Thanks!

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Thanks once again for your generous support of this channel! Your patronage continues to motivate me to keep it going.

They really did need to include a "Poke it with a stick" instrument on Perseverance.

Castles made of sand fall apart eventually.. I see what you did there!

@NuisanceMan

8 күн бұрын

No, not fall apart. Slip into the sea. But Mars has no seas. What does it all mean?

@itzed

8 күн бұрын

Fall in the sea….. eventually.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Yes, riffing on Jimi without a sea to invoke!

@stevefink6000

7 күн бұрын

Best Hendrix album!

I appreciate these geology lessons!

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Glad you do!

Drive boldly Persy, where Angel's leave no tread!

I know I've said this before, but I really mean it when I say these videos are the best on KZread. They are well thought through and I have learned so much about Mars and rocks! You explain it much like a college teacher. You always make it interesting with the words you use. When I first subscribed, I was one of only a few. Normally I watch several videos before subscribing, but I didn't even finish one video before I subscribed. Thanks Mars Guy for the awesome videos!

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Wow, thanks for the encouraging feedback! So happy to know people are engaged by this content.

Thanx for your and Simeons work, you both are a great team!

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

And thank you for showing your support for this channel. Much appreciated!

@stevefink6000

7 күн бұрын

@@MarsGuy I get the casles made of sands reference, eventually . haha

Thanx for showing the "sand castle" - I missed it, Perseverance for me was to fast these days to examine all pictures in detail! Its hard to imagine, that many ripple dunes wandered over it without breaking it down. The comparison of the mineral veins with those at Atacama Desert is genius! Can't wait till next week I hope to hear your comment on the dark spots in the mudstone they found today in the abrasion patch! Have a nice week!

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Thanks for your kind words and for following the journey!

Mars Guy, you are making me fall in love with rocks and wanting to know more. I want a zoom-in of every rock in that long panorama! I never would have thought that I'd care about rocks as much as you are making me care.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Thanks for your encouraging words and show of appreciation. I'm pleased to know you now care about rocks!

You're dating yourself Dr Ruff. Jimi would be proud 👍 Many moons have past and Percy keeps on going. Thanks for the update. 🔴

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

All true, thanks!

One of your best episodes. That sandcastle looks like something from a Star Trek matte painting

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Great, so glad you liked it!

Glad to see some good distance! It was slow going for a while, good to see the terrain has cleared up

can't start Sunday without Mars Guy

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Glad you do!

I love the sand castle! I missed all the references you made. Thanks to the other commenters, I was clued in to them. Ahh, but the dumb in me had to go look them all up. I may not understsnd them, but I love them. I'm trying to figure out how that's possible, but there it is. In so many many ways your channel is the BEST! Not only do I get updates on what Perseverance is up to, I also get a bit of cultural education. Thank you, Mars Guy! I also want to thank the other commenter's for their enlightenment as well.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Ha, glad you're enjoying the dual learning! And yes, I was very intentionally conjuring lyrics from a Jimi Hendrix song.

Absolutely fascinating. The erosion mechanisms are particularly intriguing. Great update Mars Guy. Thank you

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

So glad you're intrigued! Thanks as always for watching.

Good morning MG it’s great to see the comparisons between Earth and Mars,water and wind created castles in the sand. Jimi would be proud.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Glad you got it!

Your thoughtful commentary and theories really make these spectacular photos come alive. 👍🏻

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Thanks for that feedback!

Thank You Mars Guy! This castle-shape rock is super unique! Now it is just matter of decades so we may preserve it in the current form:)

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

It would be interesting to see how much longer it holds up. Erosion is pretty slow on Mars.

I'm so happy Percy has made it into the river valley freeway, so to speak 🏎

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Me too!

Great update! I hope to see many more.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Thanks and keep watching!

So many fascinating discoveries to be made!

Thank you for another great episode. The only thing missing was "Mars Guy for scale" TM on those Arizona pix 😊.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Ha, that would require Earth Guy for scale!

I'm really liking your smooth transitions between images of the same view but with the change from lower to higher resolution, so that you can then zoom in further on that part of the scene. It works really well and just adds a next level of quality to the videos. Thanks MG.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Thanks for noticing! I appreciate the feedback, thanks.

Nice nod to Hendrix.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Glad you liked (and got) it.

Wow. Fascinating as always. These videos always make me feel like I'm there on Mars, with Perseverance. Great work again, Mars Guy!

