Ha, well, a very small chance I suppose! I think humans on Mars is still ten or more years out. But thanks again for being such a consistent supporter of this channel and expressing your interest in Mars exploration. It's encouraging on multiple levels.
Thank you Mars Guy for all the wonderful episodes in 2024. I hope you and family and all our friends on this channel have a nice Christmas and Happy New Year.
Thank you for helping me remember to take a moment to appreciate the technological marvel of looking at a panoramic photo of a Martian sunset taken only a few days ago, from my living room. Music was a nice touch 🤩
Wow! What a beautiful sight, even from a cameras point of view. I was reminded of the vista I saw many times as a child when cresting the El Cajon pass at night and seeing an undeveloped Antelope Valley bathed in moonlight. The buttes were a beautiful thing to see in that light. That is a sight that no longer exists except in my memory. Thank you for taking me back there for a moment.
What an eerie scene. Made me think of how vast and empty of life (as we know it) our universe is. But when life get’s a foothold, it does so in great abundance. Sure would be amazing to discover it outside of earth.
One night in 1948 I sat atop Winding Stair Mountain near the border of Arkansas and Oklahoma and watched the sun set. At some point I took a photo with a Cannon 110 instamatic camera, a lovely camera in an awful format, but somehow that image lives on in my mind and in countless & insufficient digital replications. Sometimes you really have to be there. I am no Musk-fan, no myth-writer, but sometimes just being present is greater than writing stories about it. I do hope that the man and his friends get to experience the sights and the flavor of space. Vacuum is more entertaining than they may anticipate.
@@MarsGuy Maybe 4K might do the trick next time? TH-cam gives a higher bitrate to 4K, so even if you have a 1080p video, if you just render it to 4K, then on yt, it will look far better. A trick from my wasted youth of computer gaming, for the best space channel.
Good morning MG the music is as great but we still need to hear you narrate what we patiently wait for every Sunday morning. The views just keep getting better. Thank you
Merry Christmas, @Mars Guy. We used to talk about living on the edge of night and day on the moon and alien planets. Now that I see this twilight region, that seems impossible for human beings. The gloomy dark shadow is too dark to work or to give us hope for the new day. Just watching these videos for years makes long for home.
@MarsGuy -- Exactly. Dorothy learned that lesson the hard way. Mars is exciting -- but I wouldn't want to live there. Certainly not at one trillion dollars. @MarsGuy, thanks for telling this story, and Happy Holidays. 🇺🇸🧙🏽♂️💙
These updates are great. Mars guy is the greatest scientific visual innovation in 50 years to understand the scale of these images. Maybe you could throw more Mars people in the distance or standing on top of distant rims and peaks?🤞
Thanks for this excellent content and it’s great to see your subs moving in the right direction. Huge compliments of the season to you and yours. How huge? Here’s Mars Guy for scale.
The eerie light 20 minutes after sunset on Mars is beautiful with the many mountains in various distances from this high location. I agree with others that the music is excellent.
I wanted to take a moment to say Thank You and Merry Christmas, I really look forwards to your videos every week, especially love this one with the music and the eerie twilight vista. ❤
Nice touch with the music! I always look forward to your weekly video. Thank you so much! I hope you and yours have Happy Holidays and I wish you joy, health, and success in 2025.
This has to be an TH-cam first ... an alien holiday light show and music from another planet. Happy holidays Mars Guy and thanks for sharing many GIFs.
Thank You Mars Guy! Sadly, low illumination is not working good with video compression algorithm. Seeing this live would be.... ekhm.... EXTRATERRESTRIAL experience!
Thank you for the last shot and the music. More so that normal, it made me wonder what it would feel like to be sitting there watching this with my own eyes
Thanks Steve for another year of clear factual Mars science reporting. When the astronauts get to Mars, they'll discover they weren't the first, because "Here's Mars Guy for scale" :-)
Wow. Imagine the first human who will stand on Mars and be awestruck by that night time sky! Thanks for stepping away from the science for a few moments to just appreciate the strange beauty of another world!
Thanks for excellent vignette on mars light. It got me wondering just how bright (or gloomy) a sunny day on mars would seem to actual eyeballs (rather than in light-level-adjusted post-fixed camera images.)
Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. If you could answer one question what’s the visibility on Mars on average? From these pictures it looks to be maybe 5 to 10 miles at Best. Thanks again, Mike from Montreal.
Thanks for that. And, I haven't seen any numbers on visibility, but it's highly variable depending on how much dust there is in the atmosphere. Right now it's not especially clear, but the most distant features visible in this scene are about 60 km (~37 miles) away.
"Here's Mars Guy looking at the Martian sunset with his back to the camera in a movie-poster-esque pose for dramatic effect." Now we need a time-laps video of a Martian sunset for content creators and independent film makers to use as a stock asset.
