NASA’s Curiosity Rover has been poodling around on the surface of Mars for over nine months now, poking in the dirt and sending back pictures of its shadow and/or penises that it drew in the sand.

You can thank a humanoid, then, for recovering some of Curiosity’s dignity with this excellent time lapse of the one ton mobile lab’s last nine month’s on the Red Planet.

Mashable explains how YouTuber, Karl Sanford pieced it together.

To assemble the time lapse, Sanford used images taken by Curiosity’s Front Hazard Avoidance Cameras, or Front Hazcams, which were snapped from Sol 0 to Sol 281. (Sol is the term used to refer to a Martian day.) The resulting video covers some nine Earth-months of the rover’s data-gathering mission on Mars.

The video broke when Curiosity tweeted the video to it’s 1,3 million followers.

Just a minute! That’s all it takes to see 9 months of my mission thanks to fan @krsanford‘s time lapse youtu.be/3FH6QPAD-BU

— Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) May 24, 2013

That’ll be great for Karl’s Klout score.

[Source : Mashable]