This is an incredible video just released by NASA of the Perseverance Rover’s touchdown on the Martian surface via Sky Crane (a crane that holds itself aloft via rockets while it lowers its payload to the ground). Some more details while I speculate where they actually filmed this in Arizona:
Seen here at the site of what is unquestionably a UFO crash, these are two videos created using still images sent to earth from various Mars rovers, all rendered in stunning 4K resolution. Crazy, right? It’s wild to think in our lifetime that we might actually have humans living on
This is a four hour orbit of the moon in real time created by astronomical filmmaker Seán Doran using photographs taken by Japan’s Kaguya (Selene) lunar orbiter from 2007 to 2009, and released to the public in 2016. I also included a 30-minute video he created highlighting various lunar features,
Because when your significant other tells you that you can whatever you want as long as you keep it in the basement you hold them to their word, this is a video of Youtuber The Todd giving a tour of the Star Trek and Doctor Who themed areas of his
Remember the post from two days ago of the entire interior of a room being painted with Musou black, the world’s darkest commercially available paint, absorbing 99.4% of light that hits it? I certainly hope you remember, otherwise we might have a The Notebook situation on our hands. I would
Because sometimes you have to razzle-dazzle the crowd with a fireworks show to renew interest in your project, this is a video of a SpaceX Starship exploding while attempting to land after a successful high-altitude flight test. Afterwards, Elon Musk congratulated the team for gathering the data they needed during
Space: the final frontier. Captain Kirk said that so it must be true. This is a video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) of a massive plasma eruption taking place, played in both visible and invisible wavelengths for reference. Some more info while I pretend it’s actually the devil trying
The Arecibo Telescope, probably better known for its appearance in GoldenEye than for any of its scientific discoveries, made an unplanned crossing of the Rainbow Bridge on December 1st after several catastrophic cable failures dropped the telescope’s 900-ton receiver through the dish below. The collapse was captured on video both