11+ Years of Mars Roving in 8 Minutes | Time-Lapse Video

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

[mrspidey]

To think this was supposed to be a 90-day mission...

The little rover that could.

[doodelay]

The slowness of it was what i took away from this. Moving at a speed of something like a few meters or less within the span of a week has to be pain staking for the mission crew in charge of daily maintenance.
I watched the entire thing and enjoyed seeing how little movement it would have throughout the course of a day.
It was also fun to relate the dates on screen to what was happening in my life down here on earth.
I saw my hs graduation date, the day i fell in love and back out of love over a relationship.
I saw my little sister's birth, the day i moved out, and the day i took my first biology class in college.
If you do things like that I think that anyone can find this video rather neat.

[Ray_Tracing]

The fact that this was not filmed on earth is surreal

[totallyterriblecontent]

NASA: “This will be an 90 day mission!”
Rover: *Laughs in 11 years*

[VS-etpn]

I had just turned 8 when it landed. By the time he Opportunity slipped off into its forever sleep, I was halfway through college. Unreal

[kshitijbafna]

Was I a good rover?

Death: You were the best.

[SnowBoy]

1:05 is where the heat shield crashed wow

[AirShort]

This video is from another world!!! Ouhh... it is actually! Breathtaking I say...

[joeblack]

This was a champion machine. To think it was active for another 3 years after this video was posted. On another planet...

[bergonius]

Moment where he almost got trapped in sand was pretty scary.

[Unmedicated_Moments]

From when I was 4 years old all the way up to now (17), I've been growing and learning. While almost my entire life was going by, every bad experience, every "best day ever" and every memorable moment in my life, this thing was on Mars slowly moving around all alone and conducting science experiments.

[joraku]

Isn't it amazing that humanity built a robot that many years ago and sent it to another planet?
Think of that, if you look to the sky and the stars.

[WootTootZoot]

1:20 That was the night Howard Wolowitz got the rover stuck in the sand.

[jonasweber]

That’s how my grandparents describe going to to school 😂

[Reisevideos]

In some decades a museum will be build around the place where the rover finally had stopped. :)

[KURTrek]

It's amazing how fast you forget it that this planet is 34 million miles away at its closest point to earth. I cannot fathom this tremendous accomplishment. The weird part about this is, there is a VERY high chance that humans will see this rover in person within the next 10-20 years. Seems so far away, yet so close.

[brianfreeman]

Imagine buying a car and not servicing it for eleven years . . .

[MiikeyBA]

Whenever it reaches to sample something, I feel like it is saying, "Ooh piece of candy. Oooh piece of candy!"

[The_JEB]

this kind of technology exists and yet people still complain about how many megapixels their smartphone camera has

[PoisonAlienful]

Rover would be like.. "Lovely day. What a lovely day !"