@MarsGuy

6 күн бұрын

Thanks for the encouraging feedback!

very nice work tying overhead views to closeups and inserting items for scale. thanks.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Thanks, glad you appreciate this.

@iggyzorro2406

7 күн бұрын

@@MarsGuy Sure do

Liked the comparisons. And the photo from orbit and the one snapshot taken from nearby on the Martian ground.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Great, glad you do, thanks!

I look forward to these videos every week! I watch them with my daughter and we love them - especially the scale references.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

So glad to learn this, thanks!

Most excellent as usual, as is your taste in music.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Ha, thanks, glad you appreciate it!

Great episode, especially the comparison to earthly features that look similar (like the veins) helps a lot to understand how normal some of the „weird“ views really are and the conclusions that can be drawn by professionals like yourself. Looks like NASA did indeed pick a great spot to search for traces of microbiological live, with all the formations repeatedly indicating water during their formation… what’s your bet that we will eventually find fossilized microbes or some other proof of life on mars ?

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Thanks, glad you appreciate this content. Regarding fossilized microbes, my favorite candidate is still the opaline silica rocks found by Spirit in Gusev crater. They probably were formed by hot springs, which is a great way to preserve microbes, IF Mars ever had life.

I love this show!!! Good honest science! I've come to nearly believe the Mars guy is really kneeling on Mars😂😂 . Great science!!

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Glad you appreciate this content. Thanks!

Very cool MG. Thank you.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

And thank you!

What an amazing landscape.🙂🙂

Another outstanding video!!!!!! thank you so much!!!!

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Thanks as always!

Four or five bigger green rounded pebbles ( olivine?, peridot? ) around the first abrasion patch on "Bright Angel" unit. Some conclusions could be drawn from the following "clues": There are more "Bright Angels" upstream, they could be due to eddies, to the inertia of the water loaded with sediments of the most varied sizes, some that traveled a lot and others that broke off right there and went to the bottom buried more ridged without suffering the rounding of water? There could be clues in the rock markings: crescents (bumps), snake-like (high speed), muting, and wind erosion like flutes, spindles, etc.

i think "anticline: bold as love" was the b-side of "martian castle magic". thank you for your wonderful series of videos.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Ha good one! Thanks for watching and riffing on Jimi.

@althomas6045

6 күн бұрын

​@@MarsGuyit was almost as much fun as watching your videos.

At 0:52 to 1:04 there is something in the sky!

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

It's actually an artifact in the left Navcam camera and appears in other images from it.

That knarly eroded sandstone looks similar to that of the West Bay cliffs in Dorset.

I'd say it's more of a large boulder the size of a small boulder, to quote the San Miguel Sheriff.

I saw that sand hill as a "censored" area at first, it just looked blurry. Then I realized it was a real sand hill. Then I thought, that kind of looks like a clever way to blur out something they didn't want us to see? :) Thanks for the video!

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Ha, no "censored" areas! Thanks for watching.

Great episode, Mars Guy! 😅 Martian kids making castles on the beach... 😏 I wonder if the angled/sharp-edged rocks were also transported there by water but over a shorter distance... 🤔

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

I think they may all be sedimentary rocks that become more jagged with erosion unlike most igneous/volcanic rocks that become smoothed.

He shows Mars Guy for scale, but he forgets to mention that he's actually a giant who is several times bigger than ordinary human beings.

@kiereluurs1243

7 күн бұрын

No-no-no, he is actually an Ant-Man!

It just kept going.

thank you for a wonderful chanel.

Wow, I didn’t know that Percy could get to the Bright Angel outcrop so quickly after reaching the north side of the valley. Those veins in the sandstone in your Earth photo look almost exactly the same as the ones on Mars, so it is a great comparison. The process of formation must be similar.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Yeah, it was fun to see the similarity. Still no guarantee that it's the same process, but a good candidate.

The 'object' in the sky is an artifact from the image processing, not real. If you check the raw images you'll see what is causing it.(Parts of the raw images are blocked by the camera mounts) You Tube keeps blocking my attempts to include a link.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Yes, it's an artifact, but it's in the left Navcam and appears in the same spot for all images.

Rite Mars Dude, Soo glad you included the Arizona butes, you just know the conspiracy guys will have a field day. The little sand castle... who said Martians are big 🤔😂 TFS, GB :)

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Ha, sometimes Mars vs. Earth is beyond conspiracy!

