JPL and the Space Age: Landing on Mars

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  • čas přidán 21. 12. 2022
  • In the summer of 2003, two NASA rovers began their journeys to Mars at a time when the Red Planet and Earth were the nearest they had been to each other in 60,000 years. To capitalize on this alignment, the rovers had been built at breakneck speed by teams at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The mission came amid further pressures, from mounting international competition to increasing public scrutiny following the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven. NASA was in great need of a success.
    “Landing on Mars” is the story of Opportunity and Spirit surviving a massive solar flare during cruise, the now well-known “six minutes of terror,” and what came close to being a mission-ending software error for the first rover once it was on the ground.
    Documentary length: 60 minutes
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Komentáře • 525

  • @wmffmw1854
    @wmffmw1854 Před rokem +165

    I worked on Curiosity at JPL. Was a good feeling when the rover landed successfully! I designed PCB hardware (PYRO FIRE BOARDS) that controlled the explosive bolts that operated to deploy elements of the spacecraft during EDL.

    • @mackjack1507
      @mackjack1507 Před rokem +18

      ..Well, Let Me Be NOT The First To Say U Did An
      OUTSTANDING JOB!!😏
      THE WHOLE CREW DID!!🏅 IM SURE THE "GOVENATOR" HAD BIG WORDS OF PRAISE FOR EVERYONES AMAZING
      WORK. .AND TRUTH BE TOLD U PROBABLY DID THIS THRU SLEEPLESS NIGHTS,🥱 FOLLOWED BY SLEEPLESS DAYS,🥱 IM SURE..NO ONE COULD REST TILL THE ROVERS WERE UP AN RUNNING ON ALL 6! . .THATS THE WAY THINGS BECOME WHEN U PUT UR HEART INTO THEM. . UV'E SHOWN WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THE JOB DONE--N ♠️'S !!
      A GRATEFUL PLANET😎
      THANKS ALL OF U👍🙋
      U HAD US💃🕺💃🕺
      RIGHT ALONG WITH U😏
      AND WE THANK U..👍🙋

    • @mackjack1507
      @mackjack1507 Před rokem +7

      ..Couldnt Have Said It Better Myself!!👍🤣

    • @mcpacho1
      @mcpacho1 Před rokem +1

      @@mackjack1507 uuuu hi uô

    • @WSallai
      @WSallai Před rokem +4

      🎉That is quite an accomplishment! Congratulations 👏. I worked with a Software Engineer for a Japanese/American microchip manufacturing equipment supplier and he wrote all of the code for our Systems. He had worked at JPL also in the late sixties through early seventies where he wrote code for Voyager missions. Every time we saw something in the movies, like Star Trek, or saw something in the news about these now Interstellar Space Craft, I think of him. He was quite proud of his part in sending them off into the Cosmos.

    • @zabrzanka100
      @zabrzanka100 Před rokem +2

      @@mackjack1507 jejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejejeje avec EM.PRAWDZIWYM

  • @chrisbelos2834
    @chrisbelos2834 Před 7 měsíci +9

    JPL and the space age is one of my favorite docu series ever. to see everything that goes behind the curtain is truly awesome.
    Thank you JPL

  • @SpartanNat
    @SpartanNat Před rokem +101

    Another installment in the best space-related series on CZcams. There’s nothing like JPL uploading another installment of JPL and the Space Age, especially in time for the holiday break.

    • @petercoghlan2384
      @petercoghlan2384 Před rokem

      Ì,

    • @Bitchslapper316
      @Bitchslapper316 Před rokem +1

      It was better the first time 15 years ago

    • @carlsmith5545
      @carlsmith5545 Před rokem

      The mighty United States of America can spend billions and billions of dollars to build a rocket to boldly go where no man has gone before and yet they still can't build highspeed bullet trains which is something the mighty United States of America should of had decades ago.

