Currently spinning around the red planet is the Mars Research Orbiter, a satellite that’s been imaging and studying the planet since 2006. One of the tools at its disposal is the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, run by the University of Arizona, Tucson. The amazing HiRISE has spectacular abilities, the largest ever sent to Mars, has produced some phenomenal images, including some I rounded up this week.What I didn’t know at the time was that the HiRISE team at UA is also putting out videos of their work. The videos are wonderful for their educational value, but what’s really totally amazing insane and kickass is the fact that the HiRISE team is scoring the music for their own flicks. And by “scoring,” I mean putting together stuff ranging from psychedelic spacedoom to sparkling moonbeam downtempo.This is completely unprecedented. NASA videos tend to have boring music accompaniments (Elton John notwithstanding), when they’re even scored at all, but these HiRISE videos… They’re straight blowing my mind. If this is the future of NASA videos, color me excited. I’m just waiting for the first HiRISE party.
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