Perseverance’s First Full-Color Look at Mars

It's pretty exciting, OP. I'm waiting for the full video of the landing. The still shot from the Skycrane is amazing.

This is sooo cool!

On a stand-alone basis, these scientific achievements are exciting and I'll never get tired of seeing the progress of humanity.

For those who critique spending this money, they need to more fully understand the direct and indirect positive (economic) impact of these scientific efforts for life on earth.

It feels like we are living in the beginning of the Expanse! I love it

Wait until the natives show up...

I wonder who will claim the planet as their own (Asia, Russia, S. Arabia, U.S.)? Is it whoever colonizes it first with people?

What a DUMP.

The martians turned out all the lights and went underground. "Are they gone yet?"

Those images are so clear. It really is amazing. To me, it looks like a remote desert here on earth...like around Afghanistan. I'm not into the space program, usually. This is very cool and the US should be proud. Take a bow..not too much to proud here now lately.

[quote] Not gonna lie. I find this VERY cool

You are not alone, OP. Not by a long shot.

Those pics are incredible.

[quote] Wait until the natives show up...

Oh, please. If Matt Damon can survive it, so can we.

That landing sequence video in R12's link is incredible. What an achievement!

How much money did this project cost?

Why do we need it?

Seriously.

Hilary Swank sends her love back to earth from up there.

Cool!

The latest picture transmitted back

Early Cuyler: What did I teach you about Perseverance, young man?

Rusty Cuyler: That, “if at first you don't succeed, then it wasn't meant to be. It's just a waste of time, 'cause the Union’s just gonna take your money anyways, 'cause they jealous that we got an extra bone in our body that makes us smarter, but don't nobody in Science care to acknowledge that”...and “you were an unwanted pregnancy!”, and “you ruined my dirtbikin’ career!”, and “get outta my sight, you disgust me!” You talking ‘bout that one, Daddy?

Early: [sniffles with pride] And a son has done been imparted with the knowledge of a father. [beat] Now, what did I tell you about drinking underneath the age, huh?

Rusty: Uhh, you said, “if you can afford to bring back enough for me, then I don't care what you do.” And, “it's your body, you can kill it however you want to, ‘cause America's about freedom.”

It's all fun and games until they bring that dust back and cause a pandemic 1000x worse than COVID.

[quote] How much money did this project cost?

[quote]Why do we need it?

I guess you’re against government support of the arts too, right?

Patience and Perseverance brought this photo for our reference.

It is very interesting. Yet also reminds how little humanity has proceeded in the universe. So much has happened in the last hundred years to make our lives easier yet we know so little what’s going on around this planet.

Perse in Finnish means ass.

Purse Hat ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Looks like Nevada

How dare you, r26?

This is FAKE! It’s done in a studio.

Gotta love engineers.

Well, at least it has sunlight...

Isn’t it the Red Planet?

Full of g-damn communists!

That’s so 1984, r31. Now they are defenders of the white race!

r32 is mesmerizing

Look what they found... Aliens!

Lol!^^

So thrilling to see the Martian dirt landscape in all its full light-brown and beige glory!

The videos and images are so clear, it's like it was recorded locally. It feels like you're there. The moon landing, everything was so grainy...but that was an amazing feat at that time...not to take away from it.

I am just watching two hour long document of building it. People working on the project are so wise smart and clever I can’t understand it. They are in a different level of wisdom.

@r26, "Looks like Nevada "

It looks like Georgia red clay right after they clear the land for a new housing development

I could believe r41 was taken on Earth

I find it VERY cool too OP. I'm absolutely fascinated by what we are going to discover on Mars. It looks like it had life on it billions of years ago and then something changed and poof - all gone. The same thing with happen to Earth one day. Fascinating. There were seas of water in the past as have been dated by asteroid hits (more on land and less in water).

R39 - I watched bits of that and thought two things to myself -

1. Gee these people are all fucking genius.

2. These are people who really [bold]DO SOMETHING[/bold] with their lives. I suddenly felt as if I had wasted my paltry life and felt quite small and inconsequential - which most of us are.

That's nice. Looks like Arizona.

What I don't understand is the tens of thousands of people who would give anything to live the rest of their lives on that.

Surely after a few years the thrill would be gone.

Where them Martians at???

quote] IIt looks like it had life on it billions of years ago and then something changed and poof - all gone. The same thing with happen to Earth one day.

If you mean someday Earth will migrate fifty millions of miles further away from the warmth of the sun and at the same time lose two thirds of its mass, I'm not too sure you're correct.