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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Finds A Changing Landscape

NASA’s Curiosity rover explores Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall (8-kilometer-tall) mountain within the basin of Gale Crater on Mars. Curiosity’s Deputy Project Scientist, Abigail Fraeman of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, gives viewers a…

MAVEN Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph

MAVEN will use its Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) to study the upper atmosphere of Mars in unprecedented detail, helping scientists to determine what happened to the planet's ancient atmosphere - and its liquid water.

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Pawan also has another question. Could you explain more about the experimental navigation camera and how it is different from the other cameras that the MRO is carrying? Sure. Well, the optical navigation camera, its goal is to be able to send future spacecr…

Voices of MAVEN

Members of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission (MAVEN) share their experiences of working on the project.

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Justin from Falmouth. He asked, what will be the MRO's first science mission after achieving orbit around the planet? Also, he asked, how long will it be before you receive any observations from the MRO when it arrives at Mars? Okay, well, as we spoke about, …

NASA Science Live: Perseverance Mars Rover & the Search for Ancient Life [Episode 20]

NASA Science Live: Perseverance Mars Rover & the Search for Ancient Life [Episode 20]

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This July will mark the two-year anniversary of the launch of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Since Mars passes close to Earth every 26 months, that means it's almost time for NASA to launch a new mission to the Red Planet -- the Mar…

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With so much interest in the exploration of Mars, our NASA Direct question board has had quite a response. Are you ready to answer a few of our viewers' questions now? Sure. Let's go. Let's get started. Our first question comes from Patrick, and he's eight y…

MAVEN National Air and Space Museum Presentation

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is NASA's next mission to Mars, designed to figure out how the Red Planet lost its early atmosphere to space. Principal Investigator Bruce Jakosky discusses Mars's missing atmosphere and the challenges of buildin…

Testing Mars Sample Return

Happy Birthday, Curiosity!

NASA's Curiosity rover celebrates its Martian birthday on August 5 (PDT), the day that it landed on Mars. In honor of this special ocassion, engineers at Goddard Space Flight Center are using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument to "sing" Happy Birthd…

ECAM Video on KSC

ECAM in using during NASA's Mars 2020 launch.

MAVEN Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer

MAVEN will use its Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer to study the interaction of neutral gases and ions in the Martian atmosphere with the solar wind, helping scientists to understand how Mars has lost its atmosphere over time.

NASA Science Live: Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies its Final Flight [Episode 52]

NASA Science Live: Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies its Final Flight [Episode 52]

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Pawan from Sharjah asked us, what type of orbit will MRO be sent into once it reaches the Red Planet? Also, will it be used as a link by the MER-A and MER-B for sending data? Most spacecraft that have been in orbit around Mars to date, they have moved abov…