Mars Blender Simulation In 4K

Mars - The Planet. Another Blender project in my series of planets that I have created using Blender version 3.4.1. For this video, I arranged the two moons Phobos and Deimos to orbit Mars, the moon Phobos being closest to Mars at 3,700 miles from its surface, and it orbits Mars every 7 hours and 39 minutes. The moon Deimos, which is one-seventh the mass of Phobos, orbits at a distance of 14,577 miles for Mars surface, and it takes Deimos about 30 hours and 20 minutes for one rotation around Mars. Both moons Phobos and Deimos are not shaped like conventional moons usually are. Both are oblong, and Phobos is shaped like a potato. Unfortunately for this project, I was not able to give axis rotations to either of the the two moons. Hopefully I'll be able to figure that feature out in future Blender projects.

Phobos: 0:07
Deimos: 0:20
MarCO: 0:44
Maven: 0:58
Odysse: 1:14
Curiosity: 1:28
Spirit Explorer: 1:54
Bonus Footage: 6:53

From solarsystem.NASA.gov:
Size & Distance: With a radius of 2,106 miles (3,390 kilometers), Mars is about half the size of Earth. If Earth were the size of a nickel, Mars would be about as big as a raspberry.
From an average distance of 142 million miles (228 million kilometers), Mars is 1.5 astronomical units away from the Sun. One astronomical unit (abbreviated as AU), is the distance from the Sun to Earth. From this distance, it takes sunlight 13 minutes to travel from the Sun to Mars.

Orbit & Rotation: As Mars orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 24.6 hours, which is very similar to one day on Earth (23.9 hours). Martian days are called sols – short for "solar day." A year on Mars lasts 669.6 sols, which is the same as 687 Earth days.

Moons: Phobos and Deimos, that may be captured asteroids. They're potato-shaped because they have too little mass for gravity to make them spherical. The moons get their names from the horses that pulled the chariot of the Greek god of war, Ares. Phobos, the innermost and larger moon, is heavily cratered, with deep grooves on its surface. It is slowly moving towards Mars and will crash into the planet or break apart in about 50 million years.
Deimos is about half as big as Phobos and orbits two and a half times farther away from Mars. Oddly-shaped Deimos is covered in loose dirt that often fills the craters on its surface, making it appear smoother than pockmarked Phobos.

MarCO Spacecraft(Mars Cube One): On May 5, 2018, NASA launched a spacecraft called InSight that landed on Mars on Nov. 26, 2018. Riding along with InSight were two CubeSats—the first of this kind of spacecraft to fly to deep space. The CubeSats were part of a technology demonstration mission called Mars Cube One (MarCO). The MarCO twins were nicknamed EVE and WALL-E after characters from Pixar's "WALL-E" movie. The spacecraft provided an experimental communications relay to let scientists on Earth know quickly about InSight's landing.
MarCO A and B successfully completed their missions on Nov. 26, 2018. WALL-E was last heard from on Dec. 29, 2018; EVE on Jan. 4, 2019.

MAVEN Mars Orbiter: NASA's MAVEN is currently orbiting Mars studying the structure and composition of the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet. In early 2019, MAVEN was shifted to a lower orbit to prepare it to take on additional responsibility as a data-relay satellite for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. MAVEN's mission was designed for two years, but the spacecraft has enough fuel to operate through 2030.

Mars Odyssey Probe: NASA's Mars Odyssey holds the record for the longest continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth. It's been in orbit since Oct. 24, 2001. The spacecraft's main mission is to investigate the Martian environment and to provide key information on hazards future explorers might face.

Mars Curiosity Rover(MSL): NASA's Curiosity is the largest and most advanced rover ever sent to Mars. The car-sized rover is part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). Curiosity's ongoing mission is to study the ancient habitability and the potential for life on Mars. The rover began its first drive on Mars Aug. 29, 2012. The rover is about as tall as a basketball player and uses a 7-foot (2-meter) arm to place tools close to rocks for study.

Mars Spirit Explorer Rover: NASA's Spirit rover—and its twin Opportunity—studied the history of climate and water at sites on Mars where conditions may once have been favorable to life. Spirit uncovered strong evidence that Mars was once much wetter than it is now. Described as a "wonderful workhorse"—Spirit operated for 6 years, 2 months, and 19 days, more than 25 times its original intended lifetime. The rover traveled 4.8 miles (7.73 kilometers) across the Martian plains.

Music: "Stems Bass Bus" - by Doctor Dreamchip.

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