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[paxdan]

We've all seen the excellent work Daniel Maas has done in animating the MERs and other missions. This link is to a video of the MER Lauch, Cruise, EDL and surface operation we are familar with, however, it is set to Sunspot by NIN. The music syncs up very well and it is well worth a viewing on that basis alone.

I am posting a new topic because i couldn't find a thread dedicated to the work of Maas.

[djellison]

I've just remembered - I saw an odd animation that looked like the 2001 animation he did, but it deployed little flying bots that went off and collected samples - I can't find it anymore, but it was very interesting.

You know - I don't think it's an exageration to say that without Dan's earliest animation of MER ( with the round-edges solar arrays ) - MER might never have happened and we might have had MRO in '03 and something else in '05 - I honestly think that bit of animation was just enough to get the senior NASA management and politicians to go "we can do that? COOL....let's build one"

Doug