Twelve Months in Two Minutes; Curiosity's First Year on Mars

Here is a rover's eye view of driving, scooping and drilling during Curiosity's first year on Mars, August 2012 through July 2013.

[@dwcrabtree]

Didn't see Mat Damon anywhere, but very interesting video.

[@krn2487]

dave C and no Bowie song...😞

[@bobilondon01]

because he left

[@daemoniumvenator7099]

You mean Mark Watney

[@Virtuoso80]

They should have put a space monster in one frame just to troll people.

[@juanpablodo12345678]

This is NASA stupid, they cant troll

[@starduck8014]

Virtuoso80 lol

[@physicsexploiter5937]

+Juan Pablo Guzman yeah they did back in 1969

[@ayashin19]

Troll who

[@ayashin19]

They are so obsessed with dirt nothing would survive on that planet for more than 2 days lol aliens please

[@morgmordcam8933]

you lot are SO critical! why is it so unbelievable that man can send something to another planet? and what's the problem if a picture is in black and white? the thing is on mars!!!! taking pictures!! 100 years ago, people never even dreamed things like this would be happening! surely that's a big enough achievement!! and those who don't like the fact that money is spent on space travel, well there are always going to be those that don't agree with it, but there must be a HUGE amount that are behind the exploration (like me!) and think its a worthwhile investment, all of this is amazing! well done NASA!

[@1991USsoldier]

Well done indeed. There are so many things we still don't know about our own solar system, yet some of us are convinced that it's a more worthwhile investment to shower so called "celebrities" with fame and admiration.

[@morgmordcam8933]

well said Ps3Junkie!!

[@1991USsoldier]

thank you. :) What I was getting at is this.. If we invested our money that currently is spent on things like another way overpriced toilet seat for the white house, or if Lady Gaga agreed to donate half of her next five paychecks to Nasa, the things we could do for space exploration.. The current mega millions indiana lottery jackpot is 400,000,000 dollars.. Bill Gates probably looks at that the way we view a quartet under our driver's seat in our car. We have the means, its just in the wrong hands.

[@pridakfan253]

Yeah some conspiracy theorists just can't stop at the moon landings, they have to try and take away what little glory NASA has left.

[@felondadog]

+Morg Mordcam It is all we want to see,but sadly every evidence we are presented points to a faked footage,shot in a desert in the US.All this small black and white photos and bright glowing atmosphere doesn't point to anything but Earth's landscape and a simple trick to cover the colors is to present it as black and white.That's not even 'Fisheye' lol,it is called wide angle lens-what else to say.Does this look like to you like 12 months or more like 12 hours.Let's face the facts.If this was in court Nasa would lose.

[@CcSmokecC]

Wow, incredible images... It's so awesome yet frightening at the same time. Curiosity is literally the only thing there moving. All alone, complete isolation from everything. This video kind of made me get the chills, but still so amazing.

[@SRC267]

I went to Mars yesterday.... in my dream. One day, it will become a reality. Dreams come true - True Story

[@caturlifelive]

Can you tell us about your current sleep dream?

[@opethium647]

yeahhh u still here?

[@TonyAKA30]

It really amazes me that this is actual footage of a robot on our neighbouring planet.

[@_S.H_]

what amazes me as well is how each of these frames took NASA days or maybe weeks to plan next move, execute, wait for the transmission back and forth, receive confirmation and a new image in several minutes.

[@OfficialAmazing]

at 1:08 it looks like an astronaut

[@adamhelmke1295]

No

[@kinglakaka]

yeah but no

[@spaceymcnutz4216]

It is amazing to know that man is currently exploring another world out there.. Just awsome thanks to everyone at NASA and JPL.You are doing an amazing job.

[@MrPokerblot]

Amazing stuff-when you think of it, its inspiring

[@embracethemystery]

Thanks JPL! - keep these great videos and images coming. (Pay no attention the bizarre comments that only serve to demonstrate some people's involuntary need to expose their ignorance in a public forum.)

[@lisvender]

Amazing. Absolutely amazing. We have borne witness to one of mankind's greatest achievements, and everybody's still talking about Donald Trump

[@zembolixhdzembolixhd6492]

lol

[@thesafteycrazycuber]

+gnarmad the only thing being faked is the hatred for trump

[@RoM1il]

+gnarmad It is not faked don't worry

[@thesafteycrazycuber]

RoM1il actually it has been seen statistically that most people agree with his policies but his brash mannerisms is what deters many from favoring him

[@SarahConnerArms]

+D Seidens (blacksilk) statistically that is rubbish. The kind of people that agree with his one liners (they are not policies!!!!!!!!! They are performances) are the kind of people who think his brash manner is a good thing - "He'll kick the government's ass! Yeah!". P.S. You are all DOOMED in the USA - If Trump gets in "Idiocracy" will come true and USA will never recover.

