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24 Jul 2020

A Stunning Panorama Of Mars

In a world first, ElderFox Documentaries presents new footage from Mars in stunning 4K resolution. The footage was captured over the years from the three most successful rovers–Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity, the latter being the only rover still active on Mars. Unfortunately, Spirit and Opportunity succumbed to the Red Planet’s environment. The footage was shot by these rovers from the actual surface of Mars and Team NASA provides informal place names of each shot in the bottom left-hand corner.

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31 Aug 2015

Seeing Things That Aren’t There

After more than a century of observation and seven spacecrafts, people continue to see weird things on the planet Mars. Case in point was a recent photo sent our way by the Curiosity rover that appeared to show a woman standing near the edge of a Martian escarpment. Turned out to be a visual aberration, of course, but why are we seeing things that aren’t there? Rest easy, folks, it’s only pareidolia, the tendency humans have to perceive familiar images, especially faces, where none exist. Hank Green fills us in on the juicy details in this edition of SciShow.

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15 Apr 2014

Beam Me Up, Scotty

The Mars rover, Curiosity, has snapped some amazing photos of the Red Planet since touching down in a large crater in 2012. Now comes a photo transmission that blows the mind and has scientists searching for answers–or, hiding its contents. The photo show the barren Martian landscape with what appears to be a light beam shooting up from the ground. In this edition of SourceFed, Lee Newton and Elliott Morgan speculate on what the image is.

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12 Dec 2013

Ancient Mars Was Habitable

Curiosity, the nuclear-powered rover on the surface of Mars, has uncovered evidence in the giant Gale Crater of ancient life on the Red Planet. SciShow’s Hank Green discusses the mounting evidence that ancient Mars was habitable over larger areas and longer periods of time than we ever thought.

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