Astrum - 2020-09-11
What happened to NASA's Opportunity rover and how its mission eventually ended on Mars. Last episode in the series! Thanks to Blinkist for sponsoring today's video. Get a 7-day free trial and 25% off their full membership here: https://www.blinkist.com/astrum Astrum merch now available! Apparel: https://teespring.com/stores/astrum-space Metal Posters: https://displate.com/promo/astrum?art=5f04759ac338b SUBSCRIBE for more videos about our other planets. Subscribe! http://goo.gl/WX4iMN Facebook! http://goo.gl/uaOlWW Twitter! http://goo.gl/VCfejs Astrum Hindi: https://bit.ly/2OawGpx Astrum Spanish: https://bit.ly/2KmkssR Astrum Portuguese: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChn_-OwvV63mr1yeUGvH-BQ Donate! Patreon: http://goo.gl/GGA5xT Ethereum Wallet: 0x5F8cf793962ae8Df4Cba017E7A6159a104744038 Become a Patron today and support my channel! Donate link above. I can't do it without you. Thanks to those who have supported so far! Image Credits: NASA/JPL Music Credits: Rhiannon McColgan - Serenity Nebula https://soundcloud.com/annon-sound Stellardrone - Ultra Deep Field Neutrin05 - Above the Clouds Meydän - Story
Crazy how I’ve always known about the “mars rover” as a kid. I never realized it was the same one all these years whenever hearing news about it or something it might’ve found. I always thought that rover technology was regularly used after the first.
I cried
its not always the same one
could be opportunity, curiosity, perseverance
Yea same
@S L Or the first rover, Spirit
“My battery is low and it’s getting dark…”. About as beautiful a spontaneous statement from a robot as you could expect.
@Fantasy Sports Analysist FSA I only said it cause it made me sad 😂
@Luko. LOL!
Cries in robot
@Fantasy Sports Analysist FSA Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....Oh f**k.....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@TrykuTyku TUTU 😂You understand my pain.
It's kind of silly getting emotional over a machine, but I feel much the same way about my 20 year old Camaro that I have owned since new. It's done a brilliant job, much more than I expected when I bought it. Not only 293,000 miles on it, 293000 Andy Miles. Still the original engine, and no rust holes in the body. 20 Michigan winters. 'nuff said.
Bravo to the engineers and technicians that create our wonderful machines.
But can it go into outer space tho? J/K😅😅😅
God bless your little cute heart
I don't find it silly at all; when you put a lot of love into something it will last longer, and those who keep this love when in possession of it will see it live much much longer.
Neglect is not edit: only something one can do to living or dead things, respectively...
AND the initial point: It's easy to get attached to something where you see and appreciate all the work hours and meticolousness behind it.
Hand made things are most often more rewarding in this regard but not exclusively. This rover is a great example.
A lot of people dedicated huge portions of their lives to it! It only make sense to get attached.
Wow, 20 years? I've never owned a car for more than a little over 4 years, a 2017 Honda Civic Type R that I bought new and just recently sold this past March so I could buy a '17 Porsche 718 Cayman S. If I kept the same car from 20 years ago, ironically it would be a 2000 Integra Type R 😅 Of course, now those are worth like $80k and I sold mine for 1/4 that 😑
Covered with zbart
I really hope that when we do eventually go to Mars, we'll take the time to find this thing and put it up in a museum. That little robot and its controllers deserves some mad respect.
Hopefully we find it first 👀👽
Maybe the first Martian Museum should be the place it is exhibited.
The rovers made it a long way, leave them where they stopped. That's what they achieved afterall, don't take that away lol
Agree
Dude I was just talking about that with some friends. It would be cool if we could actually find the legendary rovers. Imagine just walking out of the lander and just seeing a rover in the distance just going towards you to say hi.
My hat's off to all the brilliant, dedicated people that were involved in this mission, farewell Opportunity, you'll be missed.
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My hat is off for the Brilliant God our Creator Who gave us all we need.
@Angler Dan how do you mean? The only future is Heaven or hell.
@Mia humans will find it.
@Mia by that logic that means what will happen in the next 5 seconds doesn’t exist
The Spirit and Opportunity missions always hold a special place in my heart. I remember them arriving on mars when i was a toddler. My parents took me to NASA events to learn about them and mars. It wasnt until i almost had my mechanical engineering degree that it was announced lost. I hope everything i help build exceeds its design like opportunity did.
This is what American teamwork is. The whole opportunity mission signifies American teamwork. Im so proud to have worked at NASA during the time opportunity was online. Thank you to all the team members and a special thank you to Astrum for the video.
