7 Months from Earth: Finally Witnessing the Blue Martian Sunset │Made by AI

[00:00:00]"Boarding for Mars in 10 minutes." Mom cried.

[00:00:03]I told her it's basically just a long [music] flight. 7 months, but still.

[00:00:10]There's Boston Harbor. There's the Charles River.

[00:00:13]>> [music] >> Now it's just a coastline.

[00:00:15]Now it's nothing.

[00:00:17]Let's go.

[00:00:20]Welcome to my home for the next 7 months.

[00:00:23]I have a bed, a wall screen, and 63 bags of ramen.

[00:00:28]>> [music] >> I'm fine.

[00:00:30]Month one.

[00:00:31]There is nothing out there.

[00:00:34]Just stars.

[00:00:36]The most peaceful [music] and terrifying thing I've ever seen.

[00:00:40]I can see Mars now. It's [music] just a dot. A tiny red dot. I cried for 20 minutes.

[00:00:50]We're in orbit. Mars is right there.

[00:00:52]It's enormous.

[00:00:54]It's red. It's real.

[00:00:57]>> [music] >> We landed.

[00:01:01]I'm on Mars. [music] 7 months. My luggage is already lost.

[00:01:10]We landed. I'm on Mars. [music] 7 months. My luggage is already lost.

[00:01:20]Tallest [music] volcano in the solar system.

[00:01:23]My legs hurt and I took a shuttle the whole way.

[00:01:29]>> [music] >> The caldera is 80 km wide. I could fit Boston in here about a hundred times.

[00:01:40]Somebody help!

[00:01:41]>> [screaming] >> Just kidding. This is literally the best thing I have ever done.

[00:01:50]The walls are 3 km [music] tall on both sides.

[00:01:54]I feel very small.

[00:02:01]I tried to walk normally and launched myself 2 m. Earth tourist energy is embarrassing.

[00:02:10]This is what Mars looked like before.

[00:02:12]>> [music] >> Just dust.

[00:02:14]People did that in 200 years.

[00:02:21]Pod the size of a school bus on Mars for 2 years.

[00:02:26]Insane respect.

[00:02:31]A billion years of Mars geology just sitting here looking like an art installation.

[00:02:41]Is that normal? It's Tuesday.

[00:02:51]Can I touch it?

[00:02:52]>> Absolutely not.

[00:02:54]>> [music] >> Understood. Worth asking.

[00:03:01]The ground is literally sublimating under my boots. This is wild.

[00:03:09]>> [music] >> Korean braised ribs on Mars.

[00:03:16]I didn't expect to cry.

[00:03:17]>> [music] >> Also, the broth keeps floating. Why?

[00:03:22]I sent a boba pearl into space today.

[00:03:24]>> [music] >> I don't know if that counts as littering.

[00:03:34]>> Good, right?

[00:03:36]>> It smells like Olympus Mons, but I can't stop eating it.

[00:03:42]It drifts away after 6 [music] minutes.

[00:03:46]I spent 40 minutes watching it.

[00:03:51]>> 45 days to grow one.

[00:03:56]>> It tastes like steak. I am confused but happy.

[00:04:01]They tried. They really tried. I respect the [music] effort enormously.

[00:04:05]Mars kids love it.

[00:04:07]It's not bad, just different. [music] But hey, Mars ramen at midnight.

[00:04:12]>> Water trapped underground for 11,000 years.

[00:04:16]>> [music] >> I did cry.

[00:04:22]First time Earth visitors, [music] please stay below the 2-m line. This would have been useful 5 seconds ago.

[00:04:31]$10,000?

[00:04:33]>> Certified authentic surface soil collected 2387.

[00:04:36]>> That's insane.

[00:04:38]I'll just take what's stuck to my shoes.

[00:04:42]Water just falls from the sky [music] and instead of moving you hold a fabric stick over your head? Yes, that's what we do.

[00:04:48]>> [laughter] >> You have arrived. Rated 4.8 stars.

[00:04:55]This is a parking lot.

[00:04:57]>> [music] >> Great.

[00:05:02]The rate adjusts every 4 minutes based on orbital distance. I'm just accepting whatever happens.

[00:05:12]>> You've grown 1.2 cm due to spinal decompression.

[00:05:16]>> Sorry, what?

[00:05:23]>> That's 200 kilos. It means nothing here.

[00:05:26]>> I know. [music] I'm still counting it.

[00:05:33]Best Earth documentary this year.

[00:05:35]>> [music] >> I have notes.

[00:05:42]>> Why do you walk so flat? Earth people are so heavy.

[00:05:46]>> I got roasted by an 8-year-old.

[00:05:54]Mom asked how I was.

[00:05:56]16 minutes later she said good. This is our relationship now.

[00:06:00]Good.

[00:06:02]>> Reminder, rovers bounce more than expected.

[00:06:05]>> I HAVE BECOME A PINBALL.

[00:06:12]>> Please relax your shoulders.

[00:06:14]>> [music] >> They are relaxed.

[00:06:16]>> They are not.

[00:06:21]>> [music] >> I came to show you something.

[00:06:27]That tiny dot is Earth.

[00:06:28]>> [music] >> 7 months to get here. I don't know why I'm crying. I just am.

[00:06:32]Everyone knows Mars sunsets are blue, but seeing it in person, actual chills. [music] >> You're going to float into the ceiling.

[00:06:47]>> This is the greatest party in any gravity.

[00:06:53]The blanket keeps floating off me. I haven't slept. The view through the floor is genuinely insane.

[00:06:59]>> [music] >> Most guests find it disorienting at first.

[00:07:06]>> It's the most alien thing I've experienced on Mars.

[00:07:12]>> [music] >> There's a stalactite in my shower.

[00:07:16]>> Yes, that's the deluxe cave feature.

[00:07:18]>> A feature? It's hanging right over the shower.

[00:07:21]>> It's quite popular. Enjoy your stay.

[00:07:22][music] >> Mars sunrise starts blue and ends golden.

[00:07:26]I woke up at 4:00 a.m. for this and I would do it again.

[00:07:33]>> We forget how it looks from outside.

[00:07:36]>> A snow globe with the universe as its background. [music] Last morning on Mars.

[00:07:45]>> [music] >> 3 weeks. I don't want to leave.

[00:07:48]I didn't expect to feel that.

[00:07:54]Send me a photo of rain, [music] an actual photo. I will. I promise.

[00:08:03]Lost one boba to space.

[00:08:06]Grew 1.2 cm, [music] cried four times, made two friends, started missing Earth for the first time.

[00:08:15]There goes [music] Ares 7, it's a dot now.

[00:08:17]Bye, Mars.

[00:08:21]>> [music] >> Mars is a dot now.

[00:08:26]Same as Earth was on the way here.

[00:08:29]I think about that a lot.

[00:08:33]Jupiter next.

[00:08:35]2 years.

[00:08:36]I'll think about it when I'm back in Boston [music] with rain and clam chowder and a blanket that doesn't float.