This video first came from NASA, and it was awesome to watch the Curiosity Rover landing on Mars, but this one comes from a fan and he has painstakingly pieced together all of the individual shots and enhanced it into a real-time HD version…  Bard Canning is his name, and he's gifted us with this beauty. Ultra-resolution, smooth-motion, detail-enhanced, color-corrected, interpolated from the original 4 frames per second to 30 frames per second. This video plays real-time at the speed that Curiosity descended to the surface of Mars on August 6, 2012. People.  This is not computer graphics....


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Seriously, I don't care if you think space is gay. This video should make your head hurt and whip your mind into a frenzy of "how in the hell do we pull this stuff off?" This is the video of the Mars Curiosity Rover landing on the surface of Mars.  Yes.  Read that sentence again people.  This is a high-definition of the damn thing landing.  on the.  surface.  of … MARS!!!  This is actual images.. This is not a computer graphic simulation. Plus you get to hear the excitement and relief in the voices and background noise of the NASA engineers and smarty-pants that pulled this...


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  **update**  Curiosity landed successfully at 1:32am est this morning.  Everything went as planned and images were sent back not long after the landing.  Yes that is the surface of Mars and the part of one of the rover's wheels in the image to the right.  The craft will now undergo a couple of weeks of full testing to insure it landed without damage before heading off for it's planned two year exploration of the Gale Crater and Mt. Sharp.  In 2006 the Opportunity and Spirit rovers (much smaller) were landed on Mars with only tended short life spans.  But the Spirit operated until...


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