You have got to watch this:
The LA Times writes:
You may have seen video of Curiosity’s descent before, but you haven’t seen it like this — with the craters on Mars rendered in high definition, the contrast amped up, and the whole thing set to a string score by Kevin Macleod that helps heighten the grandeur, and also the loneliness, of the rover’s descent to the red planet.
(Never underestimate the importance of a soundtrack!)
Consider it the Mars Curiosity descent post-production video. It’s like the original, but better.
The video was put together by Dominic Muller, known on Reddit as Godd2, reports iO9.
On the video’s YouTube page Muller explains that he used an editing technique called frame interpolation, which allowed him to take the original choppy video released by NASA and smooth it out. He writes that it took him four straight days to put it together.
You can find a thorough and technical explanation of how Muller made this video on Reddit.
Or you can just watch this over and over again and think about how awesome Mars looks.
As one commenter wrote, “It’s weird that we’re looking at another world.”
Read more at www.latimes.com