Iced Coffee.

[@alexandercarder2281]

It’s good to hear Scott happy

[@Swimfinz]

Great podcast, thank you Scott!

[@TheJttv]

1:13 "they only show us one camera" ........uhhhhh, Scott those two views have the parachute and rigging in different orientations. That is two cameras.

[@RiksVids]

That's what I thought, and couldn't work out why Scott said there was only one

[@Kineth1]

If they lost control to point a camera, it's pretty much useless, maybe we'll get a constant stream of sky shots? Disclaimer: This is just speculation.

[@TheJttv]

@@Kineth1 the EDL cams were all fixed cameras.

[@garethstevens3537]

I believe there were three cameras, and one failed, hence two videos of the parachute..

[@phunkydroid]

There were 3 cameras. One failed. In the press conference, they only showed the view from one. The other video was made available later.

[@stevierv22]

Should have coded "fly safe" xD

[@charlesballard5251]

I came to you for Kerbal instruciton, but your real space vids are magnificent!!!!!! Don't ever stop.

[@thedawkturr4481]

Dango Telda sounds like a very passable Star Wars character.

[@NemoConsequentae]

Tango Delta. A river area where Gomaz & Morticia like to dance.

[@yehat17]

Tango Delta means TD In this case, touchdown!!!!

[@suwisiame]

ITS TANGO DELTA

[@myblujl7503]

Anyone else feel sorry for sky crane? Once its successfully completed its mission, it was just ordered to "bugger off and die"....

[@jessek8114]

Or heat shield or the orbital component that stayed behind.

[@Wordsmiths]

My thought (and feel) exactly. Why not have it arc safely away and when it's a safe distance off (maybe a four-second acceleration burn), go into "try to set down any old place" mode. Even if it runs out of fuel too high and belly-flops hard, it won't vaporize and leave a crater like it would at re-entry velocity. And it's more likely to keep the wreckage in one limited area, easier to salvage it in the future (most likely for the alloys and maybe the wiring harness). Plus it's another experiment: did the sky crane manage a close-approach landing? At what point did it fail? How dry can you run those hydrazine tanks when actually performing in Martian gravity/atmosphere? Maybe next time...

[@jtdHenk]

I watched the NASA video thinking Scott Manley wil analyse the crap out off it!

[@frios011]

America does it again! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

[@flashladderacrobat]

Best thing to happen this year so far , keep it coming JPL and NASA!

[@kwichzwellbreck3567]

Such a great start!! Those scientist at NASA and JPL are just awesome!

[@lrees6412]

Your video is broken down so well and discussed about the best on the internet that's why I subscribe to your Channel

[@dave_in_florida]

better than the NASA press conference

[@christopherrippel2463]

You did a great job with this footage! Thanks.

[@aw8079]

Thanks for the tour. Was in depth and brief. Awesome channel.

[@Space_Maniac]

last time i was this early you woke up at 2 Am to tell us about how SN4 exploded

[@pulesjet]

Yet again, I seen the First Man in Space. First Man on the Moon. I need the first Man on Mars before my soon coming END GAME. Help me out here people. Let me realize that idea .

[@guy_in_ashopping_cart-sfs967]

how old are you?

[@pulesjet]

@@guy_in_ashopping_cart-sfs967 63 years old. Rased a Military Brat. Did my military time and have lived in four countries. I know enough to know this country is FOOKED is they don't fix this today.

[@pulesjet]

@@guy_in_ashopping_cart-sfs967 At one time in the USAF I Provided three years of Communications to the Shuttle. My last day at Patrick AFB the Challenger did the bad thing. That was screwed up. My vary last day on base. I watched it happen from my work stations parking lot.

[@guy_in_ashopping_cart-sfs967]

@@pulesjet damn i wish i was there

[@goodok3]

@@pulesjet Hold on.

[@ufootje]

as usual, awesome video Scott!!

[@sanjayrshinde]

Excellent explanation. Thanks Scott.

[@ThatSlowTypingGuy]

"That spiral data cable there, that is ethernet." I mean, if it's not broke.

[@ctrlaltdel02]

We live in a time, where everyday things, is good enought, to send acros space to another planet (ethernet and USB). But we do not pay attention for them in our lives and take them for granted.

[@brianhaygood183]

Imagine a guy looking through eBay and thinking, "yeah, I should probably get the one for $1.99 instead of the $0.58 one this time.

[@wictimovgovonca320]

@@brianhaygood183 they are probably gold plated Monster cables at $89.99

[@frenchshark2000]

We should have called it "tether-net"

[@siotsoni9854]

@@ctrlaltdel02 You vastly underestimate the sheer amount of effort that has gone into making Ethernet and (to a lesser extent) USB as reliable and useful as they are now. Ethernet is space age technology that has made it's way into (and out of, recently) our computers. Wi-Fi is similarly nuts (hell, it's surprising anybody gets any signal at all in most cities with the sheer amount of interference Wi-Fi has to work through and with). These technologies aren't just "good enough". They are frequently so good that it's *very* difficult to do any better than they do.

[@SithPackAbs]

So cool! Thank you, Scott! The two downvotes are from Martians who have to clean-up all the trash from the heat shield and drop-ship.

[@TheNormalUniverse]

Fitting commemoration of the historic event. Thanks Scott.

[@Renagade5150]

Great job on this video analysis Scott!