Mars
The red planet awaits.
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...
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...
Mars 2020 Rover Arrival
Mars 2020 rover arrives at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for processing.
Perseverance Sends More Sounds From Mars on This Week @NASA – March 12, 2021
Perseverance sends more sounds from Mars, the rocket boosters for Artemis I are all stacked up, and preview of a weekend spacewalk … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Puff, Whir, Zap Sounds from Mars
Listen closely to new sounds from Mars recorded by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, including puffs and pings from a rover tool, light Martian wind, the whirring of the agency's Ingenuity Mars Hel...
NASA TV Video File Package-NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Name & Naming Contest Winner
NASA's next Mars rover has a new name: Perseverance. The name was announced on March 5 by Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate during a celebration at Lak...
Mars Report: Update on NASA’s Perseverance Rover SuperCam Instrument
Since landing on the Red Planet, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has been hard at work analyzing rocks and soil on the floor of Jezero Crater with the SuperCam instrument. SuperCam features a r...
Mars 2020 Trailblazer
A crane is used to hoist a test version of the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission at the United Launch Alliance Vertical Integration Facility...
Mars 2020 Encapsulation in PHSF
Mars 2020 Encapsulation in PHSF.
Mars 2020 Spin Table Activities in PHSF
Mars 2020 Spin Table Activities in PHSF
Testing Mars Sample Return
Teams across multiple NASA centers and the European Space Agency are working together to prepare a set of missions that would return the samples being collected by the Mars Perseverance rover safel...
Our next Mars Rover gets closer to launch on This Week @NASA – July 10, 2020
Our next Mars Rover gets closer to launch, a comet spotted from the space station and we’re ready to build a spacecraft to explore a metal-rich asteroid … a few of the stories to tell you about...
Twin of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Moves Into New Home
A full-scale engineering model of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover now resides in a garage facing the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. This vehicle system test b...
First Video of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Flight, Including Takeoff and Landing (High-Res)
In this video captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover, the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. The rover was parked a...
How Ingenuity Talks to Us From Mars
The Ingenuity helicopter made history on April 19, 2021, with the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. How do engineers talk to a helicopter all the way out on Mars? W...
How Scientists Study Wind on Mars (NASA Mars News Report June 22, 2022)
NASA's spacecraft on Mars are all affected by the winds of the Red Planet, which can produce a tiny dust devil or a global dust storm. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Deputy Project Scientist ...
Fourth Flight a Success for NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed a fourth, more challenging flight on the Red Planet on April 30, 2021. Flight Test No. 4 aimed for a longer flight time, longer distance, ...
Twin of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Now on the Move
While NASA's Mars rover Perseverance travels through space toward the Red Planet, its nearly identical rover twin is hard at work on Earth. The vehicle system test bed (VSTB) rover named OPTIMISM i...
Mars Report: Update on NASA's Perseverance Rover SHERLOC Instrument
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has been hard at work using the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) instrument to help determine the ...
Mars 2020 NASA Administrator Briefing
Mars 2020 NASA Administrator Briefing with NASA Administrator, NASA Deputy Administrator, Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director and Astronaut Zena Cardman. Participants: Jim Bridenstine, NASA Admini...
Tom Joyner Explores Moon to Mars
Tom Joyner Explores Moon to Mars
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover: MOXIE Instrument Media Reel
B-roll for media. The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, also known as MOXIE, aims to produce oxygen from the carbon dioxide atmosphere on Mars. MOXIE is a payload instrument insi...
Observing Comet Siding Spring at Mars
On October 19, Comet Siding Spring will pass within 88,000 miles of Mars – just one third of the distance from the Earth to the Moon! Traveling at 33 miles per second and weighing as much as a sm...
Our Next Mars Rover is Headed to The Red Planet on This Week @NASA – July 31, 2020
Our next Mars rover is on its way, preparing for the historic return of a Commercial Crew mission, and naming the crew for a future mission … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week ...
Our Perseverance Rover Takes up Residence on Mars on This Week @NASA – February 20, 2021
Our Perseverance rover takes up residence on Mars, the space station’s next commercial resupply mission, and a new date for a commercial crew test flight … a few of the stories to tell you abou...
Searching for Signs of Life on Mars
One of the biggest questions in planetary science is whether life ever arose on Mars, and NASA is sending a cutting-edge instrument to the Red Planet to find out. The Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer...
Mars 2020 Live Launch Coverage - ISO B-roll String
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...
Second Flight a Success for NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed a second, more challenging flight on the Red Planet on April 22, 2021. Flight Test No. 2aimed for a higher maximum altitude, longer flight...
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NASA Science Live: Mars Helicopter and the Future of Extraterrestrial Flight [Episode 32]
On April 19, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter became the first spacecraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another world. This historic flight on Mars has implications for how we will explore ...
Some News About Our Moon to Mars Architecture on This Week @NASA – April 21, 2023
Some news about our Moon to Mars Architecture, chalk up another one for our frequent flyer on Mars, and yes, this spacecraft “scan” find things in the sky … a few of the stories to tell you a...