Mars
The red planet awaits.
Mapping Mars' Upper Atmosphere
High above the thin Martian skies, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft is carrying out a mission: determine how Mars lost its early atmosphere, and with it, its water. While previous Mars orbiters have peere...
Mars Report: Update on NASA’s Perseverance Rover & Ingenuity Helicopter (April 16, 2021)
As NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter makes progress towards its first test flight, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has begun preparing to test the MOXIE technology demonstration that converts Marti...
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Overview
Tucked inside the Curiosity rover is a miniature chemistry lab designed to unlock the secrets of Mars. Principal Investigator Paul Mahaffy, Deputy Principal Investigator Pamela Conrad, and MSL Part...
Mars Report: Update on NASA’s Perseverance Rover & Ingenuity Helicopter
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars helicopter is preparing to deploy the helicopter to the surface of the Red Planet. This video provides a mission update from Farah Alibay, Per...
Perseverance Arrives at Mars: Feb. 18, 2021
After nearly 300 million miles (470 million km), NASA’s Perseverance rover completes its journey to Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. But, to reach the surface of the Red Planet, it has to survive the harro...
How it Looks to Land on Mars on This Week at NASA February 27, 2021
How it looks to land on Mars, previewing space station spacewalks, and supplies and cargo delivered for the station crew … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
Testing the Mars Helicopter Delivery System on NASA's Perseverance Rover
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is traveling to Mars attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover and must safely detach to begin the first attempt at powered flight on another planet. Tests done at...
Goddard Goes to Mars
The Martian climate remains one of the solar system's biggest mysteries: although cold and dry today, myriad surface features on Mars carved by flowing water attest to a much warmer, wetter past. W...
Perseverance Rover Zooms in on Ancient Mars River
After 1,000 Martian days of exploration, NASA’s Perseverance rover is studying rocks that show several eras in the history of a river delta billions of years old. Scientists are investigating thi...
InSight: Journey to the Center of Mars
Moderated by Raquel Villanueva. Panelists include Sabine Stanley, InSight Science Team, Johns Hopkins University; Mark Panning, InSight Science Team, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Amir Khan, In...
Mars 2020 Mars Sample Return Briefing
Mars 2020 Mars Sample Return Briefing with representatives from NASA, the European Space Agency, and the University of Alberta. Participants: Dr. Zurbuchen, NASA Associate Administrator Science Mis...
NASA 2025: To the Moon, Mars, and Beyond
Preparing to orbit and do science on the Moon, investigating how solar wind interacts with Mars, and demonstrating quiet supersonic flight are just a FEW of the milestones we have planned for 2025....
Shake, Rattle and Roll: Testing NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover lives up to its name by enduring a series of tests to prepare for its journey to the Red Planet. Tests for the mission were performed between September and Decem...
NASA Provides First Front-Row Seat to Perseverance Rover’s Landing on Mars
NASA today released first-of-its-kind imagery collected from the Perseverance rover’s descent stage as it landed on the surface of Mars, Thursday, Feb. 18. From the moment of parachute inflation,...
Need To Know: Sample Analysis at Mars Findings
There’s big news coming out of the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite (SAM) on NASA’s Curiosity rover. For the first time, organic matter has definitively been detected on Mars. In additi...
Open Mic on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover carries two microphones which are directly recording sounds on the Red Planet, including the Ingenuity helicopter and the rover itself at work. For the very first t...
Mars 2020 Helicopter Wiggle Test
Mars 2020 Helicopter Wiggle Test
Mars 2020 Helicopter 50RPM Test
Mars 2020 Helicopter 50RPM Test
Things are Really Looking Up (on Mars)
Did you know that NASA’s aeronautical innovators had a hand in the creation of the first flying vehicle on Mars? Since the late 1970s, NASA has been studying how to enable planetary flight with a...
Curiosity Rover’s Most Challenging Climb Yet (Mars Report - August 2023)
NASA’s Curiosity rover recently made its most challenging climb on Mars. Curiosity faced a steep, slippery slope on its journey up Mount Sharp, so rover drivers had to come up with a creative det...
How Perseverance Drives on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is using its self-driving capabilities as it treks across Jezero Crater seeking signs of ancient life and gathering rock and soil samples for planned return to Eart...
Mars 2020 Rollout
Mars 2020 Rollout at Space Launch Complex 41.
Mars Sample Return: Bringing Mars Rock Samples Back to Earth
NASA and the European Space Agency are developing plans for one of the most ambitious campaigns ever attempted in space: bringing the first samples of Mars material safely back to Earth for detaile...
Mars 2020 Live Launch Coverage
Live coverage of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. JPL, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, is buildin...
Mars 2020 Lift Activities in PHSF
Mars 2020 Lift Activities in PHSF
Mars Rover 2020's Name Reveal
Drum roll, please: You voted on names for our #Mars2020 rover. Find out which was selected! Our newest Mars rover's name – and the student behind it – was announced LIVE March 5, 2020.
The Cause of a Christmas Eve Quake on Mars on This Week @NASA – October 28, 2022
The cause of a Christmas Eve quake on Mars, super sources of a climate-warming greenhouse gas, and images of Earth from a passing spacecraft … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week...
Mars Report: Update on NASA’s Perseverance Rover & Curiosity Rover (May 20, 2021)
NASA's Perseverance rover has been on the surface of Mars since February of 2021, joining NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been studying the Red Planet since 2012. Perseverance is now beginning ...
Supercomputer Simulation of Seasonal Changes in Martian Clouds, Dust and Ice
This video is a simulation of the climate on Mars spanning one year, from spring through winter in the northern hemisphere. The simulation was run on the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility's Pl...
How Long Does it Take to Get to the Moon, Mars, Jupiter?
How long does it take to get to the Moon? Mars? Jupiter? The answer is: it depends — and speed is only one factor. Travel times also depend on distance, fuel, physics and clever trajectory planni...