HD - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Summary: High-definition (HD) videos from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory feature the latest news on space and science findings from JPL and NASA. Topics include discoveries made by spacecraft studying planets in our solar system, including Mars, Saturn and our home planet, Earth. Missions also study stars and galaxies in our universe.
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This movie from the Murrumbateman Observatory in Australia shows asteroid 2012 DA14 as it makes a close -- but safe -- flyby of Earth. The images were taken around 17:18 UTC (12:18 p.m. EST, or 9:18 a.m. PST) on Feb. 15, 2013, before the asteroid's closest approach to Earth. The asteroid can be seen first at the bottom right part of the screen and then moves up.
A narrated animation depicting the trajectory of asteroid 2012 DA14 as it travels within the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013.
Seen at 12:59 UTC from Samford Valley Observatory, Brisbane, Australia
This animation depicts NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drilling a hole to collect a rock-powder sample at a target site called "John Klein."
This series of images of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) was taken by the Medium-Resolution Imager of NASAs Deep Impact spacecraft over a 36-hour period on Jan. 17 and 18, 2013.
An animation depicting the trajectory of asteroid 2012 DA14 as it travels within the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013.
The flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14 on Feb. 15, 2013, will be the closest known approach to Earth for an object its size.
On February 15 a small asteroid named 2012 DA-14 will whiz by, only 18,000 miles from Earth. It doesn't pose any threat to us, but it is sure to create a buzz around the world.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures the springtime thaw of seasonal carbon dioxide ice on Mars.
NASA's Curiosity rover finds calcium deposits on Mars similar to those seen on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures.
This animation re-creates the final descent of ESA's Huygens probe as it landed on Titan on Jan. 14, 2005, after it was dropped off by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Three days prior to its planned impact on a lunar mountain, mission controllers activated the camera aboard one of NASA's GRAIL twins to take some final photos from lunar orbit.
NASA's Curiosity rover dusts off a rock on Mars for the first time.
New Year's Eve revelers watching giant screens in New York's Times Square saw a special Happy New Year greeting from Mars, currently 206 million miles away.
