What have the Mars Rovers seen?

[El_Machinae]

Lots. Lots and lots. And at different scales.

We can learn from photos, but we learn better from videos. So, NASA has compiled some videos of what the Rovers have seen and made them available. But they didn't need to use the Rover footage; they used the footage from the MRO.

We can expect things like this to get better and more detailed.

New 3D 'flyovers' let viewers swoop down on Mars

Dramatic virtual flyovers of NASA's two Mars rover landing sites have been made using 3D imagery from the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The flyovers give a first taste of the probe's astoundingly precise 3D mapping abilities and may help the Opportunity rover find a safe path into the yawning chasm of Victoria crater.
The images were made using the most powerful camera ever sent to another planet, MRO's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE).
The three-dimensional information is obtained by taking pairs of images from slightly different vantage points as the spacecraft orbits the Red Planet.

The first video is Here and the second video is Here. They're .mov files

In one flyover , we circle around the 800-metre-wide Victoria crater, swooping down past a virtual Opportunity rover and into the crater itself, then skim over the dunes on its floor and climb up the opposite crater wall.
In the other flyover, we soar across the cratered plains that the Spirit rover spent months trekking across, eventually floating by the rugged Columbia hills, where the rover is currently wandering.

I should remind people that there's a space elevator competition for 2007, too.

 

[Phlegmak]

The Mars rovers have seen total awesomeness. Go USA!

 

[classical_hero]

I would assume that it has seen lots and lots of dust.

 

[Phlegmak]

I would assume that it has seen lots and lots of dust.

The dust is just particles of awesomeness.

 

[Serutan]

The most awesome thing about the rovers is that they have operated for over 3 years now. Given that they were designed for 3 months each, the bang for the buck is really, really good. Though not quite as good a Voyager.

 

[MobBoss]

http://www.transformersmovie.com/

 

[El_Machinae]

MobBoss!

 

[MobBoss]

MobBoss!

Was hoping you would like that.

 

[Masquerouge]

Wait there are clouds on Mars or was that just artistic license in the first video?

 

[Serutan]

I don't think Mars has clouds like we have, but a dust storm might give the appearance of cloudiness.