Sub-Orbital Space Flights & Satellite Exploration
Follow Disney on Twitter: bit.ly Journey to the Red Planet with Walt Disney as your guide. This never-before-seen video remixes rare retro footage from Disney’s imaginative 1957 “Mars and Beyond” TV program.
Tags: theme, resorts, other, animatic
Engineers test new software for NASA’s Mars Curiosity mission.
Tags: new Mars rover, Building Curiosity, engineering, Mars Rover
This montage was created to demonstrate that it is the scientific method alone that has elevated the standard of living of many populations to soaring heights and can do so for all the world’s people. Science is not an ideology, but a method. A method which can free us from the shackles of destructive, divisive, superstitious thinking and create a peaceful, sustainable world where the united human race harmonises with the laws of nature, rather than arrogantly ignores them. —————————— You as a human being have evolved to respond to the world around you on impulse. You will instinctively jump out of the way if, say, a bus comes careening towards you. You know it would have a fatal effect if you didn’t. Even if you had never seen such a thing happen to a person before, you can instinctively calculate the weight of the bus, its size, its speed, and you will know that your frail body does not stand a chance. You know this because your very perception is built to comprehend the world in which you live. Defy it, and you will perish. As soon as you realise that this is a certain fact of life, you can apply that mentality to everything that you do. As the old Stoic saying goes: ‘Virtue exists in a will which is in agreement with nature’. This means that if what you choose to do is done without resistance to what you cannot control, then you will not encounter suffering as much. It is a certainty that you cannot break the laws of nature. They are firmly stuck …
Tags: superstition, Carl Sagan, Curie, automation
An update on the construction of NASA’s next rover to Mars, Curiosity. In this segment, Curiosity gets wheels!
Tags: Mars Science Laboratory, robot, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, robotics
Highlights from the stunning mission animation of “Curiosity” – NASA’s new monster one tonne Mars Rover which is set to reach the Red Planet in 2012. Includes the superb soundtrack by Marqus Mars – marqusmars.com
Tags: Mars Rover, science, music, NASA
My first video. An awesome presentation for my school robot project.
Tags: Montage, project, robot, Mars
Did Mars once have an environment capable of supporting life? NASA’s next rover — the Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, will further unravel that mystery. The rover carries a whole laboratory with it wherever it goes and is much bigger than any rover sent before — about the size of a car.
Tags: Mars, Laboratory, project, planet
The video presents 3 panoramas taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during its ride toward the position called “Larry’s Lookout”. It also presents some features of the VRPresents-technology-based virtual reality software called VRMars-Spirit – The Red Planet Mars 3D, released by Sciterian Technologies. See Martian mountains named “Columbia Hills”, “Tennessee Valley”, “Cumberland Ridge”, the summit of “Husband Hill”, Martian rocky outcrop, rocks and some further views. Watch the planet through the Mars Rover’s eyes. Credits: NASA/JPL/Cornell/MSSS/OSU/New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science/USGS/Honeybee Robotics – More in the software.
Tags: Astronomic, planet, Virtual, cosmos
Highlights from the stunning mission animation of “Curiosity” – NASA’s new one tonne Mars Rover which is set to reach the Red Planet in 2012. The video is set to excerpts of “Mars, Bringer of War” and “Uranus, The Magician” from Holst’s Planet Suite.
Tags: Rocket, 2012, planet, classical music
Cette mission de la NASA a pour objectif de faire atterrir sur la planète Mars un énorme robot d’exploration de 850 kg dont plus de 300 kg d’instruments scientifiques ! Un véritable laboratoire mobile. Lancement prévu entre le 15 septembre et le 4 octobre 2009 pour un atterrissage sur Mars entre le 10 juillet et le 14 septembre 2010. (crédit : NASA) En savoir plus : orbitmars.futura-sciences.com
Tags: Laboratory, robot, Mission, science