    • @Half-CockedG
      @Half-CockedG Před rokem +1

      Homemade documentaries is better

    • @vasupatel8924
      @vasupatel8924 Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@Half-CockedG lol

  • @shimudeluxe
    @shimudeluxe Před rokem +99

    these docus are really really good. no artificial drama needed to make spaceflight exiting to watch

    • @grandstand3294
      @grandstand3294 Před rokem +1

      It literally starts with an artificial drama anthropomorphizing the planet Mars.
      "Death planet"
      "It's taunting earth"
      "JPL took up the dare"

    • @ajcook7777
      @ajcook7777 Před rokem +4

      @@grandstand3294 Shimudeluxe is talking about the type of voice/narration, not which words were used. Some narrator a long time ago completely ruined all future narration by using intonation and inflection on EVERY SINGLE WORD and it completely ruins the narration. This guy just speaks normally, which is tolerable

    • @doctorcrichton
      @doctorcrichton Před rokem +2

      Yeah. I exited real quick after reading your comment.

    • @joshuadowdle9691
      @joshuadowdle9691 Před rokem

      @@ajcook7777 How do you know they were talking about the narration? Artificial drama could be inserted into voice, script, music, visuals, etc.

    • @vmtvrealrmradio7779
      @vmtvrealrmradio7779 Před rokem

      beep laugh out loud at landing on Mars teee heee heee beep -robby09

  • @catsforhire9116
    @catsforhire9116 Před rokem +13

    These people are at the cutting edge of human scientific capabilities. It's fascinating to watch all the moving parts come together to work.

  • @Voyager_AU
    @Voyager_AU Před rokem +61

    Sweet, I love this series!

    • @s1nb4d59
      @s1nb4d59 Před rokem +3

      Love the narrator and the way this team put everything together,no cheap animations ect,just excellence.

    • @TimPerfetto
      @TimPerfetto Před rokem

      @@s1nb4d59 Ohhhhhhh god bless you for loving the narrator and god bless your hearing because without being able to hear you wouldnt know wtf was going on and god bless the narrator and god bless the non-cheap animations and god bless you for liking thing like my cat he likes to eat his hair so god bless cats and god bless god for giving cats hair so they can survive on their hair when nobody feeds them

    • @TimPerfetto
      @TimPerfetto Před rokem

      @@s1nb4d59 Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhh

    • @s1nb4d59
      @s1nb4d59 Před rokem +1

      @@TimPerfetto I seriously hope the doctors are prescribing you with the correct medication. 8)

    • @TimPerfetto
      @TimPerfetto Před rokem

      @@s1nb4d59 God bless you for caring if I need medication and god bless doctors for being able to help people and god bless god for not making my life so horrible that I need medication but if I did god bless medication

  • @nilo70
    @nilo70 Před rokem +21

    I worked on the Mars Viking II mission at JPL. I worked up on “ Cardiac Hill “ making things in the SFOF and for the DSN . I’m 70 years old now , but it was the Best Job Ive ever had. The lander performed perfectly, the special Facsimile Camera images ( my department ) of the surface were clear and amazing
    and the Life detection experiment said there either was , or still was life there . I was stoked ! The Honest Truth is , I would have worked there for Free ! I knew what I was doing was important and would change the world. I was right .

    • @JarrodLaws
      @JarrodLaws Před rokem +1

      Thank you!🚀

    • @brentwalker3300
      @brentwalker3300 Před rokem

      Thanks for your contribution. It takes so many talented people to make these missions a reality.

    • @0xhiro
      @0xhiro Před rokem

      Thank you so much for your contribution.
      Btw did y'all write the software in C? 🤯

    • @thomasdodge5017
      @thomasdodge5017 Před rokem

      I totally agree with you. I have always loved working at JPL and I am trying to get back there now. I did work with the DSN years ago, and more recently with Mars 2020 and with NISAR. An awesome place.

  • @swanee327
    @swanee327 Před rokem +37

    These documentaries are great! My soul has been missing this.
    I know its not in JPLs job description, but a series about the ISS construction would be cool. No ones done hardly anything about it... And if there's any way i would want to relive and learn about ISS again, its how these documentaries have been presented and made.
    Great job JPL! :)

  • @PBeringer
    @PBeringer Před rokem +13

    Blaine Baggett is an absolute documentary making machine! But he makes films SO much more compelling and deep in scope than "machine" implies. My God, I've loved every one of these recent JPL documentaries. The amount of offline editing and trawling through archives that must be involved is a monumental achievement on its own; and it simply blows my mind. And it's such a special thing that JPL had cameras rolling almost permanently around the lab, or we wouldn't be able to feel anywhere near as "close" to its atmosphere, culture and achievements, etc. Brilliant work! Love, from Australia.

