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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Podcasts:

 Martian Dune Buggy | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1:44

NASA engineers take the Curiosity test rover to California's Mojave desert to learn how to drive on Martian sand dunes.

 What's Up for July 2012? | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 2:03

How about See the Milky Way from a dark sky, Mars and Saturn too.

 Squeezing and Stretching Titan | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 0:24

This artist's concept shows "tides" on Titan raised by Saturn's gravity, as detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

 Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 5:06

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.

 WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to Home | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1:21

NASA's WISE telescope has discovered that there are fewer brown dwarfs in our solar neighborhood than previously thought.

 Inspired by Bradbury | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1:59

A Mars rover driver pays tribute to author and visionary, Ray Bradbury.

 How Hard Is It to Land Curiosity on Mars? | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 0:59

Curiosity’s dramatic landing on Mars is the most difficult and nail-biting part of the whole mission. This 60-second video from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows what it takes to touch down successfully.

 In Memoriam: Ray Bradbury 1920-2012 | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 4:06

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'.

 Vesta's Coat of Many Colors | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1:27

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.

 What's Up for June 2012? | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 2:07

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.

 Tsunami Makes Waves in More Than Just the Ocean | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1:28

GPS technology helps scientists track tsunamis and improve future warning systems.

 Curiosity Rover Scoop Test | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1:36

Curiosity will be a rolling geology lab on Mars. See how engineers take a soil sample using her stunt double.

 Touring Vesta's Craters | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 2:25

This video takes viewers on a virtual tour of Vesta's south polar basin, the 'snowman' set of craters and a crater called Oppia.

 Dawn's Virtual Flight over Vesta | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 1:36

This movie uses data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft to simulate the view from the spacecraft flying over the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.

 Super Earth Reveals Itself to Spitzer | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 0:37

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has, for the first time, captured the light emanating from a distant super Earth, a planet more massive than Earth but lighter than Neptune.

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