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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Unlike previous rovers sent to Mars, Curiosity is a robot chemist seeking evidence of past habitability on Mars.
Danielle Roosa, granddaughter of Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa, demonstrates NASA and Microsoft's free Kinect interactive Xbox video game, "Mars Rover Landing." The new game lets players try their skill at landing the Curiosity rover on Mars. The game is available free of charge in the Xbox Live Marketplace and Kinect Central.
NASA engineers take the Curiosity test rover to California's Mojave desert to learn how to drive on Martian sand dunes.
How about See the Milky Way from a dark sky, Mars and Saturn too.
This artist's concept shows "tides" on Titan raised by Saturn's gravity, as detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Engineers who designed the entry, descent and landing system for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity candidly talk about the new landing system, and describe the challenges of Curiosity's final moments before touchdown on Aug. 5, 2012, at 10:31pm PDT.
NASA's WISE telescope has discovered that there are fewer brown dwarfs in our solar neighborhood than previously thought.
A Mars rover driver pays tribute to author and visionary, Ray Bradbury.
Curiositys dramatic landing on Mars is the most difficult and nail-biting part of the whole mission. This 60-second video from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows what it takes to touch down successfully.
This animation of Vesta is made from images taken with Dawn's framing camera. Many of the images were taken at different viewing angles to provide stereo for use in determining the topography.
On November 12, 1971, on the eve of Mariner 9 going into orbit at Mars, Ray Bradbury took part in a symposium at Caltech with Arthur C. Clarke, journalist Walter Sullivan, and scientists Carl Sagan and Bruce Murray. In this excerpt, Bradbury reads his poem 'If Only We Had Taller Been'.
It won't happen again until December 2117. On June 5th, 2012, Venus will transit(pass in front of) the face of the sun in an event of both historical and observational importance.
GPS technology helps scientists track tsunamis and improve future warning systems.
Curiosity will be a rolling geology lab on Mars. See how engineers take a soil sample using her stunt double.
This video takes viewers on a virtual tour of Vesta's south polar basin, the 'snowman' set of craters and a crater called Oppia.
