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NASA | MAVEN MOI live shot with Jim Green
Jim Green gives a canned interview for the 09/19/2014 MAVEN Mars Orbit Insertion liveshots.
NASA
MAVEN Explores Mars to Understand Radio Interference at Earth
NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft has discovered “layers” and “rifts” in the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere (the ionosphere) of Mars. The phenomenon is very common at Earth and causes...
Curated Video
I WONDER - Who Was the God Mars?
This video is answering the question of who was The God Mars.
TMW Media
Searching for Life in the Galaxy: Possible planets that do or did have life
What planets could have had life on them in our solar system? What planet or moon might have life besides Earth? Searching for Life in the Galaxy, Part 2
Next Animation Studio
Mars to look bigger and brighter from Earth next month
Mars will appear bigger and brighter from Earth in the next few weeks, reports Newsweek. Next month, Mars will be closest it has been to Earth in the past 15 years.The planet will be 35.8 million miles from Earth.
Next Animation Studio
NASA to search for fossils on Martian crater
NASA plans to send its Mars 2020 rover to search for signs of ancient life on Mars’ Jezero Crater.
NASA
NASA | The Molecule Dissector - Mass Spectrometry
What do you do if you have a sample from another planet, and you want to find out if it contains a certain molecule...maybe even one that will reveal that the planet can sustain life? When scientists face a situation like this, they...
NASA
The Birth of a New Island
In late December 2014 into early 2015, a submarine volcano in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga erupted, sending a violent stream of steam, ash and rock into the air. When the ash finally settled in January 2015, a newborn island with a...
NASA
NASA Celebrates 2018 National Intern Day
In honor of National Intern Day on Thursday, July 26, 2018 NASA held an agency-wide intern Town Hall at NASA Goddard with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Here's our celebration of NASA's 2018 summer interns! NASA's Goddard Space...
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Hubble and Going Forward to the Moon
We are going forward to the Moon by 2024, but did you know that back in 2005, Dr. Jim Garvin and his team of scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at our nearest celestial neighbor for a very important reason? The Hubble team...
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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 Mars, the atmosphere today is too thin to...
Next Animation Studio
Set for launch: Starship’s huge cargo bay will unlock space
Scheduled to launch for the first time on top of its Super Heavy booster in January 2022, SpaceX’s Starship is set to revolutionize space exploration.
Astrum
How bad is the radiation on Mars?
How do scientists plan to get astronauts to Mars when space radiation is so strong? What can be done about it?
Curated Video
Comparing the Size of the Product to the Size of the Factors in Multiplication of Fractions
In this video, students learn how to predict the size of the product in a word problem involving multiplication of fractions. By comparing the size of the factors to the size of the product, students can determine which factor is...
TMW Media
Mars, Earths Closest Neighbor: The characteristics of Mars
Isn't it cold on Mars? How long is a typical day and year on Mars? What is the Terrain like on Mars? Mars, Earths Closest Neighbor, Part 1
NASA
NASA | MAVEN Profiles: Carlos Gomez-Rosa
Systems Engineer Carlos Gomez-Rosa discusses his work on the ground communication system for the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission, and his experience at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This video is the second...
NASA
It's Surprisingly Hard to Go to the Sun
The Sun contains 99.8 of the mass in our solar system. Its gravitational pull is what keeps everything here, from tiny Mercury to the gas giants to the Oort Cloud, 186 billion miles away. But even though the Sun has such a powerful pull,...
NASA
First Map of Mars Electric Currents
Five years after NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere. Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a protective global magnetic...
NASA
NASA | Planetary Scientist Profile: Brent Garry
NASA Geologist Brent Garry discusses his work studying volcanoes and lava flows on the Earth, the Moon, and Mars.
NASA
NASA | North to South
Earth's polar regions: the "canary in the coal mine" of global climate change. The time to learn more is now. Two years of intensive research and education focused on the Earth's poles began March 1, 2007 with the launch of the...
Curated Video
The Structure of the Solar System and Gravity: A Brief Overview
This video provides an overview of the structure of our solar system and how gravity plays a crucial role in maintaining this structure. The video begins with the description of the sun at the center of our solar system, and then it...
NASA
Ancient Organics Discovered on Mars
Since arriving at Mars in 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover has drilled into rocks in search of organics - molecules containing carbon. Organics are the building blocks of all life on Earth, though they can also come from non-living sources....
Encyclopaedia Britannica
What did the Viking Program Find on Mars?
Learn about the missions of the Viking space probes.