[@Radiusthethird]

Thanks for putting this online!

[@mchase4]

Guys there is an alien at 1:08!!! Look at the shadow!

[@fernandesbrandon1]

Naw ! Thats just Sergio Ramos's ball, it reached Mars.

[@IAmMrBrightside1]

Living through such a great moment in history is an honor as far as I'm concerned.

[@truvelocity]

The sun on mars is strange.

[@gogetasaiyan5756]

SIMPLY AMAZING!! NASA has given the people the chance to view the real photographs from Mars.Isn't that cool to view Mars on your PC and the pictures taken by Curiosity just on KZbin. I liked it very much.

[@Cohonees]

1:08 shadow of PERSON in space suit WALKING!!!!

[@marcviej.5635]

why do you capitalize PERSON and WALKING lol?

[@Cohonees]

In order to emphasize so that PEOPLE don't miss out :D

[@Pow3llMorgan]

It's the 'head' - a boom with a bunch of different cameras and sensors. Well a shadow of it.

[@skittlegurl123]

Amazing that we just watched a video from MARS on a smart-whatever! Seriously the things we accomplish never cease to amaze me!

[@DxQx]

So simple but yet full of questions.

[@SouthwesternEagle]

I don't know what's more amazing. That this was taken over 100 million kilometers away, or that the horizon is such a short distance.

[@frasercain]

Curiosity does have a color camera, and many of the images it takes are in full color. They look great. But scientists like to use b/w cameras because they provide better science. You can put different filters in front of the camera to reveal different wavelengths of light.

[@opethium647]

Hello verified person from 7 years ago

[@jenniegloverable]

Absolutely stunning, can't wait to show my students

[@Viper550ful]

Depends on what your using as a relay station, but roughly around 2mb/sec downlink. The amount of time earth can communicate with the rover is limited however. They plan a lot in advance.

[@sinahed4562]

Fantastic job

[@whendis.roberts6817]

Thank You for the very interesting video footage of the robot on Mars. I am going to show it to my Grandbabies and show them what is possable. Very cool......Thank You. Sincerely. Ms. Whendi

[@blondefan1]

Man I really don't understand how anyone could not be fascinated by this. I know it's just a video of curiosity collecting samples, but these are the first steps to traveling to habitable planets. I only wish I could live to step on another planet without a suit on and to breathe the air of another planet.

[@ammarsaeed8760]

Tons of congratulations to NASA and all other associated team of engineers, scientists, researchers to this mission for this incredible achievement!

[@ArchenemyLegend]

I wish it was more clear to see farther in the distance but still cool as hell

[@AbScLaW1GT]

Beautiful video,Martian surface is quite bizarre. Best part was how the sun passed the horizon and set with complete darkness. Amazing.

[@altform-nv9sv]

No samples from Curiosity are coming back, but a new rover is being designed to collect and cache samples that can be returned. Look up "Mars2020". It's builds on the design of Curiosity with a new sampling and caching system. Good question.

[@alexhornig2277]

Congrats guys! I can't wait till next gen plans for space!

[@forestsoceansmusic]

: D "What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?" Classic computer 'glitch' or 'bug'. Douglas Adams was a very clever writer.

[@digitalsketchguy]

Travelling all those miles for amazing b/w film of the Red Planet. Thanx guys!

[@harpfully]

You think Curiosity is only equipped with one b/w camera and nothing more?

[@digitalsketchguy]

Carolyn P. Well, um..this is a b/w video release from NASA. Maybe they felt it had a more pathe news aesthetic than full HD colour. :-P

[@mikey7257]

I know the curiosity has been scrutinized a lot and i agree with some of the criticism, however i still think its really cool that we were able to do this and seeing the surface of mars like that is amazing.

[@Larrythebassman]

Thanks fellas & ladies _ that's was Brilliant

[@TheOspanzer]

"If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good” Dr Suess said it best, we need to open the door and step through it, we should explore and set our feet upon other worlds." This fisheye view is just the beginning of what we can do. And doing is what we do best" That qoute is from me.

[@1GTX1]

This is navigation camera and has 1 Megapixel, they also have color cameras

[@ajs42350]

Because of the extremely thin atmosphere, sound doesn't have enough of a medium to travel through to really make any noise to speak of. Mars is pretty much dead silent as a result, even with audio recording devices.

