If NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used Google Photos, it would look like this

Maybe one day, when we humans finally get to Mars, we’ll take our Android phones and the Google Photos albums and montages we’ve created. Until then, we can live vicariously through a video from Google that imagines what it would be like if NASA’s Perseverance rover used the photo-wrangling system.

Google released the video Wednesday in honor of the rover’s six months land on the red planet February 18. It’s a sweet adventure through images of rocks, landscapes, selfies and the Ingenuity helicopter.

Google had plenty of photos to work with to create the video, which takes us through the rover’s imagined albums, including the collections titled “Shadow Selfies”, “Rocks” and “Additional Rocks”.

Perseverance has taken more than 125,000 photos since his arrival. If the rover was really using Google Photos to archive its images, it will likely need to spring out for additional storage.

There are some good science jokes in the video, including a part where the rover searches for “water” and “martians” and receives a message with no result. The dunes, however, is another story.

While the video is smart marketing for Google Photos, it’s also an entertaining way for space fans to revisit and relive the rover’s adventures so far. The only thing missing is the funny photo of Perseverance of “ass crack rock. “File this under” Additional Rocks. “

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