Honestly? this looks like the modern cities skies that have a lots of white LED lights and gets cloudy... It really looks like this (the light pollution is a modern problem)
Wait... So, in that final image, the sun is well BELOW the horizon? And what we are seeing is an "eerie twilight glow" due to light scattered by dust high in the atmosphere? Is that right?
In all this time ⏲️ , has it not recorded or witnessed any other worldly activity? Like checking it out for what it is ? An unmanned remotely controlled vehicle from another planet ? Ours
I will venture a guess and say that the Blue Pearl is Earth. Although the Martian sky is a hazy blue at sunset, looking at Earth from space, there is no better description of what it is in my mind. I wish more of us could have this perspective: Earth, as this precious oasis, in the cold naked dark of space. Looking at Martian landscapes accentuates what we have in Earth even more. Although water once flowed on Mars when it still had much of its atmosphere and was more temperate, it is now a dry cold desert, with a harsh climate, far more deadly than anything Earth can muster.
...Any chance that Mars Guy will ever actually be On mars ??
Ha, well, a very small chance I suppose! I think humans on Mars is still ten or more years out. But thanks again for being such a consistent supporter of this channel and expressing your interest in Mars exploration. It's encouraging on multiple levels.
Thank you Mars Guy for all the wonderful episodes in 2024. I hope you and family and all our friends on this channel have a nice Christmas and Happy New Year.
Thanks for that. Glad to have you as a regular viewer.
The music was well chosen. Thank you for keeping this channel going. I eagerly await each episode.
Thanks, glad you liked the music. And more episodes to come.
Thank you Mars Guy for sharing your passion and showing us all this. Your time and effort is really appreciated. 🌕
Thanks for the encouraging feedback.
Thank you for helping me remember to take a moment to appreciate the technological marvel of looking at a panoramic photo of a Martian sunset taken only a few days ago, from my living room. Music was a nice touch 🤩
And thanks for taking that moment and appreciating it. Glad you liked the music.
Thank you for the wonderful episodes this year. This one especially.
Absolutely amazing! Hoping you and your Earth Family have a wonderful time over the holidays!
Thanks, and to you.
Stunning. Simply stunning.
Thanks for that.
Perfect choice of music - thank you as always!
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Without a doubt, one of your best videos.
Wow, high praise! Thanks.
Wow, breathtaking, and food for thought
Love your narration love your short & Sweet very informative videos
Glad you do, thanks.
That's an excellent Christmas present. Thanks to Perseverance and the team.
Thanks Mars Guy , love your channel. I wish you , your family and every viewers a Merry Christmas. ❤ from 🇨🇦.
Thanks for that, and likewise to you.
Wow! What a beautiful sight, even from a cameras point of view. I was reminded of the vista I saw many times as a child when cresting the El Cajon pass at night and seeing an undeveloped Antelope Valley bathed in moonlight. The buttes were a beautiful thing to see in that light. That is a sight that no longer exists except in my memory. Thank you for taking me back there for a moment.
How fun that a Martian sunset conjures such memories!
Those look like clouds in the distance. Thank you MG. Have a merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thanks, and to you.
I mostly hate on gratuitous music instead of narration, but this is sublime.
So glad you appreciated it.
A nice holiday gift. Thanks. You're always my first internet stop on Sundays.
Thanks, nice to be first!
What an eerie scene. Made me think of how vast and empty of life (as we know it) our universe is. But when life get’s a foothold, it does so in great abundance. Sure would be amazing to discover it outside of earth.
Glad you felt the eeriness, as I had intended. And yes, still waiting to discover life beyond Earth.
One night in 1948 I sat atop Winding Stair Mountain near the border of Arkansas and Oklahoma and watched the sun set. At some point I took a photo with a Cannon 110 instamatic camera, a lovely camera in an awful format, but somehow that image lives on in my mind and in countless & insufficient digital replications. Sometimes you really have to be there.
I am no Musk-fan, no myth-writer, but sometimes just being present is greater than writing stories about it. I do hope that the man and his friends get to experience the sights and the flavor of space. Vacuum is more entertaining than they may anticipate.
Eerie, but wonderful ...
Merry Christmas Dr. Ruff and thank you for another great year of your weekly videos that are amongst the best regardless of genre available on YT! 😎
Thanks, and to you. Thanks for the encouraging feedback.
TH-cam's bitrate just can't handle the gradient near-grey shades in the panaorama :(
Yeah, this is disappointing and a lesson learned.
@@MarsGuy Maybe 4K might do the trick next time? TH-cam gives a higher bitrate to 4K, so even if you have a 1080p video, if you just render it to 4K, then on yt, it will look far better.
