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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After spending six weeks doing science investigations at Rocknest, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is on the move again to Point Lake and a place to try out the drill.
Starry fireworks end the year with a bang and the Geminid meteor shower is usually one of the best of the year. Though the shower's peak is brief, on the night of December 13 and 14, up to 120 meteors per hour are predicted, if you live in an area with dark skies.
Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring gas in our atmosphere. View the seasonal cycle of carbon dioxide and the increase of carbon dioxide every year due to human activity.
Animation shows NASA's Mars Curiosity rover touching a rock with an instrument on its arm, then stowing the arm and driving on.
Curiosity monitors radiation and spots elusive dust devils on Mars.
The Curiosity rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instruments make the most sensitive measurements ever to search for methane gas on the Red Planet.
Jupiter is the star of the evening sky this month. It rises earlier as the month progresses and will be visible at sunset by month's end.
NASA's Curiosity rover gets its first taste of Mars
What would it feel like if you could stand on Mars toasty warm, or downright chilly? Find out more about the temperature on Mars in this 60-second video from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA's CloudSat spacecraft overpassed Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29 at approximately 11:25 a.m. Pacific (2:25p.m Eastern) just as Sandy was approaching the Atlantic coastline.
This video highlights sights and sounds from the journey of NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini launched 15 years ago and has been exploring the Saturn system since 2004.
NASA's CloudSat spacecraft flew over Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 27 at 2:17 p.m. EDT, when the storm was southeast of Charleston, S.C., and had maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour (65 knots).
Curiosity uses its ChemCam laser to explore a tiny cluster of rocks nicknamed 'Stonehenge.'
These infrared hotspots in Saturn's northern hemisphere are shown in a side view and a top view of Saturn.
NASA's Curiosity rover delivers its first soil sample to its chemistry and mineralogy instrument.
