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I've been just happened to have been listening Britney Spears's Oops! I did it again, and what does the mars lander says "Oh there horse" at 0:20?
From the start
The navigator : First, the Mars lander, report the status, please.
Mars lander : Mars lander here. Gravity device status is effective. Watch the status 90%.
The navigator : Any sign of habitation?
Mars lander : Not so much is there. Oh, there horse.
What does he mean by that expression?
Thank you.
"Woah, there, horsey!"
It's an idiom that means "hold on a second" or "something is happening" or "let's stop what we are doing and pay attention to this!"
There is also:
"Hold your horses!"
which means "slow down!"
And
"Horse of a different color"
which means "a thing to which what we were just speaking of does not apply".
This is American English slang. It comes from films known as"westerns" - films set in early America when there was a "frontier" - national Western border. There are lots of actual horses in them. :)
