Watch Nasa’s ingenuity helicopter flying on Mars with 3D glasses of the old school

If you have a pair of Red-cyan glasses, you now look at the NASA’s ingenuity helicopter performing one of its 3D flights. NASA has published the video edited in an anaglyph, which means that it is a stereoscopic video where the same series of frames was reprojecting and superimposed in two layers, one in red and a cyan color, intended to be Used with color filtered glasses.

NASA published Wednesday the new 3D version of the video, explaining that the video shows the third theft of ingenuity on Mars – that caught by Perseverance Rover, giving the public the opportunity to look at this historical realization. The content was captured using MASTCAM-Z Rover, which has two zoomable cameras.

The capture involved a group of images from the flight sequence, which were then assembled together as frames in a video. NASA explains that JPL Imaging scientist Justin Maki worked with a team that sewed images and repristed to look like anaglyph. The red-cyan glasses needed to display 3D video can be purchased online or easily made if you have the right supplies.

For those who want to go to the DIY road, assuming you have Red and Cyan Cellophane, NASA has a 3D glasses model available to download for free on its website. It takes only about 10 minutes to cut the glasses on cardboard paper and tape or glue on cellophane filters.

Talking about the effort, said Maki:

The MASTCAM-Z video capacity was inherited from the Mars Science Laboratory Tuesday (March of Descent Imager). To reuse this ability on a new mission by acquiring a 3D video of a flying helicopter above the surface of March, it’s just spectacular … a helicopter flying on Mars opens a new era for the exploration of March . This is an excellent demonstration of a new technology for exploration. With each flight, we open more possibilities.