Instructional Video2:59
SciShow

Top 5 Coolest Things about Curiosity

12th - Higher Ed
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!
Instructional Video3:34
SciShow

Big Martian Lake!

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:50
SciShow

Curiosity: Mars' Next Visitor

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:04
SciShow

The Curiosity Rover Landing

12th - Higher Ed
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...
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SciShow

3 Awesome Discoveries Made by Curiosity

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:44
SciShow

The Latest From Mars: Day 2

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video3:14
SciShow

Top 5 Coolest Things about Curiosity

12th - Higher Ed
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!
Instructional Video9:39
SciShow

The 2 Secrets to Sending People to Mars

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video3:36
NASA

NASA | Need To Know: Sample Analysis at Mars Findings

3rd - 11th
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...
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: With "Terror" in the Past, Mars Scientists Plan for Exploration

9th - 10th
Mars Science Laboratory project scientist John Grotzinger describes plans for the Curiosity rover, now in Gale Crater on Mars.