    • @nickfosterxx
      @nickfosterxx Před rokem +1

      Seconded. Having only recently discovered this series, I'm astounded at how fast these are being released. Can't wait for more - and realising there's so much to be said. Would love to see a partner series on all the technical problems and how they were solved, and conversely from a management perspective, on keeping the teams motivated and the different 'factions' such as engineering and science, harmonious.

  • @sloggiz
    @sloggiz Před rokem +5

    it’s quite amazing to have these exceptional documentaries available for everyone free of charge! thanks a lot for sharing them!

  • @sergiopascale3487
    @sergiopascale3487 Před rokem +5

    Am in awe with the amazing intelligence & ability of every single human brain behind this mission...the pioneering legacy of this people to humankind will forever be remembered as we continually explore the vast universe.

  • @geomodelrailroader
    @geomodelrailroader Před rokem +6

    It was an amazing mission when we sent Spirit and Oppy to Mars they lasted longer than any rover we sent. Rest in Peace Spirit and Oppy and Thank You!

  • @speedball1919
    @speedball1919 Před rokem +6

    Keep these docs coming JPL
    Thanks, from all us space nerds.

  • @wk8219
    @wk8219 Před rokem +6

    Around the 45 minute mark when it talks about the software problem I literally busted out laughing when the trick to solving the problem was essentially, rewriting the boot sector. I can’t tell you how many times I had to do that on computers in the early 2000s. It’s nice to know I wasn’t the only one. :-)

  • @nattankress
    @nattankress Před rokem +9

    Please keep making these documentaries, they're really inspiring and have helped me deal with end of semester burnout.

  • @s1nb4d59
    @s1nb4d59 Před rokem +5

    JPL Studios you rock,and Neil Ross for his lovely narration.

  • @everythingspace6490
    @everythingspace6490 Před rokem +17

    This was awesome thanks for this.

  • @thedosaguygg3710
    @thedosaguygg3710 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Beautiful !!!! Nothing short of it.

  • @twisterwiper
    @twisterwiper Před rokem +18

    Wow, I can’t wait for this. I was so fascinated with the Voyager documentary they did some time ago. Loved it!

  • @cliffb1
    @cliffb1 Před rokem +5

    Another masterpiece. Thank you, JPL. Keep them coming! 👍👍👍

  • @claudethibaudeau2714
    @claudethibaudeau2714 Před rokem +6

    This was absolutely an opening into new discoveries for the future. I remember the news when they said that we were now on Mars and I was literally at awe that humans can accomplish such a feat.

  • @krazybubbler
    @krazybubbler Před rokem +2

    JPL produces best space documentaries. Thank You! Awesome serie!

  • @FredPlanatia
    @FredPlanatia Před rokem +3

    A really well done documentary conveying both the excitement and anguish of exploration. Thankyou!

  • @skeelo69
    @skeelo69 Před rokem +11

    Wow ! Amazing documentary !

  • @alanmcrae8594
    @alanmcrae8594 Před rokem +6

    This what you get when you empower the best of the best to plan & execute a bold mission of planetary exploration. And it was great to see them handle the technical problems with the discipline & collaboration necessary to overcome the unexpected and recover to normal science operations as originally planned. JPL is simply the best. Congrats to everyone who made all this happen!

  • @robertsmooth6339
    @robertsmooth6339 Před rokem +3

    JPL and the Space Age: Landing on Mars -NASA proof that nothing is impossible and our Engineer when beyond to discover a far red planet with our advanace rovers for mission for mankind. Now we leave Opportunity and Spirit surviving a long journey mission to discover a Red planet call Mars... Extraordinary Engineers Thank You for impossible

  • @jamesrussell7760
    @jamesrussell7760 Před rokem +1

    It is just such triumphs as these which make me very proud of humanity, for when we work together there is nothing we cannot accomplish.

