Follow along as NASA launches the Mars 2020 Mission, perhaps the most ambitious hunt yet for signs of ancient life on Mars.
The spacecraft will blaze into the Martian atmosphere at some 12,000 miles per hour and attempt to lower the Perseverance Rover in the rocky Jezero Crater, home to a dried-up river delta scientists think could have harbored life. Perseverance will comb the area for signs of life and collect samples for possible return to Earth. Traveling onboard is a four-pound helicopter that will conduct a series of test flights-the first on another planet.
During its journey, Perseverance will also test technology designed to produce oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, in hopes that the gas could be used for fuel-or for humans to breathe-on future missions.
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They are bullshitting around and playing hide and go seek.If life exists on mars its not going to introduce itself to strange visitors,and from another world are you kidding me.All those people at NASA getting excited about what,the whole universe has rocks and damn dirt and you have strange looking rocks on earth.When you see something moving up there or a strange structure of some sort,then we can jump for joy .But right now NASA is acting like a bunch of crazed kids from the city that just seen animals in the country and country life for the first time.
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According to Cory Goode, David Wilcock & many others all this is just to entertain Ppl of earth who know nothing of wdh NASA NOVA N Gov who knows what! Now Cory Goode has been a supposedly Special Space force soldier in the Scientific field N says the U S has had their Space Force for a long time Supposedly D 70's or b4! N the spaceships they have go all over D place N have no need for rocket feuel anymore! So if that's true this is BS! Cz can you imagine whatta kick the Aliens wd get if we really go places on rocket power? They wdn't go very far Wd they? And the aliens be Laughing their ass off! Saying, Here come the earthlings put put put! Polluting Outer Space! Lets mk it illegal to pollute Outer Space! Cz everywhere Earthlings go they pollute everytng! So Hv fun watching this guys! As for me? I dono WDH anymore Tnx to ALget! Ill go watch Extraterestrial vids now go N corrupt my thinkin some more!
Have they ever stop to think that all life on Mars is subterranean existence.
Stop sending all these robotic toys and playing hide and go seek and have a more explorative mindset.
First of all the scientist that are sending these rovers to mars are approaching this exploration of Mars at a wrong approach.They are taking baby steps and wasting to much time and tax payers money with this elementary level of exploration.They must take a more aggressive approach and stop crawling like a baby in it's attempt to explore Mars.Take an adult approach and stop approaching like a infant filled with curiosity uncertainty.Like the bible say seek and you shall find.
Very boring and uninteresting NOVA special. It's like they wrote this for grade-school students.
maybe will try to drop some seeds there. if will grow
the government has been teleporting certain people there since the 70S they went as far as sending kids first because they are to scared to lie but an adult can lie and not say the truth think about it a kid getting sent to mars where ther is a base but the government sent rovers to remote areas like the sahara desert here a rover can only go so fast and mars is a big planet and sent these rovers to make it look like its a place we can live on "News flash" we are already there and dont need to spend our money and time risking lives on a 6 month trip when we can be there in 15 min dont belive me look up "you need to here this prepare your self they tried keeping it hidden" by anonymous official here on you tube!!! and see for your self two generations of lies they been feeding us probably more pandemic is nothing compaired to this bs. judge for your self .!!!
We spending millions of dollars looking for life somewhere else while millions are dying of starvation....
As well as living in substandard housing, and lacking elemental health care.
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Do they realize how cowardly they look on that beach watching the launch with their stupid masks on
They could pre send the fuel!
That’s a awesome thought but we should focus on saving this planet 🌎 just because it’s old don’t toss it like a old shoe no I would stay here we’re God gave me life it’s awesome 😎 and exciting I know they are exploring there but home is home and I love ❤️ this planet 🌎 no matter how bad it gets but still it’s a thought !🌞🌞🌝🌝🌛🌛🌕🌗🌖🌒🌑🌍💫🪐🪐✨💫⭐️🌟
Their was life on Mars...it moved to EARTH after that life ruined Mars.