It’s pretty hard to maintain any sort of faith in the human race these days, but projects such as these do reaffirm what great technological achievements are possible by humans .. and the vast potential we have as a society..
I know we are talking about a robot here, but I feel strangely sad for it on it’s lonely mission, isolated from its creators but dutifully carrying out its tasks. No technicians around to make it feel better, no ticket back home 😢
And then it died. "My battery is low & it's getting dark" ;-;
Yeah, kind of like HAL2000.
It’s a robot without feelings
it'll be rebooted up in person one day
Sometimes we have feelings on material things
I agree there was a sadness about it, but let's remember it is a machine, a marvel of human ingenuity, they are designed to power down at the end of their missions. This robot superceded it's expectations by lasting about 55x longer than it was designed for, that is a cause for celebration, not sadness. However I must confess, its hard not to feel a pang of sadness, I think some of us have seen Short Circuit one too many times, Opportunys little head does look a bit like Johnny 5 after all 😄
I was in high school when Opportunity landed. We wondered what it would find. Little did we know how much we'd get out of it. It's amazing to see a part of my childhood coming to a close. What a time it was to be alive.
Wow. That is awesome. Hopefully scientists can figure a way to have the probes clean their own solar panels like a brush that could move up and down (and hopefully not scratch the surface). Amazing that it lasted this long. NASA should be proud of it's accomplishments.
It's incredible how long this rover lasted. I really hope those who engineered and ran this mission got big promotions and have since worked on curiosity and Perserverance.
A 90 day project that lasted 12 years. I think that's a success. Great job, Opportunity team.
@Jay Rock AK It was a planned 90 day mission that continued to operate for over 15 years.
They planed 12 years but only publicly say 90 days to avoid high hope.
❤️ a success by any measure.
That's wild
You're asleep
To say that, "we know Mars was once a planet like Earth", simply because we have discovered that it had oceans is a huge leap. It very well may been. It may even be probable. That does not mean we know that it was. Great stuff otherwise. 🙂
What a hugely successful mission. I would live to access the pictures from this mission.
Oppourtunity is one craft which MUST be one day recovered or made into a surface museum, the monolithic contribution it made to our mars exploration efforts are truly astounding. Sleep well oppy, you earned it dozens of times over.
It is certainly an impressive achievement, to have such vivid images of a distant planet. I must say though that what impresses me most about Mars, after the "wow" factor of an alien world wears off, is its depressing deadness in all directions, to every horizon. Not a fly, a blade of grass, anything. It is also disturbing that this is probably the face of most of the universe, by far, indicating that any notion of a cosmic plan for life in the universe is probably an illusion.The only thought that could relieve that depressing vision would be if we could take a totally dead planet and terraform it with some kind, any kind of life.
When Opportunity landed on Mars, I was in the Navy, deployed overseas. I was able to watch the landing and initial imagery being sent back live. When the team realized that Opportunity had landed in a shallow crater and was able to see Martian bedrock for the first time ever, it was an amazing moment to watch.
I’ve always felt a small kinship to Opportunity over the years and have followed its progress across Mars. Now that we’re both “retired” with dust in our joints, I feel a bit sad that Opportunity no longer transmits. But one day, someone will find it in Marathon Valley and perhaps find one more secret to share with humanity. I hope I’m still alive to hear from Opportunity one more time.
@Lam rof I don't think mars has anything to offer that will assist in war.
Don't think of scientific progress as a bad thing to for this reason
@MuayThai. Conspiracy theory moment
@Vangelis K. Dinner time sheep. Head to the feeding trough. Return to work promptly. Watch plenty of television after.
@Taco Powered Time Traveler 🤡
Meanwhile, back on earth I was lying on a rifle range igniting carbon molecules, sending out little metal objects, learning to be better at obliterating human life on a still primitive planet.🗿☮
You can't tell me that rover didn't gain self awareness as it went on, it knew the sun was it's life source and we were in the direction of it, the final picture was it saying "I'm here guys, when you get to come here I'm here for you to come bring me home, I see you guys and I hope to see you again." It basically died watching the sun rise, which is beautiful
RIP Opportunity. You were only expected to live 90 days but you held on for 15 years. We should all have that drive in our lives.
😂😂
Looking at the electromagnetic plate inside the Mars probe makes me questionable. Usually, electronic substrates melt when the temperature is high and lose their function. So electronic devices are only available at proper temperatures. As far as we know, Mars has a fairly high air temperature, but it is questionable whether the machine will be able to operate properly at such a high temperature. Moreover, in the case of external cameras, lenses are needed, but if Mars' air temperature is high as known, can it remain and function without melting? We are obviously deceived a lot.
