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The Invisible Network: 07. Hunter-Gatherer | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast
In recent years, NASA has renewed its focus on the Moon. Soon, we will look up at the Moon and rediscover a magic first experienced in 1969. It’s a magic that will flow through networks more sophisticated than ever before — an...
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 3, Unleashing Innovation Small Steps, Giant Leaps
David Miranda, innovation point of contact for the Exploration Ground Systems Program’s Operations Division, offers tips for unleashing innovation.
Curated Video
Mars: when will humans get there?
Sending astronauts to Mars is a daunting prospect. But this will not deter NASA and private companies from trying to put humans on the red planet.
NASA
Gravity Assist: Gravity Assist Podcast: Why So Many Craters on the Moon? With David Kring
NASA's Artemis program will send astronauts to the lunar south pole by 2024, where there is a giant impact crater. Learn how craters teach us about the history of both the Moon and Earth.
Physics Girl
Should you go to Mars? ft Bill Nye
Would you take a trip to Mars knowing the risks? What if it were a one way trip? Should we colonize Mars? I took a trip over to the Planetary Society to meet with CEO and Science Guy, Bill Nye to discuss the potential for future human...
Curated Video
Exploring the Sky: The History and Use of Star Charts
Since ancient times, humans have be using the stars to navigate. Learn about the earliest star charts and how modern star charts are used.
NASA
Gravity Assist: She Protects Other Planets from Our Germs
As we explore Mars and other places in the solar system that might have life, scientists who work in Planetary Protection are busy making sure that we don’t contaminate them.
Curated Video
Why Africans Never Invented the Wheel
This video explores the history of wheel use in Africa and debunks the misnomer which popularly portrayks it as a pre-historic technology analogous to fire ow shelter.
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What Is NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)? (Mission Overview)
Soon to be operating from the International Space Station, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission will comprehensively measure the mineral composition of Earth’s mineral dust source regions to help...
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JPL & the Space Age: To the Rescue
In 1990, Hubble meant trouble. The highly touted space telescope was designed to escape Earth’s blurry atmosphere to capture unparalleled visual images of the universe, but its creators were shocked to discover that a minuscule flaw...
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Gravity Assist: Gravity Assist Podcast: Buying a Ride to the Moon Through Commercial Partnerships, with Steven Clarke
Steven Clarke, the Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration at NASA, talks about NASA’s plans to partner with companies for delivering new instruments and technology demonstrations to the Moon.
Next Animation Studio
Japanese startup delivering UAE’s rover to the moon in 2022
Next year’s mission will be the first of three, and will deliver Dubai’s first lunar rover and a Japanese moon robot to the surface of the moon.
Next Animation Studio
NASA plans lunar base camp near Moon's South Pole
NASA has submitted plans for a lunar base camp near the Moon’s South Pole to the National Space Council as part of its Artemis program to send humans back to the Moon as early as the middle of this decade.
Guinness World Records
Youngest South Pole adventurer
The youngest person to trek to the South Pole is Lewis Clarke, who was 16 years 61 days when he reached the Geographic South Pole on 18 January 2014, having skied 1,123.61 km (698.18 miles; 606.7 nm) from Hercules Inlet on the Ronne Ice...
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 60, Dragonfly Small Steps, Giant Leaps
Dragonfly Principal Investigator Zibi Turtle discusses NASA's planned rotorcraft-lander mission to Titan.
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The Webb Space Telescope Reaches Its New Home on This Week @NASA – January 28, 2022
The Webb Space Telescope reaches its new home, remembering our fallen heroes, and testing a VIPER in the sand … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Producer: Andre Valentine Editor: Sonnet Apple Music: Universal...
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Gravity Assist: The Moon with Sarah Noble
Jim Green is joined by lunar expert Sarah Noble to discuss how the Moon was formed, lava tubes and moonquakes, the “dark side of the Moon,” and mysteries we have yet to solve about Earth’s nearest neighbor.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Interview with NASA scientist and astronaut Jessica Meir
Find out about NASA's Artemis program, which is intended to return astronauts to the Moon during the 2020s, from American scientist and astronaut Jessica Meir.
Curated Video
Longest Ski Trip Across Antarctica by a Woman
The longest assisted journey across Antarctica on skis by a woman is 2,045 km (1270.7 miles) and was achieved by Stéphanie Gicquel (France) who skied from Messner Start to Hercules Inlet between 14 November 2014 and 27 January 2015....
Curated Video
The Donner Party’s Deadly Detour
Taking a shortcut in the unexplored American West was always a gamble – but for the Reed and Donner families it proved catastrophic.
History Squad
A Tudor Gunner
An ordinary gunner’s story of how he fought aboard Sir Francis Drake’s ship during the Spanish Armada. He gives a decks-eye view of the battle and tactics used during the by the English Navy and international trade during the Elizabethan...
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The Invisible Network: Bonus - Dr. Jim Garvin | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast
There is perhaps no one better than Jim Garvin to outline the unique opportunities for research that the Artemis missions to the Moon could provide scientists on Earth. Jim is chief scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in...
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Cassini's Infrared Saturn | Director's Cut
The Cassini-Huygens mission arrived at Saturn in 2004, beginning an epic thirteen-year tour of the ringed planet and its many moons. Cassini and its companion probe, Huygens, were an international collaboration between NASA and the...
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Explore Mars' Jezero Crater with NASA’s Perseverance Rover
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...