  • @RCR72
    @RCR72 Před rokem +3

    Thanks for the amazing work JPL

  • @vikramanand4723
    @vikramanand4723 Před rokem +2

    I like the humility in this video, landing on Mars is no joke and we won't succeed all the time

  • @AffectiveApe
    @AffectiveApe Před rokem +2

    Hey! I am not sure who is charge of keeping the folks who made this on the payroll, but please for gods sake give them a raise and have them keep going!!!

  • @vmwindustries
    @vmwindustries Před rokem +2

    That was absolutely 💯 amazing 👏. Thanks to all of you for your hard work! The world loves you all!

  • @TarisRedwing
    @TarisRedwing Před 10 měsíci

    I LOVE these long form documentaries.

  • @geode8556
    @geode8556 Před rokem +15

    Just 💘 it all! Why isn't this being played on the major networks? It should!
    I love and thank you all at JPL & NASA.💘 💘 💘 💘 💘
    The past 10 years, I was giving up hope on this country.
    You make me proud again to be an American.
    You gave me hope, Obi-wan Kenobi
    Thank you!

    • @tmo4330
      @tmo4330 Před rokem +1

      I believe I have given up hope as well. It bothers me that there is all this talk about sending man to Mars soon when we can't even go beyond 400 miles up now. (Mars is 38,000,000 miles away at its closest point). I just don't understand?

    • @bikkyghaisai7692
      @bikkyghaisai7692 Před rokem +1

      Is America a great country: Yes
      Would I as a European live in it: NO.
      The reasons are the mentality of superficial contacts, the verbal agressive culture, and the reasons how Americans destroyed nice city blocks into 10 lane highways, lacking old shopping streets, and only large parking lots with to much lane roads and unsustainable numer of cars everywhere. It is not safe for kids to go by themselves to school, and it is not safe for adults to bike to say a shop nearby.

    • @tmo4330
      @tmo4330 Před rokem

      @@bikkyghaisai7692 True! I was shocked when I visited Chez Republic. People are honest. People walk without fear. The quality of life seems better there. I was raised being told America is the greatest country in the world. In reality, it's a den of thieves over here.

    • @geslik_1559
      @geslik_1559 Před rokem

      Mainstream is very busy feeding us with lies..thats why.😎

  • @ismaelgonzalez2552
    @ismaelgonzalez2552 Před rokem +1

    Thank you very much I would love to meet someone that worked with this project someday and feel recall all the feelings that went through us when seeing this happen thank you again 👍

  • @ralph411
    @ralph411 Před rokem +2

    This was an incredible documentary

  • @mcfcguvnors
    @mcfcguvnors Před rokem +4

    fascinating how many stages there are & it HAS to work

  • @notabot7238
    @notabot7238 Před rokem +3

    Now we wait 2 decades for this series to continue. Perseverance, Europa Clipper, Psyche, NEO Surveyor, Dragonfly, and Mars Sample Return.

  • @cannonfodder4376
    @cannonfodder4376 Před rokem +9

    A nice capstone to a wonderful series. Wonderfully informative and uplifting and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year JPL!
    I look forward to more to come and wish good luck on future endeavors.

    • @gottogo8675
      @gottogo8675 Před 7 měsíci

      Earth is not a spinning ball and space is fake . Look for yourself

  • @sanjayvishwakarma7774
    @sanjayvishwakarma7774 Před rokem +1

    Good Mars mission on Red planet thanks nasa team

  • @jasonc8307
    @jasonc8307 Před rokem +1

    Look at all these brilliant ppl, I am so proud and I didn't do anything.
    I'm just happy to see all these ppl from all over the earth come together and do this.
    I wish I could have done something like this with my life....
    Big hugs

  • @jamesascher8147
    @jamesascher8147 Před rokem +1

    this just fills my heart to the brim

  • @dutchhoke6555
    @dutchhoke6555 Před rokem

    Exciting to revisit this event relative to
    subsequent and current endeavors.
    Nice program.

  • @tullyfisher
    @tullyfisher Před rokem +2

    Super interesting. Thank for sharing this JPL!

  • @bblod4896
    @bblod4896 Před rokem

    Fantastic. Thank you JPL.