@ 0.59- 1.04 thing in the sky ...did everyone miss it ...???

@fergoka

8 күн бұрын

Martian sandhopper minding his own business. 3:41 also has something on it.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

It's actually an artifact in the left Navcam camera and appears in other images from it.

Regardless of the location on Mars, when looking at the terrain, one word comes to mind, shattered.

@jonnekjonneksson

8 күн бұрын

Yes, too many broken boulders, cut in half like something fell on them, is that what you mean?

Castles in the air indeed. Nice one M.G. JPM 🚀👍🇬🇧😎

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Thanks 👍

pretty cool thanks for sharing. Charles

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it, thanks.

Fascinating "castle", like some little alien sat there and built it, but sad it's sitting there all alone, poor thing! At least we got to see it 😄thanks!

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Ha, if only there were Martians involved!

Excellent

Thanks 👍

It's fun how the water erosion looks so similar to termite Mounds on the inside I had a house once that the wood was so eat and it looked like several chunks of the Mars Rock LOL

Hendrix! Jimi would have loved this.

@kiereluurs1243

7 күн бұрын

He knew, of course! After some hallucinatives.

I'm not a geologist, but I do wonder if the large grey rocks are iron rich minerals, like hematite. It might explain their dark grayish colour and resilience against erosion.

The patterns on those sand stones remind me very much of the Desert Rose stones I have seen in Saudi Arabia

The dark grey rock looks like shattered fragments of pahoehoe basaltic lava flow. And perhaps the little vertical formation, considering the scale and associated dune, is a fulgerite.

Seeing that boulder from space made me wonder what Mars Guy would look like from space too... just for scale of course.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Ha ha. His shadow might be visible, but otherwise below resolution.

When Mars had a magnetic presence in the past, did it also have volcanoes that are known? Because those rocks at 2:40 do just look like that an amature like me 🙂 Thanks Mars guy for your videos and teachings. Cheers 👍💪✌

@_John_P

8 күн бұрын

Mars has the largest known extinct volcano in the solar system, Mons Olympus, two and a half times taller than Mount Everest. Also, there are the famous three aligned extinct volcanoes near Mons Olympus: Ascraeus Mons (over two times taller than Everest), Pavonis Mons (1 and half times taller than Everest) and Arsia Mons (one third taller than Everest).

@rjung_ch

8 күн бұрын

@@_John_P thanks!

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Mars does indeed have volcanoes, as noted by John_P, and many more beyond those. They date back to the first half-billion years or so and some are known that may be a few 100s of millions of years old.

Bright Angel has turned out to have some unique features. Perhaps attributable to it once being the site of fast flowing water? By the way, did Persey take a core of the white rock you showed in an earlier episode? At the time, I thought it might be caliche encrustation, common here in Arizona.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

No sample of that light-toned rock was taken, unfortunately. The team did report that it's composed of feldspar and pyroxene, so definitely not caliche.

WOW Thanks

Fall into the sea, eventually those dark rocks look like meteorites, especially that big one. 2:36

You're making me miss Monument Valley!

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Good!

What a surprise found on Mars (0:13). Thank you Mars Guy for relating geology found on Mars (1:20), with that found on Earth (Atacama Desert, 1:30). Without knowing in advance, it could be hard to tell which photo was taken where in the solar system.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Yeah, it's fun to make these comparisons. It's the reason I do fieldwork.

Nice ❤🎉

The dark rocks seem to resemble ice build up on the lee side, or ,...eddy erosion ...look a golden wing ship is passing my way ... superb.County Durham, England.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Ha, good one!

_"But it's tiny"_ HEY! We don't know how tall the Martians were/are! It could be massive by comparison... 😏😅

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Ha ha!

Judging by the shadow, I guess that the dark stone ist behind and not on top of the red one. 🤔

3:11 IS THAT A FULGURITE!!!??? (Petrified Lightning?) Or does it just look a LOT like it? -edit: The explanation you gave also suffices, but it really does look like a fulgurite.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

It does look a bit like that, but eroded layers like those of the nearby rocks seems more likely.

0:59 WHAT IS THAT IN THE SKY??? Top middle left.

@kiereluurs1243

7 күн бұрын

Bird of course. Otherwise: Martian on his air-bike.

@alifesh

7 күн бұрын

@@kiereluurs1243 I know right? I saw him respond to another comment saying it is an image stitching anomaly. But how funny it would have been if it was an alien drone photographing the area and their people were also committing "WHAT IS THAT SHINNY THING ON THE GROUND? " lol

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

It's actually an artifact in the left Navcam camera and appears in other images from it.

