Interesting, if not terribly exciting, video composites from the Mars rovers.

Thanks Chicago. I’m going to have to fire this up on the tv or my blu ray player. I forget which does YouTube in 4k native. I never use the apps. But I have to see this in 4k.

Yeah, I watched it the other day. Remarkable images, although I can just hear the giggling 25 years in the future, when he talks about the images being in "stunning 4K". That'll be like us watching 320x240 stuff today.

The bluish-green rock and dust, I wonder if that is copper ore?

wow

thanks for posting!

I need to watch this in order to enhance my reading of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars, recommended by NHTagmember.

Quite impressive.. but about half way through the narrator explained that the pictures have been 'colorized' to help geologist define different rocks and such....

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Yeah, I watched it the other day. Remarkable images, although I can just hear the giggling 25 years in the future, when he talks about the images being in "stunning 4K". That'll be like us watching 320x240 stuff today.

By then they'll have figured out the whole quantum be-in-two-places-at-once, instant-communication-over-huge-distance thing and we'll all be wearing "quantum virtual glasses" and seeing it in real time just like we were standing there beside the rover (or whatever the next-generation rover is).

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:
Quite impressive.. but about half way through the narrator explained that the pictures have been 'colorized' to help geologist define different rocks and such....

Is it transmitting in black and white, or is there an atmospheric issue, etc?

No, I think the original pictures are in color but they have been enhanced to get a better distinction between the different substances on the surface.