A trick from my wasted youth of computer gaming, for the best space channel.
Always interesting. Extra interesting this time. 🙂
Glad you liked it!
Appropriate sounds for such a haunting view of our near-yet-so-far neighbor -- thank you!
That was my intent, glad you liked it.
Rite Dr Mars Dude, Eerie indeed with great music to match, Stay safe n well n a Merry what ever you celebrate! TFS, GB :)
Glad you liked it. And thanks for the well wishes, and likewise to you.
Good morning MG the music is as great but we still need to hear you narrate what we patiently wait for every Sunday morning. The views just keep getting better. Thank you
Don't worry, I have no plans to stop narrating!
Beautiful. Thank you!
Thank you too!
Merry Christmas, @Mars Guy. We used to talk about living on the edge of night and day on the moon and alien planets. Now that I see this twilight region, that seems impossible for human beings. The gloomy dark shadow is too dark to work or to give us hope for the new day. Just watching these videos for years makes long for home.
Thanks. And yes, there's no place like home.
@MarsGuy -- Exactly. Dorothy learned that lesson the hard way. Mars is exciting -- but I wouldn't want to live there. Certainly not at one trillion dollars. @MarsGuy, thanks for telling this story, and Happy Holidays. 🇺🇸🧙🏽♂️💙
Happy Mars Guy and a Happy Mars Guy New Year!!
Ha, thanks!
These updates are great. Mars guy is the greatest scientific visual innovation in 50 years to understand the scale of these images. Maybe you could throw more Mars people in the distance or standing on top of distant rims and peaks?🤞
That's high praise! Thanks. I do occasionally use multiple Mars Guys.
@@MarsGuy I used to have your job like a billyun years ago but only had VICAR to play with. I think Mars still had water then....
Merry Christmas Mars Guy, and all who follow.....
Thanks, and to you and others.
For the next panorama, instead of music, I suggest Mars Guy humming the soothing melodies ;)
Um, definitely not!
I really like the music ! That's haunting.
Yeah, thanks, that was the intent.
I think I could of sat watching that sunset for quite a while.. thx MarsGuy!
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for this excellent content and it’s great to see your subs moving in the right direction. Huge compliments of the season to you and yours. How huge? Here’s Mars Guy for scale.
Ha ha! Thanks as always for watching and commenting.
excellent music choice
Thanks!
The eerie light 20 minutes after sunset on Mars is beautiful with the many mountains in various distances from this high location. I agree with others that the music is excellent.
Glad you agree! I definitely wanted to convey that eeriness.
Wow, MG. That was really cool. Music was a nice touch.
Thanks, glad you liked it.
I wanted to take a moment to say Thank You and Merry Christmas, I really look forwards to your videos every week, especially love this one with the music and the eerie twilight vista. ❤
Thanks for taking a moment. I appreciate the feedback.
Many thanks for your excellent channel and the brilliant twilight video. Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from England.
Thanks for the feedback and tuning in from England.
I find it interesting that here on Earth, the skies are blue during the day and red and orange at sunset while on Mars, it's the other way around.
I was about to say that, but you beat me to it. I absolutely agree with you.
A mars video from JPL showed up in my feed and I thought, "Oh, it's not from Mars Guy". And passed on it.
Ha, well, you can look at both. (But thanks!)
How I look forward to my weekly visit to Mars. Thanks again, Mars Guy, for making these videos so damn interesting!
Those blue remembered hills.
Nice touch with the music! I always look forward to your weekly video. Thank you so much! I hope you and yours have Happy Holidays and I wish you joy, health, and success in 2025.
The chirping of crickets would be missing here.
This has to be an TH-cam first ... an alien holiday light show and music from another planet.
Happy holidays Mars Guy and thanks for sharing many GIFs.
Ha, well, definitely a first for music from Mars Guy! And thanks, same to you.
Always informative. Always interesting. Thanks
Merry Christmas Mars Guy. Thank you for all your content this year as always.
Take care 🙂👍
So on Mars, it's a case of "Blue sky at night, shepherd's delight..."!
Thank You Mars Guy! Sadly, low illumination is not working good with video compression algorithm. Seeing this live would be.... ekhm.... EXTRATERRESTRIAL experience!
Yeah, this was disappointing and a lesson learned. It looks better on my screen.
Thanks for this latest post, it's a great Xmas present. Have a Merry Xmas Mars Guy! 🎄🎁👍👍
I was kind of hoping you'd pop in a Mars Guy next to the blue light. You know, for scale :D
Ha ha!
I liked what you did there at the end with the music. Please feel free to continue being experimental in the future! Take care
I didn't know about this pre and after glow phenomenon on Mars. Very interesting 👌
Glad you found it interesting.
