In which Hank celebrates the landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover, which, if you were following SciShow on Twitter, you know was pretty freaking cool. So here are the Top Five Coolest Things about the Mars Curiosity Rover!

Hank shares the latest exciting findings from the Mars Science Laboratory, known to its friends as Curiosity. Learn what Curiosity has discovered about the giant Gale Crater, and what those developments mean for the prospects of ancient...

Plutonium powered robot car! With a laser gun! That's (kind of) what's hurtling through space right now as part of NASA Mars Science Laboratory heads for the Red Planet. Hank walks you through this historic mission, with the help of some...

Landing will take place the night of August 5th, 1:30 AM eastern, 10:30 pm pacific, and 6:30 AM GMT (August 6th.)

The Mars Science Laboratory or Curiosity Rover is the largest payload ever delivered to the surface of a planet and...

Happy birthday, Curiosity! Michael Aranda and SciShow News celebrate the first anniversary of the Mars Science Laboratory landing on Mars with 3 awesome discoveries that the universe's coolest rover has made so far. Hints: they involve...

Hank briefs us on the current status of the Mars Science Laboratory, and gives us a taste of what we can hope to see coming from it in the next few months, and during the rest of its two year mission.

In which Hank celebrates the landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover which you know was pretty freaking cool. So here are the Top Five Coolest Things about the Mars Curiosity Rover!

Hank revisits his passion for exploring the Red Planet, breaking down the two biggest challenges of sending humans to Mars: radiation and propulsion. He explains the science behind the obstacles future Mars-bound astronauts...

There’s big news coming out of the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite (SAM) on NASA’s Curiosity rover. For the first time, organic matter has definitively been detected on Mars. In addition to finding organic compounds in...

Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on its final mission STS-134 to deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station / CU rocket boosters firing / Shuttle on launch pad, lifting off...

Animation of Mars Rover Curiosity on Mars surface / Rover rolling around on surface / Rover shoots a laser at an object to learn more about it / Rover using tools to further explore items / Rover drilling into Mars rock and retrieving...

Animation of Mars Rover Curiosity on Mars surface starting to explore its surroundings / mast with cameras are deployed / rover looking around, rolling along the dusty red surface and leaving wheel tracks behind

Animation of traveling through space past galaxies

/ actual images of the last 2 and a half minutes of the Mars Rover's descent onto the surface of Mars at the Gale Crater location. Imagery showing the Mars Rover landing on Mars on August 05, 2012 in In Space (Footage by Getty Images)

/ panorama view of the surface of Mars at the Gale Crater landing site as seen from images taken by NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover. Panorama of Mars surface from Curiosity Rover on August 05, 2012 in In Space (Footage by Getty Images)

/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory employees watch as Mars Curiosity Rover successfully lands on Mars surface / interspersed with animation of the landing. JPL mission control watches as Mars Curiosity Rover lands on Mars on August 05, 2012 in...

/ profile of Mars Science Laboratory Flight Director, Bobak Ferdowsi. NASA's 'Mohawk Guy', Bobak Ferdowsi on August 08, 2012 in Pasadena, California (Footage by Getty Images)

/ 360 panorama view of the landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover / shows the highest part of Mount Sharp. Panoramic view of Mars surface taken by Curiosity Rover on August 8th & 19th, 2012.

/ preparation of the Atlas V rocket that will launch the Mars Curiosity Rover into space / crowds waiting for launch / NASA Administrator, Charlie Bolden, speaks to crowd / flags with rainbow in background / time-lapse of Atlas V rocket...

/ NASA engineers, wearing protective white clothing, prepare Mars Curiosity Rover for launch on Atlas V rocket. Engineers prepare Mars Curiosity Rover for launch on November 10, 2011 in Cape Canaveral, Florida (Footage by Getty Images)

/ NASA engineers, wearing protective white clothing, prepare the Mars Curiosity rover for launch. Engineers prepare Mars Curiosity Rover for launch on November 10, 2011 in Cape Canaveral, Florida (Footage by Getty Images)

/ people in JPL mission control await Atlas V launch that will take Mars Curiosity Rover to Mars / countdown clock to launch. JPL Mission Control prepares for Mars Rover launch on November 26, 2011 in Cape Canaveral, Florida (Footage by...