  • @salih1012
    @salih1012 Před rokem +1

    Every Time Goosebumps ❤‍🔥

  • @nickfosterxx
    @nickfosterxx Před rokem +2

    Makes sports seem so trivial in comparison.

  • @grottonisred6541
    @grottonisred6541 Před rokem

    Brilliant from start to finish.

  • @dr.vijayanraju3656
    @dr.vijayanraju3656 Před rokem +1

    Beautiful.... Thank you

  • @TropicalCoder
    @TropicalCoder Před rokem +6

    I watched it all - from start to finish, in real time back then. Spent hours pouring over images as they came in. Read the daily reports. So interesting looking back on this now, in retrospect. Even as I write, my desktop background is a large landscape of Mars - from Curiosity, I think. Once in a while I gaze it it, and imagine I am standing there on Mars. When I was a child I read The Martin Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, and before that Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter of Mars. I am pretty much done with Mars now, having come to the conclusion that it is a harsh, endless barren desert, monotonously desolate.

    • @JarrodLaws
      @JarrodLaws Před rokem

      did you put your name on the cd's that both rovers carried?

    • @TropicalCoder
      @TropicalCoder Před rokem

      @@JarrodLaws Not sure now. I was well aware of it. Perhaps I did.

  • @friendo760
    @friendo760 Před rokem +2

    I so enjoyed watching this.

  • @Life_42
    @Life_42 Před rokem +1

    Amazing documentary!

  • @mikesrdtrukr
    @mikesrdtrukr Před rokem

    Really really enjoyed that!!
    Cheers!

  • @maxime9636
    @maxime9636 Před rokem +1

    Thank U so much 👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤

  • @andyyefimovich2815
    @andyyefimovich2815 Před 10 měsíci

    Superb film! Thank you so much!

  • @classic_sci_fi
    @classic_sci_fi Před 2 měsíci

    This series is good at describing just how many close calls there were.

  • @jeevanandhvijay
    @jeevanandhvijay Před rokem +1

    Awesome documentary

  • @alencosic3765
    @alencosic3765 Před rokem

    My son was two years old when we watched this landing animation, now he's in college. For me it feels like yesterday

  • @EpicRobloxianReal
    @EpicRobloxianReal Před rokem +1

    Merry Christmas JPL!!

  • @TechNed
    @TechNed Před rokem

    Wonderful! Thank you.

  • @bystander9028
    @bystander9028 Před rokem +2

    Can't wait 🙌

  • @Maxvellua
    @Maxvellua Před rokem +1

    Thank you so much for these documentaries you are doing at JPL!

  • @charlesblack2523
    @charlesblack2523 Před rokem +1

    This is an interesting documentary I enjoyed watching. 👍🏼

  • @neo-YoutubeStoleMyHandle

    You guys are awesome...job well done!

  • @stevewheatley243
    @stevewheatley243 Před 7 měsíci

    Great documentary.👍

  • @saad2fan161
    @saad2fan161 Před 5 měsíci

    Merci pour création one peace

  • @whirledpeas3477
    @whirledpeas3477 Před rokem +3

    To me JPL means smart people doing great things, or great people doing smart things. I love it either way.

  • @yiy3429
    @yiy3429 Před rokem

    America is greater because of these guys. Kudos!

  • @saritareddydonthi1432

    Awesome congrats team for you amazing work and precision!

  • @tonyvaping944
    @tonyvaping944 Před rokem

    Thanks for you

  • @user-lq6si2ny1e
    @user-lq6si2ny1e Před rokem +1

    Very interesting and informative!

  • @caseyeldridge9354
    @caseyeldridge9354 Před rokem +5

    Is this the same guy who narrated the Nova PBS episodes Mars Dead or Alive and Welcome to Mars? His voice sounds really familiar.

    • @TheStockwell
      @TheStockwell Před rokem +1

      Neil Ross, himself - a genuine master of his craft.

  • @dy6682
    @dy6682 Před rokem

    Against the backdrop of the endless universe, our efforts to Mars is such a hugh small
    step but amazing human initiative to accomplish this.

  • @letingrad
    @letingrad Před 2 měsíci +1

    And to know that JPL was created because a group of people started to make rockets and NASA just hired them and let then just do it is so awesome!

