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NASA | Desert RATS
Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS) tests procedures and equipment that could one day be a part of human space flight missions to the moon and Mars.
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Mars Gravity Map
A new map of Mars' gravity made with three NASA spacecraft is the most detailed to date, providing a revealing glimpse into the hidden interior of the Red Planet. Satellites always orbit a planet’s center of mass, but can be pulled...
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The Rocket Ranch: Episode 23: Mars 2020: In the Midst of a Pandemic
The NASA Kennedy Launch team has persevered through a global pandemic to get a Mars Rover named Perseverance to the launch pad on time. The cloud of doubt the virus cast over the Mars mission and how NASA overcame it, next on the Rocket...
Curated Video
Exploring Mars: The Red Planet and its Mysteries
This video provides an overview of Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun. It highlights key facts such as its diameter, mass, moons, and orbit period. The video also explains the origin of Mars' name, its association with the God of War,...
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NASA's Psyche Mission to an Asteroid: Official NASA Trailer
Join the journey as NASA’s Psyche mission team launches in 2022 to explore a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid, likely made largely of nickel-iron metal mixed with rock, could contain metal...
Debunked
Science Fiction VS Science Fact
Movies take a lot of dramatic license where science is concerned, but who's getting it all wrong on the silver screen. From the g-force you would suffer when achieving lightspeed to what a nuclear bomb would sound like in space we...
Next Animation Studio
SpaceX Starship to make its biggest hop yet
A SpaceX Starship prototype will make its highest hop yet as early as Friday, Dec. 3.
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NASA | Exploring the Inner Solar System (Part 2/6)
In part 2, Dr. Garvin continues explaining how much left we have to learn about Venus and recounts NASA's visits to the moon with the Apollo program. (Show Description) Chief Scientist of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Jim...
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How NASA Will Protect Astronauts From Space Radiation
August 1972, as NASA scientist Ian Richardson remembers it, was hot. In Surrey, England, where he grew up, the fields were brown and dry, and people tried to stay out of the Sun, indoors and televisions on. But for several days that...
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500th Anniversary of Humanity's First Circumnavigation of Earth
Five hundred years ago the first “orbit” of planet Earth, achieved in the spirit of the first human voyages to the Moon fifty years ago, was undertaken by the Portuguese explorer Magellan, using mission design and exploration guiding...
Maddie Moate
How To Make A Scale Solar System from Fruit! | Science Activity for Kids | Let's Go Live Maddie Greg
How To Make A Scale Solar System from Fruit! | Science Activity for Kids | Let's Go Live Maddie Greg
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Ancient Mars may have been covered in ice: study
Several billion-years-old valleys on Mars may have been formed by glaciers and not flowing rivers, according to new study in Nature Geoscience.
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NASA | 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 peered down at the planet’s surface, MAVEN is...
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NASA | Mars Atmosphere Loss: Neutral Processes
When you take a look at Mars, you probably wouldn't think that it looks like a nice place to live. It's dry, it's dusty, and there's practically no atmosphere. But some scientists think that Mars may have once looked like a much nicer...
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Newest rover set to launch its mini helicopter on Mars
Mars’ atmosphere is incredibly thin, only 1% of the atmospheric volume of earth, so getting a helicopter to fly in its thin air would be a very big deal.
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SpaceX Starship to make its biggest hop yet
A SpaceX Starship prototype will make its highest hop yet as early as Friday, Dec. 3.
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NASA's Curious Universe: Bonus: Still Curious?
At NASA, we are driven by curiosity, and we know you are too! Join us as we hear from our previous episode experts about what they’re interested in and answer some questions from listeners like you. What are you still curious about?
Physics Girl
Craziest eclipses in the solar system
A total solar eclipse passed across North America on August 21, 2017. Are there other total solar eclipses in the solar system?
AllTime 10s
10 Ways Space Travel Will Change In The Next 100 Years
Will you be able to go into space in the future? Will we return to the moon? Here are 10 ways space travel could change in the next century.
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Scientists develop robot 'hedgehogs' to explore Martian moon
Stanford researchers in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have developed a nearly completely autonomous system to explore the Martian Moon Prohos. The system consists of a...
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NASA funds research into deep-sleep journey for Mars astronauts
Astronauts might one day sleep their way to Mars by spending much of the long, arduous journey in hypothermic hibernation chambers. The trip from Earth to Mars takes approximately 200 days, one way. This presents several challenges....
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NASA attaches autonomous mini helicopter to Mars 2020 rover mission
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will carry a small helicopter that will be deployed over the Red Planet to conduct test flights and capture photos of the Martian surface.
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China to launch Mars mission next year
China is planning to send a space probe, a lander and an orbiter to Mars in 2020.
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NASA | Visions of Goddard
Excerpts from 14 short films about NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.