Our 10 Most Popular Videos of 2012
Giant snakes, lost footage, secret histories and more in this wrapup of our most watched videos of the year
- By Caroline Lacey
- Smithsonian.com, December 18, 2012
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Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror
Before Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars in August, NASA released this video about the so-called “Seven Minutes of Terror,” the amount of time it would take for the rover to fall through Mars’ atmosphere and land on its surface. Using rockets and a supersonic parachute Curiosity would begin its descent at over 1300 mph and slow to a gentle landing. Even the engineers thought the plan was crazy. See how they did it.
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Comments (9)
nice and simple video presentation about ancient. fantastic
Posted by srinivasan on January 4,2013 | 07:06 AM
2500 lbs? I think the Eiffel Tower weighs in at a little more than 2500 lbs?
Posted by Monte on December 20,2012 | 07:08 PM
The eiffel tower weighs 10,000+ TONS. How are you translating 2,500 pounds to be anywhere near that?
Posted by Ryan on December 20,2012 | 05:16 PM
Am I the only person who hates all the commercials ran before each article ?
Posted by Marvin E Smith on December 20,2012 | 12:17 PM
What a cruel way to kill a beautiful animal, I find it very disturbing
Posted by Claudia on December 20,2012 | 08:28 AM
It's 2012, and you are promoting a video from 1934? Your video is subtitled 'Daring Anglers'?! Looks like a bunch of Goodyear accountants to me. Are you that lacking in creativity that you had to dig up anything with sharks in it to promote on your website? Why promote the torture of an animal from 78 years ago? Someone at Smithsonian.com seems a bit out of touch to me. This is a pathetic video and should be removed.
Posted by Kevin Connor on December 20,2012 | 06:27 AM
These might be your top vids for 2012, but THE top vid is the soldier who returned to find his son (who I believe has cerebral palsy) had learned to walk and walks toward him.
Posted by Ddrhl on December 20,2012 | 05:03 AM
This video might be popular but, even though I have a shark phobia, is one of the most disgustingly cruel films of cruelty to animals I have ever seen and i feel sad that those people could "glory" in it
Posted by jaques on December 20,2012 | 03:08 AM
Drop a penicillian bomb there and no more crabs...
Posted by Brian G. on December 19,2012 | 02:49 AM