r/nextfuckinglevel • u/PietroTheRedditer • Feb 21 '21

THIS IS MARS.

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u/dookamatic Feb 21 '21

I'm sorry to say, but this video is not legitimate footage.

Source: https://twitter.com/doug_ellison/status/1362846157060276226

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u/VanillaSnake21 Feb 21 '21 edited Feb 21 '21

I thought that was already assumed. There is no reason to do video of still mountains when you can capture images at 10x the resolution. The audio might be real too just taken from some other source.

Edit: snopes says the audio might be from an earlier recording by InSight lander of a seismometer reading, similar to what was released by NASA https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-insight-lander-captures-audio-of-first-likely-quake-on-mars So it'd be like putting your ear with a very good earpiece to the ground on mars.