Couldn't the roundness of the black rocks at 2:44 be due to this being a meter, rather than erosion?

can you make a video of sol 34 of opportuny special product from the analyst notebook

"Castles in the sand." Wonder if Ozymandias will be found next?

Why aren't we seeing rocks and pebbles rounded by water action? Seems to me not much water flowed there.

@jackmacdonald8499

8 күн бұрын

Good point. Seems like an odd of combination of features: some associated with water and some associated with an absence of water.

It's a little tiny castle built by little tiny Martians.

Could the dark smooth rocks be fragments of a asteroid that crashed into the planet?

Happy Father's Day!

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Thanks!

martian termites i’m calling it

The smooth basalt (from hundreds of millions of years of weak wind erosion) makes sense -- the tan stuff is all like. _uh, hmm, OK_. ... Boring sandstone, apparently

And now Hendrix references. I will excuse you while you kiss the sky 🙏

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Ha, nice!

There's something in the sky seen at 0.59 secs in. What is that?

How cool would it be if it caught an impact! Do NASA track Mars impactors?

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Fresh impact craters have been imaged from orbit.

@S-T-E-V-E

7 күн бұрын

@@MarsGuy They haven't caught the impact on camera though, just the aftermath! I'm talking a Meteor hitting the ground caught by the Rover! So do they track Mars impactors?

Aliens 🤷‍♀️

Jimmy Hendrix plateu!

Err....at 1:00, what's that thing in the sky??🧐

@MarsGuy

Күн бұрын

Left Navcam camera artifact in all images.

Fossils fossils everywhere...but not a mind to see.

What is that in the sky at the 0:59 mark?

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

It's actually an artifact in the left Navcam camera and appears in other images from it.

Down the street....

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Correct

What's in the sky at :56?

Is there anything on Mars that is truly alien i.e nothing like it on Earth? To layman, it all just looks like a desert on Earth

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

CO2 ice at the poles is one thing.

And if 6 was 9...🎸

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Nice!

Why don't you add a comedy element to "Mars Guy For Scale?" Put him in a tiny glass pressure dome with board shorts, umbrella, and a pina colada? Or Mars Guy, tripped, on his knees with the helmet having fallen off, rolled away, and him desperately crawling towards it ....., and so on?

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Ha, no! Just not my thing.

1:01 What is that in the sky? One of the Martian moons?

@raybeauvais296

8 күн бұрын

It first becomes visible at :47. It is most likely corrupt data. A moon would be a brighter pixel due it reflecting sunlight.

@Kris_Lighthawk

8 күн бұрын

@@raybeauvais296 It is visible at 0:44, right from the start of that picture. I don't think a moon would be very bright in full daylight. It could of course just be something on the camera lens... Assuming this is all from one picture, I am not sure if it is a blend from more than one picture, if so it really is something in the sky (since corrupt data would also not show up at the same place in more than one picture)

@raybeauvais296

8 күн бұрын

@@Kris_Lighthawk That is single processed image stitched together from several other images. The 'object' does not appear in the raw images. search for: Navcam sol 1175 10 june 2024 You tube is killing my post with the working link try this: add https to the front. mars. nasa. gov/ mars2020/ multimedia/raw-images/

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

It's actually an artifact in the left Navcam camera and appears in other images from it.

Prove it's Mars

@kiereluurs1243

7 күн бұрын

All in a studio! I knew it. Now I wil have a beanut-butter-banana-bacon-sandwich with Elvis.

@czarcastic1458

7 күн бұрын

@@kiereluurs1243 crunchy or creamy peanut butter?

What is that thing in the sky about one minute in after mars guy measures the big rock. Dust on the lense? Does it appear in other shots?

Mars is facinatingly boring.

Are people so gullible that they believe these are actually pics of Mars? This is gullibility on full display.

@papasmurfette007

8 күн бұрын

Gullible are the people who instantly associate anything they don't like or don't want to see with some sort of conspiracy. The cult of conspiracy has got you good...

@_John_P

8 күн бұрын

Can you show exactly where from Earth the 2 million pictures from all the rovers came from? Can you show how is it possible that Mars orbital images match rover ground images if the rovers are on Earth?

👍🏻. Thank you Mars Guy.

@MarsGuy

7 күн бұрын

Thanks again for watching.