Mars

Mars 2020 Post-Launch News Conference

Mars 2020 Post-launch News Conference with representatives from NASA and United Launch Alliance. Participants: Derrol Nail, NASA Communications; Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator; Thomas Zurbuche...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Mars Terrain Video File

NASA’s Perseverance rover is well into its second science campaign, analyzing the composition of rocks and collecting rock samples in an area long considered by scientists to be a top prospect fo...

How NASA’s Perseverance Rover Takes a Selfie

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured a historic group selfie with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on April 6, 2021. But how was the selfie taken? Vandi Verma, Perseverance’s chief engineer for robo...

Artemis I Moon to Mars Briefing

NASA Leadership provides a briefing to discuss the agency’s Moon to Mars exploration plans. NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft will launch from the center’s launch pad 39B on a f...

Media Reel: Mariner 4 Anniversary - 60 years at Mars

B-roll for media and public use. NASA in 2025 is marking the 60th anniversary of the agency’s first successful flyby of Mars. Mariner 4 flew by the Red Planet on July 14, 1965, and took 21 comple...

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Our next question comes from Pawan from Sharjah. If the spacecraft fails to slow down to some malfunctioning, what are the backup plans of the scientists for this problem, or, if the spacecraft ...

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Judy from Athol: On August 27, the Earth will be as close to Mars as it ever gets. Earth will not be this close again until the year 2287. How much travel time will this save compared to other lau...

Perseverance Rover's Mastcam-Z Captures Ingenuity's Third FlightNASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter takes off and lands in this video captured on April 25, 2021, by Mastcam-Z, an imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. As expected, the helicopter flew out of its field of vision while completing a flight plan that took it 164 feet (50 meters) downrange of the landing spot. Keep watching, the helicopter will return to stick the landing. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by JPL, which also manages this technology demonstration project for NASA Headquarters. It is supported by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, and Space Technology Mission Directorate. NASA’s Ames Research Center and Langley Research Center provided significant flight performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity’s development. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust). Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis. The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover. For more about Perseverance: -mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/ -nasa.gov/perseverance Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter takes off and lands in this video captured on April 25, 2021, by Mastcam-Z, an imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. As expected, the helicopter flew ou...

Strong Budget Support for Moon to Mars Effort on This Week @NASA – March 15, 2019

Strong budget support for our Moon to Mars effort, a new crew launches to the space station, and training for Orion recovery … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!

NASA Introduces New Spacesuits for the Moon and Mars

At NASA Headquarters on Oct. 15, 2019, Administrator Jim Bridenstine introduced the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU) and Orion Crew Survival System suit which will be will be worn by...

From The Moon to Mars - NASAs Artemis Program

On the final day of the International Astronautical Congress in Washington, DC, Administrator Jim Bridenstine gave an update on the Artemis program and the critical role of international partnershi...

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...

MAVEN Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph

The philosophy of NASA's Mars Program has been "Follow the water," but "Where did the atmosphere go?" is still a lingering question. Although fluvial features such as dry riverbeds are visible on M...

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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 na...

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flight Update Media Reel

B-roll for media and public use. NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. As Ingenuity approaches its...

Voices of MAVEN

On September 21, 2014, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, or MAVEN, went into orbit around the Red Planet. Its goal: to understand how a changing atmosphere transformed Mars fro...

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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 th...

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

Millions of miles from Earth lies a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. You know this planet as Mars…but it hasn’t always been this way. There’s evidence that the Red Plane...

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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...

InSight Captures Sound of a Meteoroid Striking Mars

NASA’s InSight lander detected seismic waves from a meteoroid and was able to capture the sound of the space rock striking the surface of Mars for the first time. The meteoroid – the term used ...

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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 st...

NASA’s Curiosity Finds Climate Clues on a Martian Mountain

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada gives a tour of the rover's new home in the “clay unit,” as well as other areas scientists are excited to visit while exploring M...

MAVEN National Air and Space Museum Presentation

Ancient riverbeds, crater lakes and flood channels all attest to Mars's warm, watery past. So how did the Red Planet evolve from a once hospitable world into the cold, dry desert that we see today?...

Testing Mars Sample Return

ECAM Video on KSC

ECAM in using during NASA's Mars 2020 launch.

Happy Birthday, Curiosity!

On August 5, 2012 (PDT), NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on the Red Planet. Aboard was the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, or SAM, the most sophisticated chemistry lab ever sent to another ...

MAVEN Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer

While NASA rovers, landers, and orbiters have scrutinized the surface of Mars for decades, a key question to understanding the Red Planet's ancient habitability has hitherto gone unanswered: what h...

NASA Minute: Sept. 12, 2025

In this week’s NASA Minute a resupply mission, flying your name around the Moon, and potential life on mars.

Preparing to Land Perseverance

To prepare the Perseverance rover for its date with Mars, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission team conducted a wide array of tests to help ensure a successful entry, descent and landing at the Red Planet. F...

Mars Helicopter Team’s Final Gathering for Ingenuity Data Downlink

B-roll for media and public use. On April 16, 2024, NASA’s Ingenuity team gathered in mission control at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to celebrate the Mars helicopter’s accomplishme...