Close encounter for the third time
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- čas přidán 6. 01. 2024
- Episode 144
Some of the debris from the crashed spacecraft that delivered Perseverance safely to Mars has been blown away by the wind. Now one of those pieces has been encountered for a third time, miles from the crash site. - Věda a technologie
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This definitely "Close Encounters of the Wandering Kind".
Is fascinating how Perseverance's non-linear path of exploration is exactly downwind from the landing site. More amazing that the special material is even calibrated in size and shape to drift nearly the same speed as Perseverance. The odds of successive encounters have to be astronomical!
And I thought I was the only one plagued by these weird synchronicities.
Agreed! This is very strange. Perhaps some Martian is playing games with us...... Like "How long will it take before they figure this out?" (Translated from Martian.)
The Sky Crane always freaked me out a bit, after the long journey to Mars, Perseverance had to rely on that exploded view of technology to set it gently on the surface. Still, it worked, before flying off to dispense that Martian ephemera on easy going winds. So strange that it accompanies Percy. Another fine episode.
If memory serves, they went with the sky crane approach, because they had already used it once before, so it was a proven system.
However, *_any_* system they decide to go with could theoretically develop an issue en route to Mars, causing issues to whatever landing system they go with.
Yeah, the Sky Crane does seem a bit freaky. I had the same reaction to the airbag approach used by Spirit and Opportunity (pioneered by Pathfinder).
Thankfully, in both missions and subsequent ones, engineers were thinking creatively, 'out of this world' one might say!
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@@MarsGuy I think the airbag approach is much more absurd. playing bouncy ball with your expensive, once in a generation robots?
@@footballct14 Yeah, there was something pretty absurd about it!
Thanks once again for these videos but even more the accompanying narratives. They make the amazing exploration of Mars especially interesting and engaging, sometimes tense and exciting. I have enjoyed every second.
Thanks for the kind words. Very encouraging!
Today, the Martians have placed the space trash in the path of the strange creature that came with the space trash, but again, it failed to pick up it's own mess...
😂😂😂😂😂
LOL
Future space travelers will undoubtedly collect some of this debris, and this piece may well be one of the most sought after both for its travels and its fame in appearing twice on Mars Guy videos. As always, thank you.
I definitely would bid on it!
It looks like an inside out Snickers wrapper to me, you find them everywhere.
Always a pleasure to meet you on your journey, Mr Mars.
Thank you, see you up there ❤
Glad to share it with you.
Excellent anthropomorphisation in this episode... Some of the peculiar "descisions" that Perseverance has made recently makes me really really want to hear a good general overview of the auto-nav software.
Looks like the debris is staking Percy😂, excellent episode Mars Guy👩🚀
Option B I guess!
Very entertaining take on a piece of litter! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Happy New Year, Mars Guy! Thanks again, so much for the great content!!
Thanks again for watching!
What are the odds ah.
What if there’s several pieces of that insulation blowing around, but the way the stuff was fabricated/installed/deployed just makes them tear away in a somewhat similar size and shape?
I find this more likely. The shape does not look exactly the same or a mirror image.
Possible but unlikely. The pieces would be all sorts of shapes and sizes. For two or more so similar pieces to be the only ones spotted would be an unlikely coincidence.
Happy new year. Loved the information 😊
👍💪✌️ Thanks Mars Guy
The debris is being stalked for sure. 😂
Very similar to the way the 30000 yellow plastic ducks ocean spill helped to figure out and confirm ideas about currents and connections around the world.
What a nice channel. Thanks. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Glad you found and enjoy the channel.
Doesn't matter that it would add 150 kg or more to the sky crane, but I'd love to see it land softly and do stationary science. I'd love to see a lot more that's also just not feasible.
Another great update! Fascinating as always. Thank you. 👍
Thanks as always!
At first, I thought Perseverance should pick up that piece of debris, but on second thought, it is a useful tracer for the wind. Too bad it doesn't have a tracking device on it so that it can be found in the future. Great episode, as usual!
Thanks. And yes, it's nice that the debris has some utility, even without a tracking device!
This channel deserves 100x more subscribers.
Thanks for saying so!
Thanks! I look forward to your vids. It's a great way to start of my Sunday mornings.
So glad to be a part of your Sunday mornings! And I really appreciate your continued support of this channel, which certainly encourages me to keep it going.
Mars guy, you add value to humanity. Thank you.
Wow, thanks!
Squeezing every last drop of science out of this expedition, even from the crash debris.
Thanks for this. It made my hard day that much better.
Glad it helped!
Another great and fascinating video. Keep up the great work!
Thanks, will do!
Thank You Mars Guy! Those collector's items will be pretty expensive.There is a comic with Spirit rover being stuck in sand on empty Mars but years later It became a monument behind the glass. This is future of those masterpieces of tech!
Would be fun to see Spirit in a museum!
Have I been called stalking debris at one point in my life? I cannot either confirm nor deny.
It’s the Martin’s tell us to take our crap with us
It's not like Mars hasn't littered all over the Earth
Excellent episode.
Thanks!
I like the way you put things into the image for scale. very smart. thanks.
Thanks, glad you appreciate this.
👍🏻 Thank you Mars Guy.
Excellent as always. Funny comments too!
