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China's Zhurong rover sends back video and audio from Mars

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Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:00 UTC

Illustration of China's Zhurong rover

2021 has been a great year so far for space science and astronomy. This year, we have crossed one more milestone as China's Zhurong Mars rover has become the second rover to sent back video and audio from the planet's Utopia Planitia region.

On Sunday, Zhurong descended into the planet's surface and has sent back to us the video of this amazing feat. The footage includes the deployment of its parachute and a uber-cool drive off from the Tianwen-1 landing platform. The drive off video also features sounds captured by the rover's climate station.

Here is the video of Zhurong's parachute deployment and descent.

Here is the video of the rover driving off from its lander (with sound).

As you listen to the second video you can notice how bizarre it sounds. It feels very alien and unnatural. Jia Yang, the deputy chief designer for Tianwen-1 has explained it as the sounds made by the pinion of the rover when it rotates on the rack.

With this Zhurong has achieved the same feat that NASA's Perseverance rover managed to do last February. It is just magnificent to see how far we have come in terms of technology from the days we first started sending objects into Outerspace.

As more countries join in and pile on milestones, collectively we are walking closer to the dream of living life beyond the confines of our planet.

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gonexploring · 2021-07-01T19:46:47Z

my question is.. what is filming the rover?

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-07-01T19:57:54Z

gonexploring Though I'm far more skeptical than even most SOTTites I'd guess, I've gotta think you're dealing with (though I've not seen the above video, I learned about this from surfing videos) the fact they've now got, in GoPros, for example, a carry wand that you can hold out or behind from yourself and it automatically and digitally erases the entire wand itself. When I first saw such I video I wondered if they might have had a drone flying behind the surfer.

Meanwhile, I am STILL awaiting explanation of just how it was that the camera angle followed the Lunar Module liftoffs on the moon, though.

RC

scrutinizer · 2021-07-02T00:49:59Z

gonexploring Damn good one, and notice how the scenery in no way looks like some desert spot in east mongolia.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-07-02T01:13:14Z

scrutinizer But western Mongolia? Maybe.

RC

oldschoolrider · 2021-07-02T01:20:47Z

Rowan Cocoan they left the cameraman on the moon, so the so called greys could have a bbq, couple of roasted ribs, rump steak etc..

the bones were then put on the dashboard of the ship, bit like those hoola chicks we can get here those solar powered distractions that cause shit load of accidents anyway...

weird how all the info they had back then is now gone and lost, and yet the chinese roamed around the moon with there rover and mentioned the so called lander from the americans is gone,, not there, even the flag is gone, so..

did it happen in the first place?

we live in times now of fakery on all and most levels,

be good to see some replys now, be a laugh, much needed in todays misery!!

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-07-02T01:23:59Z

oldschoolrider And I saw every damn Apollo launch! (They were great! Unlike anything else I've ever seen.) But my little eyes never could see them on the moon - try though I might and although Walter Cronkite told us so. . Hmm. 🤔🤷‍♂️

RC

oldschoolrider · 2021-07-02T01:41:31Z

Rowan Cocoan its the same old thing, but get this,

in the good old book, "the bible" there is a paragraph in there, cant remember exact location, but..

"the Triumph of moses was heard all throughout the desert"

OK!!

i ride a triumph, but, without the baffles the bugger is loud as, well, maybe an Apollo launch, but, id like to know what model it was, and what grade of fuel did it have, and, and, did it have a pillion seat..

also, what kind of bikes did the other gangsters have, maybe some had the bulls horns on the handlebars, that look kind of cool, either way, no safety laws back then, they buillt the Ark, they can build bikes,

we have been mislead by those way even back into time before we were even thought of.. and many are not thought of, they are the result from a heavy night on the booze or even blowing an almighty scoobie, feeling the need for a bit of lovin,

all is awsome, hehe..

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-07-02T01:56:59Z

oldschoolrider I've seen all sorts of insanely huge things that mankind has made, but frankly, nothing has come close to the launches I've seen (every Gemini after 1/65 and every Apollo), and countless STS and other launches, but none of those even came close to the Apollos, and none of the Apollos compared ti A17's night launch. (I was 13 when it took off and 14 when they returned. - Yes, I had to look that up.)

