Curiosity Rover to Aggravate Martians With Pop Music
Johnathan Grey Carter | 28 August 2012 3:35 am
The Curiosity rover is going to broadcast will.i.am's Reach for the Stars from the surface of Mars.
NASA's Curiosity rover is currently trundling about the surface of mars, taking holiday snaps, shooting rocks with lasers and generally furthering man's understanding of the red planet and, by extension, the universe. But the common man doesn't care about any of that, oh no. He has only one question: Can it play phat beats? And the answer is yes. Yes it can.
At 4pm EDT, tomorrow, Curiosity will broadcast Reach for the Stars, a new track from rapper, will.i.am. The song, along with a presentation from Curiosity's landing team, will be shown to students at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
"I know the sky might be high, but baby it ain't really that high," goes the song. "I know that Mars might be far, but baby it ain't really that far. Let's reach for the stars."
Then professional shouter, Lil Jon, tells you to put your hands up. Twice.
Working frame-by-frame, it took me four weeks to produce this video. It was a labor of love. You can support my efforts with a donation or just let me know that you enjoyed it.
Ultra-resolution, smooth-motion, detail-enhanced, color-corrected, interpolated from the original 4 frames per second to 30 frames per second. This video plays real-time at the speed that Curiosity descended to the surface of Mars on August 6, 2012.
I think it's wonderful that everyone on Earth has a chance to see this amazing footage from Mars :)
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