This is one reason I wish I was born like 100 years from now. I’d love to know more about space and the solar system. Crazy to think so many people have died not knowing what other planet surfaces and stuff is like.
I wish there was a way we could learn everything we wanted to know before we died /:
The way we're going we won't be here in 100 years
If you live forever eventually you will learn everything
@Scambait Spidey lol
Our souls will be able to travel faster than light. We'll see everything and travel anywhere we wish after this life.
@Mister Davis I hope so bud I truly do
An amazing mission to say the least. Total respect to all the staff behind this historic project. I'm no scientist but I do find it hard to believe the comment at 5:34 - " A gully had never been closely examined by any Mars mission in the past"? Are you kidding me? A gully that looks like it had some sort of liquid running in it was never examined before? It seems to me this should have been o ne of the first places to look for confirmation if water flowed in the past.
Great job! What an amazing recap. Thanks, man. I really enjoy your videos
i remember reading about it's last transmission back then, never in my life i felt so sad for a robot.
RIP Oppy, you're a goddamn beast!
Hooah! Team Opportunity. Great job! This is incredible. Thank you for this little miracle. I hope to be able to read about all the knowledge it has collected about Mars.
The fact humans can even make a machine that functions on a different planet for over a decade is incredible.
@MustangShelbyGT500 I would definitely like to know more about the deep sea. To me even the creepy alien like animals down there look prehistoric or from the time the Dinosaurs were around. I get water pressure is kind of hindering deeper exploration and the lack of lights, but I do think it’s possible to go deeper and stay for longer one day
@Jamie Harr oh but I do have something important to share with you! Their’s a good chance I’m your father I don’t know tho there were many of us that night.
@Occam's Razor just sayin lol
@Man H Stay asleep you’re right where they want you. Bah bah bah
@MustangShelbyGT500 💯 I always said start with fixing what we got lol
Wouldnt be something if they sent up a repair style rover that could find the older rovers and repair them and clean them up a little bit to bring them back to life. That would be quite awesome. If this was done we could have a fleet of working rovers on Mars. Replace the Flash Memory boards, replace worn out tires and other items, that get it back up and running again.
@Jordan Wiser unless you can build a repair robot for significantly less than the cost of a new rover. But it would also have to be able to make upgrades in situ as well or it wouldnt pay. Why keep an old farm truck running when you can have a new SUV yeah?
you mean a Wall-e ?
@MPF_AGUNDIPSHT was wall-e a repair bot, or a clean up bot? It's been a while so i can't recall. I thought he was a janitor.
What I'm thinking of is essentially robot AAA.
edit robotic AAA
@Damocles54 both, he was designed to clean but also programmed to repair, he collected spare parts from other wall-es to fix himself
@MPF_AGUNDIPSHT then yes, that's exactly what I'd suggest for Mars. We need some Wall-Es
I think in our world of constant stimulation and whatever we want on tap, it's easy to look at the photos produced and think of them as boring.
But just think of what this represents. That is a different PLANET! And machinery that was engineered to last for 90 days which went on to be used for far longer in the most extreme of circumstances... Wow
I truly hope we can sort out our problems on earth, because when we're good we are bloody brilliant.
I would hate to see all of our progress go to waste and for us to go backwards in our progress.
Learning about other worlds is proof of how lucky we are to have our world and how important it is that we are able to protect it and learn to live in sync with it, rather than just taking as we currently are.
Turmoil is lay ahead, but if we can straighten out and untangle things as best as we can, there is hope of a positive future
What I find mind boggling is the fact that the ISS built over 3 decades ago is still serviceable and is
working just fine after all these long years and then the Mars Rover from a modern day times is a high-tech creation is already being considered an old worthless piece of trash and it's only been a few years. Just more proof that creations made 30 - 60 years ago is way more heavy duty than compared to modern day weak things.
What an amazing feat of engineering and science. Rest well great explorer
Get's me in the feels every time that last transmission. RIP Opportunity, you really went above and beyond the call of duty.
One can not be gotten "in the feels". There is no such location on the body. I believe you mean to say that this transmission evokes a particular emotional response.
@Speed Griffon people got his drift, no need to be a moron.
Its a awful that whatever is learned from this mission will go to the US military so it will kill woman and children of the world.
@Lam rof lol, someone has to stand up to the dictators and theocracies of the world. If not the US then who?
