Mars Videos & Animations
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Mars Science Teams Investigate Ancient Life in Australia
November 15, 2019
In the Australian Outback, scientists from NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission and their counterparts from the joint European-Russian ExoMars mission visited the oldest convincing evidence for life on Earth to prepare for their own searches for signs of ancient life on Mars.
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Building NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover
August 27, 2019
See NASA's next Mars rover quite literally coming together inside a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Name NASA's Next Mars Rover!
August 27, 2019
The Mars 2020 Rover is preparing to launch to the Red Planet in July 2020, but it doesn't have a name yet. We're asking K-12 students across the United States to send in essays with their best name ideas by Nov. 1, 2019.
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Pit Crew for Mars: NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Gets Some Wheels (time lapse)
July 12, 2019
A team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, install the legs and wheels - otherwise known as the mobility suspension - on the Mars 2020 rover. The imagery for this accelerated time-lapse was taken on June 13, 2019, from a camera above the Spacecraft Assembly F...
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Crazy Engineering: Making Oxygen on Mars with MOXIE
June 12, 2019
Crazy Engineering explores a technology demonstration riding aboard NASA's Mars 2020 rover that's straight out of science fiction novels like "The Martian." It's an oxygen generator called MOXIE, designed to convert carbon dioxide - which constitutes about 96% of the Martian atmosphere - into br...
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NASA Chopper Ready for a Spin on Mars
June 06, 2019
Can we fly on Mars? The laws of physics may say it's near impossible, but actually flying a heavier-than-air vehicle on the Red Planet is much harder than that. NASA's Mars 2020 mission will deliver a technology demonstration that will put the idea to the test -- a helicopter that will perform co...
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Mars 2020 Rover Build Update
February 19, 2019
Tour the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and see the Mars 2020 mission under construction. Project System Engineer Jennifer Trosper explains the hardware being built and tested, including the rover, descent stage, cruise stage, back shell, and heat shield. This NA...
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Mars 2020 Target: Jezero Crater Flyover
December 13, 2018
An animated flyover of the Martian surface explains why Mars' Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide ancient lake-delta system, is the best place for Mars 2020 to find and collect promising samples for a possible future return to Earth.
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Mars in a Minute: (French) Comment choisir un site d'atterrissage?
November 20, 2018
Donc, vous voulez étudier Mars avec un atterrisseur ou un rover, mais où l'envoyer exactement? Apprenez comment les scientifiques et ingénieurs abordent cette question dans cette vidéo de 60 secondes du centre Jet Propulsion Laboratory de la NASA.
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Mars in a Minute: (French) Comment atterrir sur Mars?
November 16, 2018
Faire atterrir une sonde sur Mars est l'une des choses les plus complexes à réaliser. Cette vi-déo de 60 secondes explique comment cela est possible, et illustre les trois systèmes d'atterris-sage utilisés sur la planète rouge.
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Testing a Parachute for Mars
October 26, 2018
On Sept. 7 NASA's ASPIRE project broke a record when its rocket-launched parachute deployed in 4-10ths of a second - the fastest inflation of this size chute in history.
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Mars in a Minute: How Do You Choose a Landing Site?
October 15, 2018
So, you want to study Mars with a lander or rover - but where exactly do you send it? Learn how scientists and engineers tackle this question in this 60-second video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Painting Cars for Mars
October 09, 2018
What does NASA do to get a rover ready for Mars? JPL's paint shop does a thousand different paint jobs a year. And while every piece of spacecraft that comes through the shop is important, one headed for the Red Planet adds a little extra oomph.
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Mars Report: May 2018
May 24, 2018
What's the latest news from Mars? NASA's InSight lander and MarCO CubeSats are on their way to the Red Planet, a tiny helicopter will hitch a ride with the Mars 2020 rover mission, and Curiosity's drill is back in business! For more Mars exploration updates, visit https://mars.nasa.gov .
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NASA Mars Helicopter Technology Demonstration
May 11, 2018
The Mars Helicopter is a technology demonstration that will fly as a secondary payload with the Mars 2020 mission. It will demonstrate the potential of aerial flight on Mars, which may enable more ambitious missions in the future.
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Mars Report: February 2018
February 26, 2018
NASA's Curiosity finds crystals, Opportunity celebrates her 5,000th day on Mars and the MarCO smallsats get solar arrays.
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Engineering for Mars: Mars 2020 Mission
December 07, 2017
Watch hardware for NASA's next Mars rover mission being built at JPL in this interactive 360 video.
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NASA Begins Building its Next Mars Rover Mission
November 28, 2017
In just a couple of years, NASA's newest rover will be flying to Mars.
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NASA’s Mars 2020 Supersonic Parachute: Test Flight #1
November 14, 2017
The first flight of an advanced supersonic parachute system for Mars 2020. The test took place on Oct. 4, 2017 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia.
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Mars 2020 Rover Model Video
November 29, 2016
This artist's concept video shows NASA's Mars 2020 rover raising its head (its mast) and reaching out its robotic arm.
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50 Years of Mars Exploration
August 20, 2015
Five decades of successful NASA missions to the Red Planet, 1965-2015.
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Proposed 2020 Mars Rover Science Goals
July 09, 2013
A team of scientists and engineers gives proposals for NASA's 2020 Mars rover mission.
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Mars in a Minute: 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.