[@forestsoceansmusic]

Thanks for that. "Dent? Arthur J. Dent? You're a jerk Den...wait, haven't I done you before?" Sorry, couldn't resist the reference to Douglas Adams' great series because of your username. ; )

[@GueroGhetto209]

I was expecting to see a pretty narley sand storm or something but looks pretty calm to me ...

[@jackhooper2839]

Oh, props to you. It was a subtle reference. :P

[@aleramone23]

It IS amazing, thousands of things could have go wrong but here it is, taking samples healty. I find sad that Mars is so cold, dry and dead. imagine a younger mars with liquid water on surface and a lot friendlier with us. sorry for my english.

[@myopicvision]

I think it is amazing to see the surface of Mars. It does look a lot like Nevada though. Almost expect to see a Joshua tree peeking up here and there!

[@EmperorLjas]

I suppose having the hazard avoidance camera in black and white increases it's reliability.

[@andriusdaraskevicius]

I totally agree. This is a big step forward.

[@Oldbmwr100rs]

This camera is the forward hazard avoidance camera, that's also why it's not in color.

[@MountedDragoon]

I remember Sagan talking about watching TV through the eyes of a Mars Rover in Cosmos. Not many people are interested in that, unfortunately.

[@olufsen98]

@baja150st The rover runs on nuclear power. There are two older rovers on mars as well that run on solar power, that works very well since there's no atmosphere on mars to reflect the light, but the scientists still chose to go with nuclear power for various reasons.

[@fingazala]

It's the head on the manipulator arm from the rover. Look how it moves with the arm. The sun at the time of the photo, was directly above. Thus casting a shadow downwards and not at the length of the arm.

[@Scuzza16]

And light red shifts in space depending on how close and object is to us. We can see this with distant galaxies. Objects that are moving away from us have a blue shift, while objects coming toward us have a red shift, might be the other way around.

[@jmw1500]

I would have liked to see a version of this in color. The lighting on mars is very different. :)

[@rileyw9104]

Videos black and white just in case if anything weird is caught on tape it is barley visible.

[@Gerelos]

Really is amazing, a year's worth of photos from the surface of Mars. I can't wait to see what else we can accomplish in my lifetime! I hope this budget cut to NASA is very temporary. =]

[@LyndonLaRoucheArchive]

Is the mountain in the distance being obscured by dust or cloud vapor

[@Orgazmicsausages]

They need back and side cameras so you can see around you never know something could be following it

[@lateastronaut8579]

This is so amazing! Humanity exploring another planet. God this is amazing and so beautiful.

[@_S.H_]

and what's more beautiful is you mentioning God in all of this.

[@89dragonov]

Wow a year already... Amazing just amazing.

[@thedevilschips]

This is beautiful. The complete ignorance of the comments below however is not.

[@illest8]

The description explains that, btw I doubt your camera can out do this one.

[@essay8634]

Is that mountain it first sees Aeolis Mons? Or some subpeak of it?

[@paNicRELL]

NASA says the core of mars is probably solid but this video proves that it is molten. There is a mountain there so that means there are tectonic plates moving under the surface and the only way tectonic plates can move is if they are floating on top of a molten core.

[@chuckmalmsteen]

right just before 1:22 if u pause it, it kind of looks like a pyramid or is just a hill in the background?

[@capriguelleri]

Yes, it has a minigun & antiaircraft missiles

[@abirthebest907]

how long curiosity rover runs in 5 years

[@pat151uk]

The technology and camera on Curiosity was tested and approved in 2003. To change and test the lenses and circuitry would be too time consuming and costly. The camera used to take the pictures is only 2MP, however it manages to produce very high MP images by using an optical zoom and taking lots and lots of pictures which are later stitched together.,

[@Zoza15]

Some of the soil seems to look wet as well.

[@Stannnnnnnnn]

No, the cost in energy to build a probe capable of a return trip would make it massive. The JPL scientists tried to come up with every possible test that would describe the materials they recover.

[@17DanteG]

When you go to college you can either study something like Business, Law,etc... Something that will actually help you or you can be a history or psych major and flow through college without any contribution to your future or to society. Same thing with this, NASA can either research something useful, (I'm not NASA I don't know what that would be) or they can keep taking pictures of samples a robot is collecting from Mars. Which by the way, are samples we've already collected...

[@kennethj1956]

How does the motor run without air?

[@DingAndDongCartoons]

You guys are saying it's slow, but you can't even tell how far it went.

[@tsoer111]

Infrared probably, better sensitivity in low light conditions.

[@amandasmith6459]

Thanks for answer but is it bad that l choose to refer to youtube?

[@truthbknwn]

Why is it in black & white?