It was like watching a high speed sun / time lapse photography of a sunrising, but all around. Back to the west you could see the clouds over Orlando and the blue sky everywhere! Beyond cool. [Link] (Of course, even if a modern cam et al. had been there, there's no way it could convey the whole experience. Was beyond beyond.)

RC

sbc · 2021-07-02T05:46:22Z

Rowan Cocoan [Link]
official explanation you requested.

sbc · 2021-07-02T06:02:54Z

Rowan Cocoan play Kerbal Space Program. or watch some videos.

damn it's fun. you build rockets and space planes, landers, rovers, return vehicles, pre planned re-supply orbital vehicles, refueling processing stations, observational satellites, communications networks, all that stuff and explore a make believe solar system.

my current avatar is a character from the game.

codis · 2021-07-02T06:15:51Z

sbc Yeah, totally makes sense to put so much effort into a short sequence hardly anyone really cares about.

Sounds more like a movie director obsessed with details - Kubrik comes to my mind ...

codis · 2021-07-02T06:17:39Z

Rowan Cocoan That was my first thought, too.

Either Gobi, or one of the other desert regions China has under control.

Stevil ·

sbc

· 2021-07-02T12:11:06Z

Stevil · 2021-07-02T12:42:10Z

sbc Did you see this? [Link]
Seems even Musk is into KSP!

sbc · 2021-07-02T12:56:41Z

codis The official shoulda been like this, "official" explanation.

make sense?

sbc · 2021-07-02T12:57:52Z

Stevil No, thanks for that. Lolol!!! XD

codis · 2021-07-02T13:53:05Z

sbc With NASA nothing makes sense, so everything makes sense.

Does that make sense ?

@Stevil, there will be no life and no human colony on Mars. Never.

Mars has no magnetic field, so you are exposed to the full load of cosmic radiation. You will die in days.

Also the reason why Mars has no atmosphere, and will not have one. The gasses are not kept by gravity.

They (NASA, Musk and Co) know that. Just another Kabuki performance ...

sbc · 2021-07-02T13:53:59Z

codis we were talking about a video game. You missed the point.

We were pointing out the laughability.

codis · 2021-07-02T14:01:42Z

sbc Perhaps I'm too old - I am happy with a Freecell game now and then, no time for gambling ...

sbc · 2021-07-02T23:13:37Z

codis [Link] here is a video preview of the game.

HashAttack2 · 2021-07-03T10:17:57Z

Rowan Cocoan Watch the last video - the Zhurong turning, so any camera is not attached to it and the lander base is in the background, so that's not where the camera is either

codis · 2021-07-03T10:22:28Z

sbc Ah, was that you in the video ?

I came across the term "Kerbal Space Program" yesterday, but didn't look deeper. To realize it's a game ...

sbc · 2021-07-03T13:21:32Z

codis Its an AWESOME game!

Martin Harris · 2021-07-04T05:20:55Z

scrutinizer No, absolutely not Mongolia. How dare one even suggest the idea that the CCP would hoax a Mars landing using Mongolia. Ahem...

DeliciousTears · 2021-07-06T02:24:17Z

gonexploring Epstein's new job....

JTF Truth · 2021-07-01T21:29:00Z

Meanwhile, I am STILL awaiting explanation of just how it was that the camera angle followed the Lunar Module liftoffs on the moon, though.

Bam! As I child watching the moon landings, I was hooked. 2 things always stuck in my mind, the live shots of the stages disconnecting and this moment you have pointed out. When I learned physics, this always kept popping into my head and I've never ever come across a proper explaination for it. It's just impossible given the technology at the time, even today, becasue of the time delay, you can't properly pan that take-off, unless you are standing behind that camera taking the pictures.

As for the above fluff piece, billions of Yen later, we get CGI image, colour video of chute deployment, black and white shadow video (whose shadow seems so dark for a place so far away from the sun) and colour video shots from a studio sound stage or somewhere in the sahara. Money well spent on the masses and disinfo.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-07-01T21:50:31Z

JTF Truth My friend, if you've never read this, you will thank me, for I am confident that you are a SOTTite, which is 'truth before all other things.'

I present Dave McGowan (RIP) Moondoggie. [Link]
Learning truth should always be as fun and funny as possible. What a hero he was. I always wished to meet him.