Thanks, glad you think so!
The Perseverance rover must have had one too many drinks on New Year’s Eve. That would explain the erratic driving.
Is this the rover stalking the debris or vice versa? After analysing the situation I can conclude that since the rover has the wind in his back and is so easily detectable by the debris and the debris remained always stealthy, the piece is the probable predator or tourist. That's why it stalked the rover.
Fascinating thanks mars guy
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That seems unbelievable that one object would be on the same course
"Close Encounter for the Third Time". 🤣🤣 👍👍
Thanks!
Thanks much for your continuing support for this channel! This is encouraging feedback.
Thanks Mars Guy!
Wonderful 👍
They keep finding the same old Bud can, too.
This is so uncanny
Fascinating
Strange that they decided to crash-land it so that it broke into many fragments, rather than landed slowly somewhere in one, or nearly one, piece. Simpler software possibly.
Soft landing would require much more fuel and avionics.
Turns out aerial photography and photogrammetry may be more needed and considered than before.
I wonder if large beach balls could be used for low cost ‘Rover’s.
Rite Mars Dude, Are you sure you are not just placing these pieces of debris in front of the camera, I mean you are in almost every vid!... 😂😂 Stay safe n well. TFS, GB :)
Ha ha!
That like-dislike ratio is absolutely based
How can we be sure it is the same piece of debris?
awesome. !
The 6 or 7 mB atmospheric pressure that Mars has seems miniscule yet a helicopter can fly and debris can be blown. I suppose it will all be down to pure physics; Pressure = Force over Area and Boyle's Law etc. Ingenuity has to have an incredibly high blade speed and I guess the roving debris would be pretty light, but it never fails to impress.
1:00 and 2:10 MGFS
Seriously. Your videos and others like it remind me of the important things out there beyond my daily life. A little cliche' sounding I suppose but it's true. Thank you for that.
Question: Would you ever discuss things like the Chinese rover, what it did, if it's still active, etc?
So glad you appreciate this content. Thanks for the comment. I did a very early episode on the Zhurong rover (czcams.com/video/YS9TKs9dpgg/video.htmlsi=lcAanNafmjCpjv8y), but have not done an update.
I am surprised there is only this one piece that has been seen a few times. Why not others? It looks jagged so one might expect more pieces drifting around.
What if there's a dedicated alien kid telling the rolling rock to take back its trash
is MLS similar to mylar or thermal blankets? I.e. extremely thin and light so even the slight forces caused by martian winds can transport it over 6 km?
Yes, some of the layers are mylar.
Maybe they should have included a camera and scientific instruments on the flap... It's doing a good job of avoiding anything that can stop it.
Wow. What are the probabilities, seeing the same piece of debris 3 times over 6 km. This is nuts.
Happy NY.
Great, mankind has already brought stalkers to Mars. We ruin everything.
Right 👍
Whatever happened to the giant beach ball method? 😎
That's so big of a coincidence. It's a huge radius, huge surface, from the landing site. What are the chances?
Cleaning up after ourselves is going to be quite the chore once we make it to Mars. I'm sure we will do a thorough cleanup. Every scrap will be a museum artifact. That or sold at auction. There's potential money in that debris. Either way, I have NO doubt we will pick up our litter.🙂
Umm.. yeah. If there's money to be made. Potentially a great deal. There is no money to be had retreiving the poor souls on Everest@@SayWhut276
i see what you did there with the title. Spielberg would smirk.
That would make my day!
Here in the barbaric past we are such litterbugs!
What are the odds in random encounters?
We don’t even live on the planet and we have already littered it 😂😂😂
So it’s true; “You don’t need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows!” It takes a scientist and lightweight debris. 😊
Should'a worked that lyric in!
I can just see it hitchhiking it's way back to earth via asteroid someday/sol...
There's AI on Perseverance's boom arm? 😁
NASA still doesn't have a plan to take the samples off of Mars.
the rover is stalking the debris or the debris is stalking the rover? i would like to think it’s the Martians placing hints in front of us over and over again. thanks for the valuable update!
Ha, if only!
Weird
"a collectors item", lol.
Humans are such litterbugs! Percy could clean up its mess.
@1:17 there is an aircraft in the sky top left. just so y'all know.
literally where?
Tag!
Just like the government, trash up the place and then say we're doing you a favor. You trashed the joint, it is your responsibility to clean it up. Sad thing is, you planned to trash the joint from the beginning.
Proof that humans can’t escape our own garbage? 😎
I didn't know about this extra lightweight robot Nasa sent to Mars 😂
(On a more serious note, those loops can't be good for the rover's hardware; this isn't the first time it happens...)
Odd, if it keeps popping up we’ll know
Seems unlikely but
Accept it for now
Close encounter space ship I knew from my shirt was 1976 space ship with my ship UFO 😅😅😅😅
Dang, save the Martian whales and other seabed creatures from pollution.😷🤣
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Hmm, really weird that the same piece of junk was found 6km away from the landing site 🧐 Personally, I don't believe in 🙄coincidence
It's a piece of an alien spaceship shot down by the Jewish space laser hidden in the giant face on Mars.
LOL
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they're ROCKS, get over it, stop listening to Alex Jones
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