Video Archive

2013

Curiosity's Cameras - June 13, 2013

Curiosity is at Point Lake on Mars and will snap pictures to send home. Find out more about the rover's 17 cameras, including why some shoot in color and others others take black-and-white images.

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Dry Ice Moves on Mars - June 11, 2013

Is frozen carbon dioxide a key to features in some Martian gullies? To find out, scientists grabbed a bag of dry ice and took a road trip.

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Rover Ready to Switch Gears - June 07, 2013

NASA's Curiosity rover switches to long-distance driving mode as she heads to Mount Sharp.

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Curiosity Mars Rover Drilling Into Its Second Rock - June 05, 2013

This sequence of images from the Front Hazard-Avoidance Camera on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows the rover drilling into rock target 'Cumberland.' The drilling was performed during the 279th Martian day, or sol, of the Curiosity's work on Mars (May 19, 2013). The video runs at accelerated speed and loops the sequence of images four times. The actual elapsed time is 25 minutes.

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Rover Readies for Second Drilling - May 16, 2013

Curiosity prepares for a second drilling and a tutorial on the complicated choreography to get the drill sample to her instruments.

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'Spring Break' Over: Commanding Resumes - May 09, 2013

Curiosity gets new software and new capabilities for the long trek to Mt. Sharp.

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Mars' Bygone Atmosphere - April 12, 2013

NASA's Curiosity finds that the Red Planet doesn't have the same atmosphere it used to.

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Inspiring Students to Build Robots - April 04, 2013

Bobak Ferdowsi, Curiosity flight director, shares a special message with students on building robots.

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MAVEN Magnetometer - March 29, 2013

When you navigate with a compass you can orient yourself thanks to Earth's global magnetic field. But on Mars, if you were to walk around with a compass it would haphazardly point from one anomaly to another, because the Red Planet does not possess a global magnetosphere. Scientists think that this lack of a protective magnetic field may have allowed the solar wind to strip away the Martian atmosphere over billions of years, and now NASA's MAVEN spacecraft will study this process in detail with its pair of ring core fluxgate magnetometers. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Dan Gallagher

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What Happens When the Sun Blocks our Signal? - March 20, 2013

How can you communicate with Mars spacecraft when the Sun is in the way? Learn more about 'solar conjunction' in this 60-second video.

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Curiosity Rover Hits Paydirt - March 15, 2013

Curiosity's analyzed rock sample proves ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.

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Why is Curiosity Looking for Organics? - March 06, 2013

Has Mars ever had the right ingredients for life? What are organic molecules, and what can they tell us about the history of Mars? Learn more in this 60-second video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Curiosity Collects First Rock Sample on Mars - February 21, 2013

Curiosity rover obtains the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet.

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Drilling into Mars - February 20, 2013

This animation of NASA's Curiosity rover shows the complicated suite of operations involved in conducting the rover's first rock sample drilling on Mars and transferring the sample to the rover's scoop for inspection. The drilling and sample transfer took place on Feb. 8 and 20, 2013, or sols 182 and 193, Curiosity's 182nd and 193rd Martian days of operations.

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Video Clip of a Rover Rock-Drilling Demonstration at JPL - February 20, 2013

This video clip shows moments during a demonstration of drilling into a rock at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., with a test double of the Mars rover Curiosity. The drill combines hammering and rotation motions of the bit.

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Curiosity Drills on Mars - February 15, 2013

NASA's Curiosity drills for first sample from inside a rock on Mars.

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Simulation of Martian Bedrock Drilling - February 09, 2013

This animation depicts NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drilling a hole to collect a rock-powder sample at a target site called "John Klein"

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Mars: Dry Ice and Dunes - January 24, 2013

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures the springtime thaw of seasonal carbon dioxide ice on Mars.

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Curiosity Finds Calcium-Rich Deposits - January 18, 2013

NASA's Curiosity rover finds calcium deposits on Mars similar to those seen on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures.

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Curiosity Rover Gives Mars the Brush-Off - January 10, 2013

NASA's Curiosity rover dusts off a rock on Mars for the first time.

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