Yeah another Dreksler video!!!!!! Keep it up with topics you’re totally into. Your voice, the background music + atmosphere in general is all rhyming blissfully!
Great video - I really enjoyed that. I never realised that the surface of Mars was quite so big and complex. Wonderful for the imagination. I love your stuff on planets and moons. Every different planet and moon is like the setting for a unique sci-fi story. 🚀🚀
Dreksler, Just a point of English (you are doing so well on this video, but this one thing stands out). These are the two expressions that you should use. "How it looks." "What it looks LIKE". But don't put the two together: "HOW it looks LIKE". XXX wrong! :) You consistently put them together, and you shouldn't. :( So, if you start with "how", don't add "like". But if you start wth "what" then you want to add "like". We can take these two expressions apart so you can see why: How does it look? This is how it looks. (adverbial usage) What does it look like? It looks like this (what). (prepositional usage) While everyone understands you when you accidentally blend them, it still sounds wrong, and when you use them correctly, you will sound so much better! Thanks for a very good tour of the various landing sites on Mars!
My mind is blown!!! The whole land area of Earth 🌎 is the same size as all of Mars!!! All that space on Mars and NASA keeps dropping the rovers and landers in the same area, why not explore more of Mars???
Unfortunately the rovers wouldn’t be able to see much as they drive really slow, and they prefer going to craters that used to be lakes, and ancient river beds. But who knows? Maybe one will go there soon!
ELECTRICITY is what shaped the surface of Mars. The Dendritic & Lichtenberg scares are every where on Mars, there are HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of them and many at 19:59. That is what made Valles Marinaris too.
my dude, thats the shape of the paths made when something takes the path of least resistance. water forms those shapes (think the grand canyon, chesapeake bay, the coastline of southern alaska/british columbia, fjords in scandanavia).
@@dzhang4459 If you think in the Box, you stay in the Box, but you are right. Electricity only works on your dildo, and not on Mars. But explains how the out-flow channels caused by flowing water are lower than what they are filling?
Not likely, at the moment. Elon Musk will have to wake up soon. He can even develope the best rocket motor of all time; it won't work with chemical propulsion. Still better to dream on. If nuclear propulsion becomes real, then we will reach Mars soon after. It is promissed for 2027. Not only NASA/DARPA, but also by 2 English companies. Perhaps I may even live long enough to see a human land on Mars.
@@rustyshackleford234 perhaps. What matters most is that when we do go, that we are ready. Ready to deal with all the dangers and unpredictable eventualities. Otherwise, our crew will not be coming back.
This is the best information source of Mars I have ever seen. Thank you so much Dreksler. Love to see another tour of other geographic locations on the planet.
Money, the amount of different things of scientific interest, and risk. First of all, scientists would love to send rovers all over mars but the money and time simply isn't there to do so. We have to be incredibly strategic about where we put these missions. Sending a Rover to a Martian volcano may provide a bit of spectacle, but the amount of different science that can be done there is limited. You could drive the rover around for dozens of kilometers and all you would see is more volcano, and more volcanic rock. Volcanos are a more localized and geologically recent thing, so it covers up a lot of surface which could have been giving us hints as to the geological history of the area. A canyon would have a lot more potential, but it would be about the single most difficult terrain on Mars to navigate that I can think of. The rover would be more at risk, too. Even with some crazy nontraditional Rover design, a steep mountain provides many more opportunities for a rover to get stuck or damaged than on a flat plain. The areas which our rovers have landed are relatively flat with few large obstacles because it mitigates risk and ensures that our incredibly expensive piece of technology can continue to function. The exposed soils and bedrock allow for us to measure and sample Mars in great detail. Scientists don't need spectacular views the same way the public would like them. TL;DR Our rovers go to seemingly "boring" places because they are low risk for a high reward over time. Our rovers stay safe and can continue to work in scientifically interesting and varied locations. While scientists would absolutely love to send rovers all over Mars, the resources simply aren't there to do so, and thus we have to make the absolute most out of the few missions we can get.
A fascinating planet, but not one that I believe Humans will ever wish to colonize. Perhaps we should leave this place in the hands of the AI. Let them do something with it.
It's the place to go if we want to have a lot of innovation in terms of genetic engineering done quickly, after all, learning how to make black lichen that grows on ice and thrives in near-vacuum is a great idea, so is adapting lichen to thrive on the land of Mars and ameliorate the Perchlorate problems.
