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Failure isn’t the end of the story. After the loss of Mars Observer, the team who sent the first laser to map height on Mars built their second lidar instrument to see Mars in a whole new light. Along the way, they took a look back at our home planet. Follow the full story at the link in our bio! Video Description: 0:00 Rocket launching. 0:05 Bryan Blair talking. Yellow text reads “Bryan Blair, MOLA Flight Software Analyst.” 0:08 Two stacked animations of spacecraft, each with two solar panels, against a reddish backdrop. 0:14 Clips of archival footage of a room full of people watching computer screens and chatting nervously. 0:23 Yellow font reads “Can you tell if MOLA is turned on?” over the footage. 0:51 Everyone in the room bursts into cheers and clapping with big smiles. 1:00 A computer screen shows a curvy blue line against a white grid. Someone points to the line. A laser pointer circles around a small break in the blue line. 1:03 Archival footage of Jim Garvin smiling and talking. 1:07 More archival footage of people celebrating. 1:11 Montage of people cut out against a blueprint background. Bright beams of light bounce from the center over a stylized globe. In boxy yellow font: “Leaders in Lidar.” #NASA #Space #Laser #Science #Mars #Tech

February 03, 2023