Every spacecraft on Mars - comparison

Made in Blender.

Human base mesh done buy CarvMad, altered and textured by us.
Models downloaded from Nasa 3d resources:
Viking, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, Insight (some parts reused
for Phoenix and Polar lander by us), Perseverance and Ingenuity.

Music: Psychic Magic - Unicorn Heads

[lothean]

Funny how the animation guy kept himself entertained while waiting for us to catch up.

[joarfunaya]

You always see these rovers in a picture without any reference, so it's really surprising to see the real size of them.

[porpedroiiebertrand]

Designed for 3 months, lasted 15 years… Opportunity was the real prime engineering.

[DexOfOne]

I love how you did the translations. Giving the lander's name in the language of the sending country then translating to english was cool.

[Maverickthegoof]

Ingenuity, "Still in operation" hurt more than it should have. RIP Ingenuity. :(

[rustyshackleford]

Since this video came out, we’ve lost INSIGHT (2022), Zhurong (2022), and ingenuity (2024).

Also weirdly enough there aren’t many mars landers planned for the rest of the decade. Just that European rover that gets constantly delayed.

[threestrikesmarxman]

When humans set up Martian colonies, we should take the "dead" spacecraft and put them in a museum or a memorial on Mars. I'm thinking we should also send one back to Earth to show how far we've come—not only have we sent space probes to Mars, but we've also brought them back.

[inquisitivdave]

One of the best animations for Mars spacecraft... ever! Good Job!

[lucasoreidopunho]

2:45
That dude did the Moonwalk.
At Mars.
What a legend.

[MstrDuck]

I knew of the Chinese rover and was happy to see it land. But I never knew what it looked like. I love how they made the solar panels look like a butterfly.

[unvergebeneid]

That new Chinese rover is really pretty. Love the arrangement of those solar panels!

[eaaeeeea]

I felt a bit of pain on every crashed crafts... The amount of work done on each of these is mind boggling! I'm glad that so much research has already been made with the ones that made it!

[mifak]

4:09 - 4:14 one little thing: Ingenuity has two propellers that compensate for torque. They should turn against each other.

[ON]

*Exceptional animations! Useful and entertaining at the same time...*

[AstronomicalYT]

That guy walking to the music was the most satisfying thing ever

[helixzenith]

3:24 rest in peace InSight (2018-2022)

[heshengxing]

So many crashes... But every one of them should be respected.

[FloridatedHO]

In case people were wondering, Tianwen(天问) basically means "Questions for the sky/heavens, which comes from a poem of the same name. Zhurong (祝融) is a figure from chinese mythology who is a fire or maybe a sky god.

[FredPlanatia]

that was awesome. Not just seeing all these landers to scale, but their deployment & status, and the subtle humor of the human for scale (moon walking in the background, or is it mars walking), and just when i was wishing to know where all these landers werelocated you finish up with a rotating mars showing the landing sites. chapeau!

[edbrackin]

I knew Curiosity was large, but when you panned to it, I was like "WOW!". This was excellent work.