Instructional Video4:36
SciShow Kids

How Will Humans Live on Mars? | Let's Explore Mars! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Squeaks and Jessi would love to visit Mars one day, but our neighboring planet is very different from Earth. Together, they make a travel plan and packing list that will help them overcome the challenges of life on Mars! Thanks to our...
Instructional Video2:56
MinuteEarth

Our Best View Of Bacteria Is...From Space?!

12th - Higher Ed
Observing the effects of microbes using satellites can give us all sorts of useful information about life on Earth ... and other planets too.
Instructional Video28:03
SciShow

Everything You Need to Know About Living on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists are constantly researching different ways people could potentially live on Mars. Start making your future Martian travel plans with this collection of videos about the unique challenges of putting humans on Mars.
Instructional Video4:56
SciShow

Could Complex Life Survive on Mars - SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
The water on Mars probably doesn't have much oxygen, but new models show that life doesn't need as much O2 as we thought. And NASA is sending a claw machine to the red planet!
Instructional Video2:50
Curated Video

Mars: Dead Planet

6th - 12th
Scientists hoped the first mission to Mars would reveal life on the red planet. What did the mission find? Physics - Universe - Learning Points. Percival Lowell believed there were canals and cities on Mars. In 1965, NASA probe Mariner 4...
Instructional Video3:04
Curated Video

Mars: The Search for Water

6th - 12th
We know that Mars once had a landscape with oceans and rivers, but what happened to it? Physics - Universe - Learning Points. Although Mars is a freezing dry world today, it is thought the planet was once like Earth. If liquid water once...
Instructional Video8:00
PBS

Martians! How Aliens Invaded Earth

9th - Higher Ed
From the invading, high-tech aliens of ‘War of the Worlds’ to post-world war escapism literature and even real-life scientific exploration today, the stories of Martians have changed throughout time. Find out how we’ve gone from viewing...
Instructional Video0:49
Next Animation Studio

NASA Curiosity rover finds ancient organic molecules on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
After decades of searching for organic compounds on the Red Planet, scientists have finally been successful.
Instructional Video1:16
Next Animation Studio

NASA finds possible clue for life on early Mars

12th - Higher Ed
NASA’s Curiosity rover found organic compounds called thiophenes in soil samples that may have been produced by bacteria.
Instructional Video0:44
Next Animation Studio

NASA scientists find evidence of liquid water on Mars, boosting hopes of finding life beyond Earth

12th - Higher Ed
NASA has confirmed that there is liquid water flowing on Mars, which is a potential breakthrough in the quest to search for life beyond Earth. According to NASA scientists, liquid water runs down canyons and crater walls on Mars, leaving...
Instructional Video12:58
Music Matters

Decoding David Bowie's Harmonic Language - Composer Insights

9th - 12th
Is There Life On Mars? A harmonic analysis of one of Bowie's best. We delve into the mind of the composer and explore what makes David Bowie’s “Life on Mars” such an original and iconic song. The main focus is on the harmonic content of...
Instructional Video10:03
Physics Girl

The Surprising Ways Mars is Hostile to Life

9th - 12th
Wanna know all the reasons Mars will kill you and how we know? I hit up my friend Raquel Nuno who's a planetary geologist to find out.
Instructional Video0:59
Next Animation Studio

NASA mission to Mars: Hi-Seas team practices life on Mars on a Hawaii volcano

12th - Higher Ed
A group of researchers are living on a volcano in Hawaii to simulate life on Mars as part of a NASA-financed study, the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, also known as Hi-Seas.
Instructional Video0:54
Next Animation Studio

Life on Mars? NASA's MAVEN enters Martian orbit to find out

12th - Higher Ed
NASA's robotic spacecraft MAVEN ended its 10-month journey on Sunday when it entered orbit around Mars to begin its mission to study how Mars lost its water. According to Reuters, after traveling 442 million miles, MAVEN ignited its six...
Instructional Video3:05
NASA

Explore Mars' Jezero Crater with NASA’s Perseverance Rover

K - 11th
This guided tour of Mars' Jezero Crater from NASA’s Perseverance rover provides a glimpse of the Martian landscape from the rover's highest vantage point yet in the “Séítah” region. Perseverance Project Scientist Ken Farley points out...
Instructional Video0:58
Next Animation Studio

Ancient Mars may have been covered in ice: study

12th - Higher Ed
Several billion-years-old valleys on Mars may have been formed by glaciers and not flowing rivers, according to new study in Nature Geoscience.
Instructional Video1:28
Next Animation Studio

Scientists find cluster of underwater lakes on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have found a network of salty liquid water lakes on Mars beneath the planet’s south pole, according to new research published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Instructional Video0:46
CuriosaMente

¿Existen los marcianos? Encuentran agua en Marte

9th - 12th
¿Hay vida en Marte? El reciente descubrimiento de agua líquida en Marte fortalece la idea de que podría haber vida microscópica en nuestro planeta vecino. Se ha descubierto agua líquida en Marte, lo que aumenta la posibilidad de...
Instructional Video0:35
NASA

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Captures Record Flight

K - 11th
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made a record-breaking 25th flight on April 18, 2022. The navigation camera aboard the rotorcraft captured its longest and fastest flight to date on the Red Planet. The helicopter covered 2,310 feet (704...
Instructional Video1:06
Next Animation Studio

Magnetic shield ‘would let Mars terraform itself’

12th - Higher Ed
NASA’s chief scientist quit last weekend, saying he has found a way to get Mars to terraform itself into a paradise planet.
Instructional Video1:09
Next Animation Studio

Scientists confused by all the water they’re finding on Mars

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers looked at radar data and found there’s even more liquid-water lakes under Mars — or there may be something going on inside Mars that they don't fully understand.
Instructional Video2:41
NASA

NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover Is Breaking Records

K - 11th
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 Earth. With the help of special 3D glasses,...
Instructional Video3:14
Curated OER

Life on Mars?

6th - 12th
Travel with the Martian Lander Phoenix, and discover what conditions were found. Was there life on Mars, could life have ever existed on Mars? This clip poses the possibility of and theories related to life on Mars but ends before the...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Nova Science Now: Phoenix Mars Lander

Pre-K - 1st
This video features the mission of the Phoenix Mars Lander and what it discovered. With behind-the-scenes access, NOVA scienceNOW covers the Mars lander Phoenix's thrilling descent to the martian surface and its critical early days of...