I love your videos Mars Guy! It's been a blast following along with our progress on mars. Inspiring!
Thanks! Glad you're enjoying the ride.
Thank you for your updates. Merry Christmas.
Thanks, and thanks for watching.
Thank you, Mars Guy. What a beautiful video! Merry Christmas to you and Merry Christmas to Percy!
Thanks for that, and glad you enjoyed the video.
That was a special one, thanks Mars Guy. Happy week to you. 👍💪✌
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you.
*A First!!, the music, very nice. The sunset is awesome. Merry Xmas to Mars Guy and Thank You!!*
Thanks for that. And glad you enjoyed the first!
Thank you for the last shot and the music. More so that normal, it made me wonder what it would feel like to be sitting there watching this with my own eyes
Great, I was hoping to inspire that sense of wonder!
Nice work. Great choice of music. I hope we see more. 👍🙂
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Thanks Steve for another year of clear factual Mars science reporting. When the astronauts get to Mars, they'll discover they weren't the first, because "Here's Mars Guy for scale" :-)
Ha, well, I'd be happy with a small nod at my attempts to report from Mars. Thanks for watching.
Thanks!
Wow. Imagine the first human who will stand on Mars and be awestruck by that night time sky! Thanks for stepping away from the science for a few moments to just appreciate the strange beauty of another world!
So with that dust, when it gets dark, can you see stars?
Mostly yes, but there are dust storms that would obscure the stars.
It would be amazing if we caught a picture of a nocturnal creature skulking around XD
Thank you :)
Thanks for excellent vignette on mars light. It got me wondering just how bright (or gloomy) a sunny day on mars would seem to actual eyeballs (rather than in light-level-adjusted post-fixed camera images.)
Spooky & Spacy -- can Santa Claus locate Perseverance with his DroneDeer? ☆★☆★
Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. If you could answer one question what’s the visibility on Mars on average? From these pictures it looks to be maybe 5 to 10 miles at Best. Thanks again, Mike from Montreal.
Thanks for that. And, I haven't seen any numbers on visibility, but it's highly variable depending on how much dust there is in the atmosphere. Right now it's not especially clear, but the most distant features visible in this scene are about 60 km (~37 miles) away.
That was a nice moment in my busy day
Glad you enjoyed it.
There was a smell of Time in the air tonight
That was a real treat.
Glad you enjoyed it.
I was hoping for some relevant links to the mentioned references.
Mars is really a dusty place, ain't it?
Yep!
Have a Happy Holiday Season ❄☃🥂Mars Guy.
Thanks, same to you.
"Here's Mars Guy looking at the Martian sunset with his back to the camera in a movie-poster-esque pose for dramatic effect."
Now we need a time-laps video of a Martian sunset for content creators and independent film makers to use as a stock asset.
Ooh, missed out on that opportunity!
Nice!
Honestly? this looks like the modern cities skies that have a lots of white LED lights and gets cloudy... It really looks like this (the light pollution is a modern problem)
Reminds me of the music from the Cosmos series by Carl Sagan.
Yeah, maybe that's what drew me to it.
Merry Christmas MG. I sent you a Christmas card but don't know if you will get it, mail to Mars is slow this time of year. 😎
Ha, well, it's pretty far away!
Wait... So, in that final image, the sun is well BELOW the horizon? And what we are seeing is an "eerie twilight glow" due to light scattered by dust high in the atmosphere? Is that right?
Yep, that's exactly right.
👏👏🙂
So I wonder why the sky is in blue tints instead or red tints during the Eerie afterglow.
❤
Mars jams...
Thanks for throwing a pinch of magic into the science this week. Anyone get a little misty?
So glad you appreciated it.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2025🌠⛄
What kind of effect does the dust in the air have on radiation?
Minimal effect.
The first astronauts on Mars are going to have some great views ...
Nice. :)
Thanks
In all this time ⏲️ , has it not recorded or witnessed any other worldly activity? Like checking it out for what it is ? An unmanned remotely controlled vehicle from another planet ? Ours
And still no LGM, canals or underground cities.
I watched the 1951 movie "Flight To Mars" the other day.
Looks like a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Thank you Mars Guy……
Mars Guy for scale!
I will venture a guess and say that the Blue Pearl is Earth. Although the Martian sky is a hazy blue at sunset, looking at Earth from space, there is no better description of what it is in my mind. I wish more of us could have this perspective: Earth, as this precious oasis, in the cold naked dark of space. Looking at Martian landscapes accentuates what we have in Earth even more. Although water once flowed on Mars when it still had much of its atmosphere and was more temperate, it is now a dry cold desert, with a harsh climate, far more deadly than anything Earth can muster.
Truly, there's no place like home.