Instructional Video6:12
SciShow Kids

How Will We Get To Mars? | Let's Explore Mars! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Mars has a ton of amazing features waiting to be explored, but we have to get there first. Thanks to our partners at the Boston Museum Of Science for helping us think about everything we need to plan a trip! Squeaks and Jessi would love...
Instructional Video4:09
SciShow

3 New Missions Just Left for Mars! | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
A launch window that only happens every 26 months means it’s the perfect time to head to Mars! The United Arab Emirates, China, and the United States all took advantage of this excellent timing.
Instructional Video17:14
TED Talks

TED: Your kids might live on Mars. Here's how they'll survive | Stephen Petranek

12th - Higher Ed
It sounds like science fiction, but journalist Stephen Petranek considers it fact: within 20 years, humans will live on Mars. In this provocative talk, Petranek makes the case that humans will become a spacefaring species and describes...
Instructional Video1:50
Next Animation Studio

The technology and ideas required to replicate the movie Dune

12th - Higher Ed
The success of the new Dune movie has people speculating about whether humans changing Mars’s surface and atmosphere to be more like Earth’s. But is it possible?
Instructional Video0:58
Next Animation Studio

NASA Mars mission: Scientists detect atomic oxygen in Mars' atmosphere

12th - Higher Ed
For the first time in four decades, NASA has found oxygen in Mars' atmosphere. The last time oxygen was detected in the Martian atmosphere was in the 1970s during NASA's Viking and Mariner missions. This time around, atomic oxygen in the...
Instructional Video10:03
Physics Girl

The Surprising Ways Mars is Hostile to Life

9th - 12th
Wanna know all the reasons Mars will kill you and how we know? I hit up my friend Raquel Nuno who's a planetary geologist to find out.
Instructional Video2:22
NASA

NASA | Investigating the Martian Atmosphere

3rd - 11th
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...
Instructional Video2:18
NASA

MAVEN Explores Mars to Understand Radio Interference at Earth

3rd - 11th
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...
Instructional Video2:20
NASA

NASA | Targeting Mars

3rd - 11th
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is quickly approaching Mars on a mission to study its upper atmosphere. When it arrives on September 21, 2014, MAVEN's winding journey from Earth will culminate with a dramatic engine burn, pulling the spacecraft...
Instructional Video3:53
NASA

NASA | MAVEN Mission to Mars

3rd - 11th
NASA | MAVEN Mission to Mars
Instructional Video1:06
Next Animation Studio

Magnetic shield ‘would let Mars terraform itself’

12th - Higher Ed
NASA’s chief scientist quit last weekend, saying he has found a way to get Mars to terraform itself into a paradise planet.