  • @carlwill5009
    @carlwill5009 Před rokem

    That was really cool lot of teamwork

  • @cydniedonat7635
    @cydniedonat7635 Před 4 měsíci

    NASA absorbed JPL because they did not have actual ROCKET SCIENTISTS to build all those Satelites that carried probes that to this day after decades are still reporting information back to earth. I for one want to thank all of you at JPL for being so precise and building machines that have brought us magic. Magic in the form of images and data that has taught us so much about other planets and moons, we otherwise would still not know much about. There are no words for you're devotion to your sciences. ❤

  • @erickperez6348
    @erickperez6348 Před rokem

    Amazing 👏

  • @Bluedot1
    @Bluedot1 Před rokem +2

    "Space age" Red planet , Thank you JPL

  • @sugirainkok9854
    @sugirainkok9854 Před rokem +1

    Love this twins machine~

  • @MrChappy39
    @MrChappy39 Před 10 měsíci

    Seeing the exaltation of the techs moving the rover off the lander reminds me of my first parallel parking episode.

  • @rozagarakoeva6014
    @rozagarakoeva6014 Před rokem

    Какие ВЫ молодцы!!!

  • @mocko69
    @mocko69 Před rokem

    JPL documentaries>>>

  • @Elviracgabane-rd7wi
    @Elviracgabane-rd7wi Před rokem +1

    Salamathaeyo Nasa

  • @jonesrick1
    @jonesrick1 Před 7 měsíci

    From a layman: fascinating!

  • @SuperJuntax
    @SuperJuntax Před rokem +3

    "Dear mars, i still looking for you"
    Earth

  • @krishnabhutada3983
    @krishnabhutada3983 Před rokem

    Nailed it!

  • @drk2535
    @drk2535 Před rokem

    excellent

  • @markbass_trojanthinking
    @markbass_trojanthinking Před rokem +1

    First live screening so to speak👍🏾👍Merry Christmas and seasonal Greetings 🎉

  • @teentraveller6850
    @teentraveller6850 Před rokem

    merry Christmas Percy.. &curiosity

  • @Kamil_O
    @Kamil_O Před rokem +1

    amazing story, people working at nasa are heroes

  • @7kidvid
    @7kidvid Před rokem

    It was amazing, I remember this clearly, the elation, going where no one has gone before, elation. They were robots, I miss them. My robot friends on Mars.

  • @jdwilmoth
    @jdwilmoth Před 2 měsíci

    Mind blowing technology

  • @runspace
    @runspace Před 10 měsíci

    8:26 Pollyester xD That one had me rolling on the floor!

  • @user-mc6wt2fs3d
    @user-mc6wt2fs3d Před 7 měsíci

    Good very much ! Ed efelen

  • @user-rq5xn5pd9v
    @user-rq5xn5pd9v Před rokem

    This is really great achievement for man kind.

  • @FortisKnight
    @FortisKnight Před rokem +1

    To calculate the timing of commands that control when to activate the pyrotechnic events to allow successful landing of the rovers would have been the cause of intense stress, intense pressure, and then to finally essentially say: yes, these calculations are correct, and the time to transmit this data to our spacecraft is....... now! Then the execute button is pressed, commands are transmitted. Then the highly educated and expertly trained and thoroughly tested staff are reduced to a sweating, pacing, heart bonding group all trying to intensely avoid thinking those two most terrifying words: “What if?”
    And success! A fantastic level of calculation, planning, and determination. Not many could accomplish this.

  • @ebscoHOSTpub
    @ebscoHOSTpub Před rokem

    which one is #1? I wanna see this in order but hard to find order #

  • @MichaelMiller-op8fe
    @MichaelMiller-op8fe Před 7 měsíci

    I love how as soon as they see the pictures they turn into a bunch of little kids. 🤗

  • @Lumber91
    @Lumber91 Před rokem +1

    Did I just spend a hour watching this, maybe, was it worth it? Yes

  • @your_average_joe5781
    @your_average_joe5781 Před rokem +1

    Where is a documentary on the Perseverance rover??
    We need an update!!

  • @andrefarfan4372
    @andrefarfan4372 Před rokem

    Yes.