The Mars landing as you've never seen it before

Posted on August 24, 2012 inAdvanced technology and bio-technology, N.A.S.A. /MIT/ LockHeed/ DARPA/ IBM/ ..., shadow people/ ghosts/ orbs/ demons/ poltergeists /EVP/ time travel /extraterrestrials, space

Spectacular new HD video shows ‘seven minutes of terror’ in just 50 seconds

It's away: The heat shield, which protected Curiosity on its decent through the Martian atmosphere, falls away as the rover begins its landing

http://youtu.be/gZX5GRPnd4U

You’ve seen the Mars landing before, but you haven’t seen it like this.

The Curiosity rover quickly beamed back a host of low-resolution images as it floated down to the surface of the Red Planet on August 5. Those grainy still shots were compiled into a video that wowed people around the world.

But, now the NASA vehicle has been on Mars for more than two weeks, it has had time to send full resolution, HD images it took of its own landing. A visual-effects editor compiled the new pictures, condensed them and edited them to produce a vivid new video.

‘Seven minutes of terror’ as Curiosity descended to Mars has been packed into just 50 seconds.

Visual-effects specialist Daniel Luke Fitch edited the footage using the new, high resolution frames that display an incredible amount of detail that was missing in the first images.