Podcast for audio and video - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory show

Podcast for audio and video - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Summary: Video and audio podcasts 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. Other topics cover tips for amateur astronomers and updates from the Mars Rover and Cassini missions.

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 Mars Curiosity Rover Update (Aug. 10, 2012) | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1:58

Mars Science Laboratory team member Jessica Samuels gives a progress report on Curiosity's first days on Mars.

 Dropping in on Mars: A Rover's Eye View | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 3:03

This movie from NASA's Curiosity rover shows all the "thumbnail" (low-resolution) frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown.

 Curiosity Bids Goodbye to Heat Shield | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 0:50

This video of thumbnail images from the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) on NASA's Curiosity rover shows the heat shield dropping away from the rover on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). It covers the first 25 seconds of MARDI observations as Curiosity descends toward the surface of Mars, starting about two and one-half minutes before touchdown. The video starts in darkness because there is no illumination inside the aeroshell. It starts about six seconds before heat shield separation (sometimes called heat shield jettison). About one-quarter of the way into this video, the heat shield starts to move away from the rover and back shell, and sunlight illuminates the inside surface of the heat shield. Over the course of the next 19 seconds, we see the heat shield falling away from the lander as the lander rapidly slows under the parachute. The heat shield is 15 feet (4.5 meters) across. The range to the heat shield increases from less than 3 feet (a meter) when it first starts to move to several hundred feet (meters) at the end of the video. The video runs at four frames per second.

 Zooming in on the Scene of Curiosity's Landing | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1:05

Follow along on a tour of the landing scene of NASA's Curiosity rover in this video made up of images from two NASA orbiters.

 Curiosity Pre-Launch Mast Test | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1:15

This video shows the mast of NASA's Curiosity rover deploying in a pre-launch test. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

 Explore Mars With Curiosity | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 0:44

This animation shows the approximate true position of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. A 3-D virtual model of Curiosity is shown inside Gale Crater, near Mount Sharp, Curiosity's ultimate destination. Like any wise hiker heading out on a trip, Curiosity will do a self-check to make sure her tools are working before she makes her way to the foot of Mount Sharp. This animation is derived from a virtual rover experience where the public can be an explorer and follow in Curiosity's journey day by day. Using the Unity game engine plug-in, the public can see what Curiosity is up to and follow in her footsteps as she explores. The "Explore Mars: Curiosity's Journey" is available at: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/explore/curiosity/ . Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

 Curiosity Has Landed | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 2:30

Relive the nail-biting terror and joy as NASA's Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT).

 Curiosity's Descent | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1:02

The Curiosity Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) captured the rover's descent to the surface of the Red Planet. The instrument shot 4 fps video from heatshield separation to the ground.

 Great Convergence of Spacecraft around Mars | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1:08

This artist's animation shows how orbiters over Mars will monitor the landing of NASA's Curiosity rover.

 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Flying Over Mars | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 0:48

This animation shows NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying over NASA's Curiosity (shown in pink) as the rover lands on the Red Planet.

 Phoning Home: Communicating from Mars | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 2:29

How will we know if Curiosity has landed safely on the surface of Mars?

 'Top Gun' Tests Radar for Mars | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 0:54

Between 2006 and 2011, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., conducted a series of aerial tests on the radar that will be used to land NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. Using a NASA Dryden F/A-18 Hornet and a Eurocopter AS350 helicopter, they tested the radar's performance at different altitudes and velocities over a simulated Martian terrain in the Southern California high desert.

 What's Up for August 2012? | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 2:16

View Mars as the rover Curiosity lands on its surface, and check out the Perseid meteor shower later this month.

 The Science of Curiosity: Seeking Signs of Past Mars Habitability | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 2:22

Unlike previous rovers sent to Mars, Curiosity is a robot chemist seeking evidence of past habitability on Mars.

 NASA Unveils 'Mars Rover Landing' Game for Xbox Kinect | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 3:43

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.

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