NASA Tests Ways to Crash Land on Mars 2
The Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device (SHIELD) is a lander concept being tested at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It could one day provide a new way for...
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Seismogram and Sonification of InSight's Big Martian Quake
This video includes a seismogram and sonification of the signals recorded by NASA’s InSight Mars lander, which detected an estimated magnitude 5 quake on May 4, 2022, the...
Bringing Mars Rock Samples Back to Earth
NASA and the European Space Agency are developing plans for one of the most ambitious campaigns ever attempted in space: bringing the first samples of Mars material safely back...
NEOWISE: Revealing Changes in the Universe 2
New time-lapse movies from NASA's NEOWISE mission give astronomers the opportunity to see objects, like stars and black holes, as they move and change over time. The videos...
NASA Mars Ascent Vehicle Continues Progress Toward Mars Sample Return
NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently reached some major milestones in support of the Mars Sample Return program. This video shows recent tests of the first and second stage...
Meet the Mars Samples: Melyn (Sample 19)
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Meet one of the Martian samples that has been collected and is awaiting return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign. As of early August 2023, NASA’s Mars...
How Do Sounds on Mars Differ from Sounds on Earth?
Did you know sound works differently on Mars than it does on Earth? Mars has a different atmosphere than Earth, so sounds on the Red Planet would sound a bit different and be...
Roscosmos Cosmonauts Prepare to Conduct Spacewalk
This computer-generated animation is a depiction of a scheduled spacewalk by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin outside the International Space Station to...
How Do Spacecraft Slow Down? We Asked a NASA Technologist
How do spacecraft slow down? Rigid heat shields and retropropulsion have been the favorites of engineers for years. Now NASA is testing a new inflatable heat shield technology...
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Find out why July 2023 was a record-breaking month, a high-flying NASA aircraft is helping to study lighting, and making landings safe for flights of the future ... a few of the...