@Scott Scotty The working class of the US. Be they people or heroic robots.
It was a shock NASA was able to achieve so much with 1980’s technology
Im not really sure why, but viewing images of Mars, makes me sad. I think because its so desolate, not a single green thing (other than maybe rock), so lifeless. there is just something about the images that are just sad. Good job rover, you did good.
What makes me sad, is thought, that now we are mastering mars, what sort of mess will make of it, going by the mess they have made of the earth !
It reminds me of what Earth will become. Not by our hand of course, but in geological time. Then my mind goes to all the ecosystems dying with every record breaking heat wave each year from now until for ever more, while we more or less keep living our lives, and I see that the universe has no qualms about apocalypse.
For some reason I was under the impression that if Mars has a lot less atmosphere, the camera then would be able to see a lot more of the terrain at a further distance. Everything seems like its just a couple of miles. Or maybe I have it backwards.
A moment of silence for our greatest rover of all time. You will be missed😢
People emotional reaction to Oppy end makes me so happy. It's just a robot, a tool we used to study a place, and yet, humans place such value on knowledge and exploration that when our little robot on mars died, there was a not insignificant amount of people who were genuinely emotional about it. Isn't that wonderful, to be able to care so deeply about our understanding of the world around us and the things we use to explore that world?
Its a real life wall-e
@Golden Eagle Lmao classic
I never get emotional about robots in Arizona
Never thought about it before but, yeah, more people will grief and likely grief more deeply for this robot than people will for me once my battery depletes.
@Fixed Fighter Bot
I think it would have been interesting if they could get it to work with night vision cameras for a couple of hours after nightfall
Unbelievable! Same as the voyager probes. Let’s hope we survive these next few years and use the science for understanding and expansion.
I somehow missed the conclusive proof that there was once liquid water on Mars. I'll have to review the rest of this series and see when that happened. It was only hoped for when I was a kid
So so so so incredibly interesting!!! It would be so amazing to see Mars with liquid water 💦 in today’s time. Modern science is just amazing!
I wonder if nasa keeps their end of the line open, to imagine that if opportunity came back online but just couldn’t reach out to home or even could hear mission control but couldn’t respond and is now just completing its mission while trying to contact mission control to maybe one day be able to get through because it hit a speed bump and it jostles whatever it needed back into action would be wild. 2023 and we hear from a long lost explorer. The nation or at least the nasa team would be ecstatic.
it wouldn't surprise me if there's a periodic check.
"My battery is low and it's getting dark" still hits me right in the feels
It's great that we get to see where it went....but how about the data it found, and what materials did it collect
If we ever do find a way to colonize mars even if it's just a mining operation I hope they find these little guys one day and they are given the respect they are due.
My favorite story about the rovers is JPL asking to have the letters JPL in the tire tread. When told no, the decided the wheels needed a way for the sand, etc. to be cleared out ot the wheels, so put a series of square holes in them. The holes were the Morse Code for the letters J, P, and L.
...yeasas
Im not even fact check this one.
It's WAY too cool :)
@Jack Connolly I learned it on a Smarter Every Day video, where he toured JPL, and a JPL engineer told him about the dedris
clearing holes.
@Matthew B Nice. I just subscribed to that channel yesterday after watching him shoot a baseball through a gong :) Youtube is amazing !
The Morse code JPL is on the current Mars Perseverance rover.
Wow!! I never knew the surface of Mars looks almost exactly like the Utah desert!
It just blows my mind, words that I can’t explain...how are people smart enough to build these things, send them millions of miles away into space, have them land on mars successfully, then operate for over a decade, controlling them from earth...I just can’t even grasp how they do it...hats off to the teams at nasa. Full blown GENIUSES.
I went to school with a kid who is now working for NASA and he was a freak of nature!
I know! Yet driving around Melbourne Australia is a bloody nightmare and with all this great tech not likely to improve. Go figure.
@PlanetaryBeat
"I went to school with a kid who ... was a freak of nature!"--PlanetaryBeat
Then, there's hope for me.
Aussiemarco - 2022-03-25
It’s so easy to humanise a machine when it communicates to us like it’s human, as well as bravely soldiering on, performing its duties even though it can’t do them as well as it could when it was young, or as fast. RIP, brave little Rover.
Paul Heydarian - 2022-08-09
Persumably, it could be repaired at some point in the future, when people actually make it to Mars.
Probably sometime in the 2050s.
mike ellchuk - 2022-08-23
it kinda looks like Wall-E