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Okay another thing NASA if you are up in the mountains and you have no heat you know wood you have plenty of air conditioners if your house is completely and totally sealed you put your air conditioners at 70 degrees what's going to happen or you know below that maybe 60
Decade is too long. Need to expedite picking up those samples.
What was he doing to that dog??
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Ok no the title is just stupid... the universe if fucking huge I believe their are aliens somewhere out there but not on Mars... or maybe see if life existed before on Mars and find fossils.. that I can except
Even NASA is hiring only immigrants to save money
It looks likes to me Once Mars had Water
we don't know if life was exiting at Mars
as a nurse, that little plaque kinda touched my heart :)
Plaque can cause your heart to touch your early demise too!
Me too, but I'd appreciate a little more political & health management industries appreciation here on Earth. In my opinion, intentional chronic under/transient-staffing, spine safety, & other PPE mismanagement are the hospital industry's main shortcomings, and why I will retire when the current legitimate, CoViD related under-staffing abates. Please don't get very sick. I am confident that the USA will lose another half-million family members to foolish disregard of the epidemic over the next year or two.
No water. No life. Very simple. We can hope all we want. No water, no life, anywhere. Somehow prove that life can exist in another media or solution.
why look for dead life on mars, why not go somewhere where it could be living?
Are there really humans living in Mars now ?
Thank you!
Wasting money that could improve life on Earth for millions of people and animals instead of searching for Life on Mars stupid figment!
@12:27 “We can’t really take microscopes to Mars...” I’m gunna call BS.....You can’t convince me that Your unable to build a microscope into a rover but your able to design n build an entire Martian Rover capable of landing on another planet and collecting soil samples.
The WATSON camera on Percy has a highest resolution of 16 microns per pixel, so it can identify things on the surface about the width of a human hair.
If the dust blew off an amount of the solar array could it come back online?
Sending that HD video to Earth was a very good idea. That's what gets people interested in space exploration. That's how you get funding for NASA. Can't believe it took this long to get video from Mars.
NASA is so full of fibs and deception, here they act like their patiently waiting to find “some sign of life”, then those of us that find absolute proof of vegetation, artificial tunnels, anomalies of Mars surface (and the moon), they treat our countries civilian population like their stupid, simple to deceive, we have heard from whistle blower after “” that extraterrestrial presence is rampant involved in both Mars and the moon, they brush out photos on a regular basis, whenever something familiar to life is found- they ignore the information, nasa cannot be trusted- periid
NASA's Main goal is not to land anywhere near the Face. But their glad to spent OUR Tax Money, But not for what WE want to know!! I say Defund them till they learn to hear US, while using our Money!!
There is no life on Mars.
Everything the blonde scientist says can’t be done, can be easily done with simple mechanical procedures
Im amazed at what seems to be anti-space exploration from the left now when it was their hero JFK who pushed for it ! They say theres nothing out there to see ! Nothing out there to see ?
One would have to wonder how long it had been without a magnetosphere and that not having one would effectively eradicate surface life
That’s exactly what having no magnetosphere would allow to happen
Its almost like Mars had water n life but everything got baked by intense prolonged solor flares or something.
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These people don't look trust worthy. I wouldn't trust a scientist they wouldn't tell us the truth anyways
Why don't they just send 10 rovers there .
If we landed on mars and did test you got to be a fool to not know there's life form there .
ah, CO? ... what are they going to do with all that carbon monoxide they manufacture?
odd are,there may be life elsewhere...odds not in favor of being a lightyear from earth
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Why not just clean it right before launch? Why clean even test it all the time? Just assume it's going to be contaminated no?
I'm looking for truth on PBS while they keep us on a wild goose chase for nothing as PBS covers up the fact that were was once life on Mars, INTELLIGENT LIFE!
I taught there was already 👽 on Mars😂
Nova sucks.
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We're not alone though there are millions of other species right here
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I have a feeling we will NOT find life on MARS and end up dropping the attempt. 200 years later, then scientists would say DUH!!!! , how did our ancestors miss this ? Evidence of life on Mars was obvious in 2021 .