R.C.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-07-01T21:53:10Z

JTF Truth But one part of his informative wit:

America’s first spacemen, the Mercury 7 astronauts, weighed an average of just 164 pounds each. They were, nevertheless, considered full-grown men. The average three-man Apollo crew, therefore, probably weighed in at just under 500 pounds. Nowadays, that same three-man crew would probably weigh in at closer to 800 pounds. In addition, they would need to take roughly twice the volume of food and water rations that were needed in the ‘60s, and much larger fecal collection bags.

It is doubtful, in other words, that even the mighty Saturn V could handle the additional load requirements brought on by America’s rampant gluttony.

Speaking of fecal collection bags , by the way, Buzz and Neil purportedly left a few of those behind at the fabled Tranquility Base. I mention that bit of trivia only because those bags now are – and, as hard as it may be to believe, this is absolutely true – well on their way to being declared national historic landmarks! The state of California, ever the trendsetter, got the ball rolling in January by declaring those excrement bags to be state ‘historical resources.’ Four more states are expected to follow suit by year’s end.

JTF Truth · 2021-07-01T22:52:15Z

Rowan Cocoan

if they could lie about that, they could lie about anything .

My moment was flat earth and their proofs. I don't fully believe how they've mapped it out is truly what we experience, but it was just a couple of proofs, such as how far you can actually see and the whole curvature arguement that made me realize the extent of the lies. I litterally went from omg to OMG this goes really deep for deceipt. As I explained earlier to you, I'm an odd sort who always made mental notes of things that don't fit what they tell us. I've always been coming across them reading history. Too many anomolies, left unexplained, disregarded or just not talked about.

Thanks for the link, I've got some more reading to do!

My favorite saying in the office has always been, "Well, I've learned something new today, I guess it's time to go home"

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-07-01T22:58:08Z

JTF Truth When you finish that, check out his Laurel Canyon/Hippy 60's Series. It's almost (but not quite) enough to make me stop listening to the music I love. [Link] Indeed, I first came across him when LKJ?/SOTT listed it here.

He's got lots else; [Link] he picked up super early on the scam that was and is 9/11/2001, and I frankly got that one figured out (actually, thoroughly disbelieved) super early, but not so much as as he did. [Link]
RC

JTF Truth · 2021-07-01T23:45:40Z

Rowan Cocoan My 911 story is this. I was on the subway that morning, read a tiny story on the subway rag, about some afgan rebel being released or killed, can't remember exactly, but I do remember exactly thinking, hmmm this is somekind of signal for someone. Don't know why I thought that, but I did. 45mins later in the office someone comes up from the trading floor and says a plane hit the WTC building. So I go downstairs and I'm just in time to see the second plane hit, and my brain tells me "They Knew, They Knew this was going to happen" I never said it out loud. I never believed anything they said that day. I never looked into it all, until the Spanish ran that story they did about the colapse.

Here is a truther I follow, on another subject [Link] he's got some really awesome pics of the areas he tapes from and the animals he has hunted (not the subject matter). In essence, this Sottite community is a similar Round Table. Him and David Paulides [Link] are definately documenting another piece of the bigger puzzle.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-07-02T00:37:59Z

JTF Truth Whoa! You actually saw it, in person? OMG! I've never even seen a plane crash.

Although there must be thousands of such folks, I've never met one. (The fact that I've never seen you previously bring it up, plus your prior comments, provides all the verisimilitude I need to believe it.*)

May I ask where were you relative to WTC1&2?*

I believe that you're speaking of the Lion of Panjshir, [Link] the head of the Northern Alliance who the PTB had to kill before they could go forward with 9/11/2001. To me, from what little I know, it sounded and sounds like he was a true countryman and patriot there.

Check WRH [Link] on such stuff, such as this. [Link]
RC

*Now if you tell me that you base jumped off of WTC7 just before it went down, I might start wondering....

As re this, infra:

They usually go blank as they digest that, then I ask them if they remember their first computer, late 80's early 90's and they go yeah. I inform them those too were even more powerful. They can't process the information and take it to the next level.

Amen, brother. I have almost given up on even hoping to find that solution. Sad.

rc

JTF Truth · 2021-07-02T03:46:11Z

JTF Truth Whoa! You actually saw it, in person? OMG! I've never even seen a plane crash.

