A recently released NASA video shows interesting footage of a 3 year journey made by the Mars Exploration Rover called Opportunity, all condensed into just 3 minutes. Opportunity travelled from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater on Mars, between September 2008 and August 2011. Each day that the rover travelled it took an end-of-drive picture and these 309 images have been spliced together to give an interesting insight into a 13 mile (21 km) strip of Martian landscape. The soundtrack for the video was created by speeding up by a factor of 1000 the low-frequency recordings from the rover’s accelerometers, which represent the vibrations recorded by the rover as it moved over the surface of Mars. Louder sounds represent the rover travelling on bedrock, whilst the quieter sounds are when the rover was moving over sand.
Interesting images and an eerie soundtrack - definitely has a very desolate feel to it.
Interesting images and an eerie soundtrack - definitely has a very desolate feel to it.
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