Mars Videos & Animations

Drive along with NASA's Opportunity Mars rover and hear the voices of scientists and engineers behind the mission. Designed to run for 90 days, the...

Donc, vous voulez étudier Mars avec un atterrisseur ou un rover, mais où l'envoyer exactement? Apprenez comment les scientifiques et ingénieurs abo...

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 possibl...

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 th...

A dust storm continues to envelop the Red Planet and Curiosity's labs are back in action.

NASA's InSight arrives at Vandenberg AFB and readies for launch, Opportunity uses its abrasion tool for the first time in 300 sols, and Curiosity c...

NASA's Curiosity finds crystals, Opportunity celebrates her 5,000th day on Mars and the MarCO smallsats get solar arrays.

This kickoff of a new Mars video series covers Opportunity's 14th anniversary on the Red Planet, Curiosity's spectacular panorama and ice deposits ...

Five decades of successful NASA missions to the Red Planet, 1965-2015.

Road trip! This compilation of images from hazard-avoidance cameras on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity between January 2004 and April 201...

On Earth, a fast runner takes a few hours to complete a marathon. On Mars, it's taken 11 years. NASA's Opportunity rover crossed that finish line i...

JPLers pounded the pavement in celebration of a Mars marathon milestone. Opportunity rover took 11 years and 2 months to clock 26.2 miles. The team...

View the many unique areas that the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity traveled during its 11 year historic journey. (Audio: music only)

A lunar eclipse, a solar eclipse and Mars has a close encounter with a comet.

Overhead and on-the-ground views of the 25-mile journey NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has made since landing in 2004. (No audio)

See how Mars Exploration Rover team members take on the demands of driving a rover millions of miles away from Earth.

Find out how the Mars Exploration Rover team traversed the Red Planet, examined the diverse environment and transformed our understanding of Mars.

Some of the team members from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover project were still in college -- or even high school -- when the rovers landed in 2004....

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

The "keys" to NASA's Mars rovers are in the capable hands of the official rover drivers. Learn how they operate the vehicles from millions of mile...

Landing a spacecraft on Mars is one of the trickiest things we do. This 60-second video explains how it's done, and the three landing systems we u...

NASA's Opportunity rover celebrates 8th anniversary on Mars.

During the three-year trek of NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, rover planners captured a horizon photograph ...

These views of Mars are just a small sampling from the 124,000 images returned by the Spirit rover. (Audio: music only)

Team members reflect on Spirit's six-years of roving Mars.

This artist's concept animation depicts key events in NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, including launch; cruise; entry, descent & landing; eg...

Even after the landers and airbags safely bounce to a complete stop on Mars, the challenges of getting to Mars continue. It will take each rover a ...

Navigators must safely maneuver Spirit and Opportunity to their precise atmospheric entry points to reach their landing targets on the surface of M...

Navigators may know best that "life is all about the journey." For seven grueling months, the navigators for Spirit and Opportunity have been analy...

See how the scientists and engineers on Earth stretch their imaginations to design the best rover system to deal with the unpredictable dangerous t...

The first episode documents the hurdles leading up to both launches. From Mother Nature being uncooperative to a problem with the cork insulation o...

The rover launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida is the "Lightning Capital of the United States." Launching a spacecraft safely is challenging enou...

This animation features the Mars Exploration Rover's entry into the martian atmosphere and final soft landing using airbags. (Audio: mechanical sou...