SHOULDN'T NASA ASK IT SELF FIRST WHY IS MARS A DEAD PLANET, COULD A VIRUS OF MASS PAPORTIONS WIPE OUT THE PLANET AND ITS JUST SITING THERE TO BE BROUGH BACK THERE,
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we can't get along and help each other on planet earth why in the hell would we spend billions going to another planet
Two years my ass
all BS
Man, I HATE being LIED to...
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30:40 could that flyer be used to dust off an old rovers solar panels or carry something that could ?
no, those rovers are thousands of miles away, and the downwash from the rotors are much too weak anyway
20:40 reminds me of the effectiveness of hiding under your desk at school if the nuclear siren should sound 🤔 That won't work. Putting it in a sterilization room flooding it with radiation might.
Black ppl know life was everywhere at one time earth last the longest till this day we next no going bk to Mars
Amazing to hear and see, hmmm I personally just sorta think there used to be some sort of Life on Mars however only God knows
Nothing has never left this Earth's atmosphere. Keep believing in science kids...
And I'll bet you think you're right too !!!!......Don't you ???????????????????
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20,000+ pieces of space junk in orbit. Now, we are turning Mars into a landfill.
Valuable program !
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Amazing. I would be bummed if I forgot to take the lens cap off at 26:53
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I don’t know how they didn’t cry when it touched down. Emotional overload.
What makes you think they didn’t cry?
why cant you guys send rovers into mars and go to the ice cap an d melt a portion of it and check if theres life huh
The guy with the dog almost made me tear up, he was so nervous and the dog was literally the only thing keeping him calm
LOL, yeah the courage.
Did you take your sedatives on hand to calm you down?
true, the poor guy . It was a touchy moment.
60,000 AMERICANS ARE LIVING ON THE STREETS OF LA IN TENTS, AND NASA WANTS TO COLLECT ROCKS ON THE SURFACE OF MARS AND BRING THEM SAFELY BACK TO EARTH . FUCKING ABSURD !!!
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Y'all a big waste of money if It was signs of life it would be all ova the grownd
"YES!" Earth says "Hello"!
There is no such thing as a free country if there's humans living there what's your full close date was murdered and you manipulated a people that survived
Nobody here in the comments know about Billy Carson? Also nasa adds red color to all its photos.
Who adds the red color to Mars when you look at it in the night sky?
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Yes on earth everything needs liquid water to live but what's to say another lifeform on another planet survives on liquid methane or ethane?
I wonder how much life left sun has.
Sadly the retrieval part of the mission will likely never happen, as it relies on participation by other countries. The Biden administration is currently destroying our relationships with other countries around the world, so even if the U.S. still exists by then, and that itself seems unlikely, I doubt we will be able to count on any help from other countries. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see the entire program canceled in the near future, while the rover is still fully operational.
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Looking for life or the fossils of life?
506 people did not like this....what the heck????
When cameras here on earth are able to function properly en below 30 degree weather, I will trust that nasa has been to mars. When I can close the door to my wifi router room without losing any of the signal, then I will trust that nasa is able to transmit footage from 300+ days away. When a cellular phone has a signal deep en the forest here on earth, then I will trust that nasa can transmit radio frequencies from 300+ days away. When cellular phone calls no longer drop here on earth, then I will trust that nasa is able to maintain upload and download speeds from 300+ days away. When electrical outages no longer exist, then I will trust that nasa is able to communicate with a rover 300+ days away. When video camera footage that is needed to solve crimes no longer mysteriously disappear or do not record at all, then I will trust that nasa is communicating with a rover 300+ days away. If nasa has technology that can hold a strong signal to infinity and beyond, then the people should have that same exact technology, no excuses.
Hope the rover that retrieves the samples will be able to pick a few solid rocks to boot
The Fetch rover will be able to collect the sample tubes containing drilled rocks but not individual rocks.
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I believe There is no life on mars never was. Earth is center of the universe. The earth is God's footstool.