[@Mr_KhaBoom]

Wish I didn't scroll down, but curiosity got the better of me.

[@Thedamped]

Bandwidth constraints are major. Second, is that everything was fixed back in 2004.

[@johmdoe1832]

Yeah, that's what it looks like. It's pretty common on videos of solar flares but can happen in lots of other situations.

[@frasercain]

Curiosity does have a color camera, and many of the images from Mars are color. But scientists prefer to use b/w cameras for science.

[@JuKoHD]

not anymore

[@adij617]

wow such an amazing video

[@sweetmelly9]

what's the large hadron collider?

[@Rubsam03]

Actually it's about 5 million for the current M1 Abrams main battle tank.

[@emanresu1933]

why camera not in color?

[@AchimReinhardt1]

Danke! Sehr Interessantes Video!!!

[@Jelboo]

I don't think this Rover has a camera with a microphone, but it's definitely a possibility in the future. Right now, the sound of Mars is not the priority as is the surface of Mars. But in a few years' time, who knows, we might have actual video footage!

[@twodogs716]

What was that @ 9 secs - just a triangular rock??

[@f1sfingb0at]

Go go gadget Curiosity! I been workin on the railroad all the live long day :-)

[@sixties00]

how will the samples be analysed???

[@waitandlisten15]

The landscape of Mars sure looks alot like mount Mauna Kea in Big Hawaii .

[@Lookedcobra5]

"I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested" ~Sheldon Cooper

[@olufsen98]

@emanresu1933 These images are from the Haz Cam of the rover, it only has black and white images because that's all it needs to distinguish rocks and other hazards (why its called haz cam). There are colored high res cameras as well that take pictures of the experiments and other close ups. Unfortunately the first priority of the rover is not to take stunning pictures, so these pictures will have to do.

[@ellisdylan007]

What is the rovers powersource?

[@prulcan]

a question. Why is all images in black and white.

[@UndeadPizzaGuy]

These images are from the forward Hazard Avoidance Cameras. They are engineering cameras designed to aid the rover drivers with navigation. For this purpose they do not need to be in color, as transmitting color images from the surface of another world is quite bandwidth heavy. There are many other cameras on the rover that can shoot in color though.

[@DOCWHOK9]

Bandwidth ? Heavy ? ...from the NASA website... "The data rate direct-to-Earth varies from about 12,000 bits per second to 3,500 bits per second (roughly a third as fast as a standard home modem). The data rate to the orbiters is a constant 128,000 bits per second (4 times faster than a home modem). An orbiter passes over the rover and is in the vicinity of the sky to communicate with the rovers for about eight minutes at a time, per sol. In that time, about 60 megabits of data (about 1/100 of a CD) can be transmitted to an orbiter. That same 60 megabits would take between 1.5 and 5 hours to transmit direct to Earth. The rovers can only transmit direct-to-Earth for at most three hours a day due to power and thermal limitations, even though Earth may be in view much longer." If NASA sent 1 Decent photo and explored 1 Anomaly, we'd have answers. Curiosity should have been name IGNORANCE o DECEIT..

[@Viper550ful]

DOCWHOK9 Ah, you did a bit of research. You are getting there... Now go back to that website and do a little bit more effort to find the 112.000 images the rover so far send back to earth, many in full colour, HD and 3D.

[@MrWalker1000]

+Viper550ful i'd like to see these images?

[@TheOTCIV]

They are on the bottom of an ocean floor it looks like. i mean, look at that hill at 0:42 .. How it smoothly goes up. Also the ground is all cracked up like there use to be water.

[@AAplayer13GOA]

Why is it in black and white?

[@MyPcookie]

Wow! A year already!

[@TheStatuatoryApe]

Watching the sun set....how many hours are in a day on Mars?

[@liadsnake]

Sooooo... It practically took pictures of rocks and put dots on the floor?

[@mrexe9283]

Not sure if peope have picked up on it, but at 1:08 there is a persons shadow of an anstronaut walking? Any theorys on what it is

[@thedanperezvids]

Rolling around on another planet 90 million miles away. I can't even...

[@TheAnonymous916]

Does it never get dark on Mars?

[@kamilskaz]

saya Curiosity yang sekarang berada di marikh,ingin mengucapkan selamat hari raya maaf zahir dan batin.tahun ni saya tak dapat balik kerana masih lagi menjalankan pencarian di planet marikh.buat mak dan abah di nasa hq,semoga sihat² selalu kerana saya di sini masih lagi menghantar sampel dan video untuk ujikaji makmal di nasa center. SELAMAT HARI RAYA MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATIN dari saya Curiosity di Marikh