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Gravity Assist: A Dream, a Team, a Chance to Fly on Mars, with MiMi Aung
The idea for NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter began at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a team of dedicated engineers who believed in something seemingly impossible. MiMi Aung served as the project manager on the helicopter, which has...
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Complete Java SE 8 Developer Bootcamp - Installing Eclipse
Walkthrough for the installation of Eclipse. This clip is from the chapter "Welcome!" of the series "Complete Java SE 8 Developer Bootcamp".In this section, we are introduced to the author and also learn more about the topics this course...
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UAE's Hope Mars Mission to launch by 2020
The Hope Mars Mission, also known as Emirates Mars Mission, will be the first mission to Mars by any Arab nation if it successfully launches in 2020.
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NASA | The How-To Guide to Satellites: The Design Review
Building satellites isn't easy. They're complex, expensive, and not to mention hard to make! This is why whenever NASA makes a new satellite--like the MAVEN mission to Mars--its scientists and engineers do everything they can to make...
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NASA | MAVEN: NASA's Next Mission to Mars
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? One possibility is that Mars lost its...
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NASA | Exploring the Inner Solar System (Part 6/6)
In the final part of Dr. Garvin's lecture he continues discussion for the future of exploring Mars with the upcoming Mars Science Lab/Curiosity Rover, the concepts for a future Mars sample-return mission, and his dreams of one day...
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NASA | Meet the SAM Team: Jesse Lewis
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of instruments developed for use on the Mars Science Laboratory. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Mars soil and atmosphere, this suite...
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NASA | Goddard Goes to Mars
The Martian climate remains one of the solar system's biggest mysteries: although cold and dry today, myriad surface features on Mars carved by flowing water attest to a much warmer, wetter past. What caused this dramatic transition?...
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Meet the Goddard Instrument Field Team
This video is an introduction into the world of the Goddard Instrument Field Team, known as GIFT. This team of scientists conducts fieldwork all over the world at sites that resemble the Moon, Mars, and other planetary surfaces. These...
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NASA’s plans for Gateway space station
NASA has released images of its Lunar Gateway space station ahead of its proposed launch of two modules in 2024.
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NASA’s InSight Lander Accomplishes Science Goals on Mars as Power Levels Diminish
NASA’s InSight lander touched down in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars in November of 2018. During its time on the Red Planet, InSight has achieved all its primary science goals and continues to hunt for quakes on Mars. The mission is...
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NASA | Searching for Mars' Missing Atmosphere
MAVEN will use its Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer to study the interaction of neutral gases and ions in the Martian atmosphere with the solar wind, helping scientists to understand how Mars has lost its atmosphere over time.
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NASA | Planetary CSI: Crater Science Investigations
If you want to learn more about the history of Earth and other rocky planets in the solar system, craters are a great place to look. Now, thanks to LRO's LROC instrument, we can take a much closer look at Linn? Crater on the moon--a...
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NASA | LCRD: From Vision to Reality
Since its inception in 1958, NASA has relied exclusively on radio frequency (RF)-based communications as the only viable medium for exchanging data between a mission and a spacecraft. Today, with missions demanding communication with...
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NASA | Mars Atmosphere Loss: Sputtering
How did Mars, a once wet planet, lose its early atmosphere? One possibility is through a process called "sputtering," in which atoms are knocked away from the atmosphere due to impacts with energetic particles.
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NASA | Investigating the Martian Atmosphere
The Martian surface bears ample evidence of flowing water in its youth, from crater lakes and riverbeds to minerals that only form in water. But today Mars is cold and dry, and scientists think that the loss of Mars' water may have been...
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NASA | MAVEN MOI Live Shot with Jim Garvin
Jim Garvin gives a canned interview for the 09/19/2014 MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion liveshots.
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NASA | Exploring the Inner Solar System (Part 4/6)
Part 4 of Dr. Garvin's talk includes a hypothetical trip to a near-Earth object, a look at NASA's explorations of our own place in the solar system, planet Earth, and an introduction to what makes Mars such a fascinating place to study....
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Mars Wind Currents Reveal a Surprising Feature
MAVEN is the first spacecraft specifically designed to study the Mars upper atmosphere, in order to better understand the evolution of its climate. By measuring windspeed and direction near the top of the atmosphere, MAVEN has discovered...
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The Rocket Ranch: Episode 26: Perseverance Rover: Rapid Disassembly, Martian Mission, and Beyond
After a 300 million mile journey through space, the Mars Perseverance Rover is ready to begin the most challenging part of the trip, landing on the red planet. If successful, it will embark on the most advanced mission ever sent here, to...
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Planetary Fieldwork: A HI-SEAS Adventure
On the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawai'i, scientists from NASA Goddard partnered with the crew of the HI-SEAS habitat to conduct field tests with a backpack-sized instrument called the Miniaturized Laser Heterodyne Radiometer (mini-LHR). The...
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The Life Stage Series: Mental Development - The Rocket Ship Adventure
3...2...1... Blast off! Best friends Cate and Rani become astronauts for the day, shooting through space to learn about all the planets in the solar system. But wait... they’ve started to run out of fuel! Throw on your spacesuit and help...
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NASA | The Mars Chamber
The Mars chamber is a box--about the size of a refrigerator--that re-creates the temperatures, pressures, and atmosphere of the Martian surface, essentially creating a Mars environment on Earth! Scientists and engineers use this chamber...
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NASA | Exploring the Inner Solar System (Part 5/6)
In part 5, Dr. Garvin conveys the amazing past successes of robotic explorations on Mars and what we have to look forward to with the upcoming Mars Science Lab, also known as the Curiosity rover. (Show Description) Chief Scientist of...