No, I was on our Trading floor in Toronto, saw it on the traders TVs.. My immediate manager was 8 blocks away from WTC that day. 2 Directors from the trading floor I was on, were at WTC early that morning but fortunately were then just at Laguardia on their way back to Canada when the first plane hit. My company lost people that day. The only time I;ve ever been to NYC was a little over a month before 911. I was only there 8 hrs, flew in and out. I was at Trump Plaza on wall street (more like an ally if you ask me, you should avoid it. ;)) .

Yes, he was the guy who;s story I read that day. Nice find! It said he was an engineer. Which reminds me ...I had a Palestinian classmate in university. We had to give these little group speaches, so naturally he spoke of the Palestinians. He said what a lot of people don't know, is that most of their leaders are Civil Engineers. But yeah that was the story I read that day and I thought immediately that it was a signal of some such. I don't know why, gut feeling I guess.

Yeah, thanks for the links. I think Oil was the driver for the rush to Afganistan.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-07-02T03:54:10Z

JTF Truth I forget the name of the TX? oil company? associated with the Bushits as I recall, but there was the statement UNOCAL! that was it.

The words were 'You can have a carpet of gold, or a carpet of bombs.' or such. WRH is a great source for such things. [Link] Indeed, I found SOTT back around 2006? I don't know, because WRH linked an LKJ article. Definitely worth a bookmark.

RC

weeman666 · 2021-07-03T17:43:12Z

Rowan Cocoan The best link ever RC,thank you my friend! Also at the risk(again) of repeating myself :- 'the moon's diameter is 2,160 m,earth's diameter is 7,920 m =combined radii of 5,040 m,which is Plato's absolutely perfect number. It also happens that the moon is exactly 400 hundred times smaller than the sun that happens to be exactly 400 hundred times further away(coincidence?)and the seconds in each day(86,400) divided by 2,160 = 40. Fluke or what?

JTF Truth · 2021-07-01T21:36:05Z

I've had conversations with my fellow men/women throughout the years. I always throw them a truth, when talking about space and in particular the moon landings, just to see their reactions, especially in the last 25 years. I like to point to their cell phone and tell them, what you are holding in your hand, is more powerful and advanced, than the computer that got the astroturf-naughts into space. They usually go blank as they digest that, then I ask them if they remember their first computer, late 80's early 90's and they go yeah. I inform them those too were even more powerful. They can't process the information and take it to the next level.

sbc · 2021-07-02T13:56:23Z

Sarcasm is oft missed.

Dark humor is like food during communism.

Not everyone gets it.

oldschoolrider · 2021-07-03T09:52:10Z

ok, really, if humans were meant to live on mars, they would be born there, end of story!!

all the cash being wasted on such futile dreams could in reality end poverty, hunger, and homelessness in every country on the planet, not including mars ffs..

but as we know, this is pure entertainment on all, if not, most levels, otherwise, humans will never ever live or survive on another planet, just look at what they have done to this one, and really.. so not deserving of a newer cleaner but older round rock as they say to inhabit..

HashAttack2 · 2021-07-03T10:28:54Z

oldschoolrider It's a really cool worldwide scam ... virtually every country participates in some "space" program with the typical cost per citizen running between $5 and $10 per year

e.g. JAXA / Japan

Budget: 157 billion Yen

Population: 125 million

Average per citizen: 1,250 Yen == $11 US

oldschoolrider ·

HashAttack2

· 2021-07-03T10:58:05Z

oldschoolrider · 2021-07-03T11:08:26Z

honestly i think people want to go live on other planets because they are so sick and tired, fed up and pissed off with whats gone on here, and yet, they are not so fit to do so, and never ever will be fit to do so,

ie, killing of near extinct animals for a fashion idea, fuel for a piece of shit vehicle that crumples up on low speed, food, oh wtf, the novelty wears off fast when 3-5 places cook the same thing and only 1 get it to your liking, etc,

can go on but wont, as theres a bee somewhere looking to pollinate a flower to help the earth, and its my job to make sure the weeds grow, as theres way too many plastic roses..

when man is no longer fit for the earth, as has happened millennia ago, thousands of yrs passed before again man arose from the ashes, this cycle will forever repeat, the earth can go back to how she first was without man, as she doesnt need man to survive, man needs the earth to survive, and he is clearly and surely taking the piss, with the common mass acceptation of the worlds pollies and so called leaders, as they are first to enter the grinder, back to dust you go, alive or not, as you arseholes seem fit, and deserve such..

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