Mars

Preparing for First Flight on Mars on This Week @NASA – March 26, 2021

Preparing for first flight on Mars, making a splash with Orion, and the space station’s next crew prepares for launch … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

How Solar Storms This Year Will Help Mars Astronauts in the Future (Mars Report - April 2024)

Mars 2020 Heat Shield and Backshell Unboxing

Mars 2020 Heat Shield and Backshell unboxing

Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Turnover

Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Turnover inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF).

Mars 2020 Social Media Q&A: En Español

Mars 2020 Social Media Q&A: En Español with representatives from NASA’s Launch Services Program and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Participants: -Kristi Irastorza, Public Affairs Specialis...

Crazy Engineering: Making Oxygen on Mars with MOXIE

Crazy Engineering explores a technology demonstration riding aboard NASA’s Mars 2020 rover that's straight out of science fiction novels like "The Martian." It's an oxygen generator called MOXIE...

NASA Looking at Next Steps for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

NASA is targeting early April for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. After Ingenuity is deployed from the rover,...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Hears Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in Fligh

On April 30, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover made history as the first spacecraft to record sounds from another spacecraft on another planet. During Ingenuity’s fourth flight, a microphone incl...

Landing NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover with Terrain Relative Navigation

The Mars 2020 mission is facing the most challenging landing yet on the Red Planet. It will touch down on Feb. 18, 2021, in Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer-wide) expanse full of steep c...

Mars 2020 Facebook Live with Administrator / NASA Social

Mars 2020 NASA Administrator, Deputy Administrator, Deputy Director, and Astronaut Zena Cardman for the NASA Social. Participants: Joshua Santora, NASA Communications; Jim Bridenstine, NASA Adminis...

Mars 2020 Adaptive Caching Assembly Arrival at LLF

Mars 2020 Adaptive Caching Assembly Arrival at the Launch and Landing Facility.

Mars 2020 Launch Vehicle on Stand

Mars 2020 Launch Vehicle on Stand

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing Animations

Animations for media and public use. This reel depicts key events during entry, descent, and landing that will occur when NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars February 18, 2021. In the span of...

Mission Overview: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is heading to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life, collect samples for future return to Earth and help pave the way for human exploration. The rov...

Using Earth to Understand How Water May Have Affected Volcanoes on Mars

This scientific data visualization shows the evolution of the newly-erupted island in the Kingdom of Tonga. Results of this study can enhance our understanding of numerous small volcanic landforms ...

NASA Science Live: We Landed on Mars [Episode 29]

A new chapter of Mars exploration has officially begun! Yesterday, NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars. What’s next? The rover will prepare to explore its new Martian home, se...

NASA in Silicon Valley Live – Is There Life on Mars?

NASA in Silicon Valley Live is a talk show that features conversations with scientists, researchers, engineers and all-around cool people who work at NASA to push the boundaries of innovation. In t...

Mars 2020 Launch Flashback Facebook Live Q&A

Mars 2020 Launch Flashback Facebook Live Q&A

Mars 2020 ULA Booster Arrival & Offload

Mars 2020 ULA Booster Arrival & Offload

NASA’s Ames Research Center Contributes to Mars 2020 Mission (B-roll Resource Reel)

NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley made key contributions both to the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission.

International Partnership for the Moon and Mars on This Week @NASA – October 25, 2019

International partnerships for the Moon and Mars, an update on that historic all-woman spacewalk, and a milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope … a few of the stories to tell you about –-...

Mars 2020 Spacecraft Lift and Mate

Mars 2020 spacecraft is lifted and mated to the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF).

NASA's Perseverance Rover Launches to Mars

NASA’s Perseverance Rover began its long journey to Mars today by successfully launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a ULA Atlas V rocket. It now begins its seven-month journey to th...

NASA Engineering Design Challenge: Parachuting Onto Mars-Grades 3-5

U.S. Department of Education and NASA’s video entitled, NASA Engineering Design Challenge: Parachuting Onto Mars, Grades 3-5.

NASA Engineering Design Challenge: Parachuting Onto Mars-Grades 6-8

U.S. Department of Education and NASA’s video entitled, NASA Engineering Design Challenge: Parachuting Onto Mars, Grades 6-8.

Third Flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is a Success

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. Perseverance touched down at Octavia E. Butler L...

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...

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A unique drill is being tested by NASA. The futuristic drill is in development at Johnson Space Center and is designed to be used on the Moon or Mars. For now, testing is taking place at JSC's 'Mar...

How Long Does it Take to Get to the Moon, Mars, Jupiter?

Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Lift Operations

Mars 2020 Perseverance rover lift operations inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF).