[X] My Assistant

[SFJCody]

Can anyone spot the sources for all the planetary images in this music video? They make heavy use of Spirit pans but there's a lot of other stuff in there.

[imipak]

Wow, that's a great bassline, might have to note down the name for future reference...

Obviously the opening shot includes a bit of the "Pillars of Creation" HST image; that dissolves into what looks like an animated version of Eta Carinae; then we have a nice regional view of Valles Marineris (but what's that funny looking moon? Is it... a "fixed in post" Titan?) The scene where the spaceship crashes on Mars has to be Spirit - is that the West Spur? Nice to see there's enough oxygen available to support combustion and a nice big cloud of smoke. Then I think a completely composited image of a rocky landscape... Barringer Crater... the north(?) side of Home Plate... then it's more totally composite shots. The "mirage spaceship" that turns back into a big rock seems to be sitting on fairly generic Meridiani bedrock - south of Victoria? - though the mirage-rock itself looks like a composite of earth formations. The "Voyage to Trip-Out City" sequence doesn't look much like anything I've seen since the 80s, apart from the Grand Canyon. And the final shot is a reference to the movie "The Lawnmower Man".

The animators have an HD version for download on their site: http://www.threeleggedlegs.com/repertoire/nasa/ (430Mb! Even out here in the sticks, though, where we've had to fight hard to get 2Mb/sec DSL, my browser's estimating it ~35 minutes. Where's my flying car?!)

[ynyralmaen]

Showing my age, and most of the clips are from manned missions and training, but this video - MARRS, not Mars, from the 80's has some rarely-seen snippets of simulations of a few planetary probes, including Galileo with an unfurled antenna!