Mars in a Minute: What Happens When the Sun Blocks our Signal?

March 19, 2013

Mars in a Minute: What Happens When the Sun Blocks our Signal?

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 Rover Hits Paydirt

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

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Mars in a Minute: Why is Curiosity Looking for Organics?

March 6, 2013

Mars in a Minute: Why is Curiosity Looking for Organics?

What are organic molecules, and what can they tell us about the history of Mars? Learn more in this 60-second video.

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Antarctic Sub-glacial Lake Mini-Sub

February 27, 2013

Antarctic Sub-glacial Lake Mini-Sub

NASA/JPL researcher Alberto Behar joins an international Antarctic expedition to investigate a subglacial lake.

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What's up for March 2013?

February 27, 2013

What's up for March 2013?

The first of this year's two potential bright comets is visible for those who can see low on the western horizon and find out which spacecraft is on a 10-year mission to catch up with another comet.

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Curiosity Collects First Rock Sample on Mars

February 21, 2013

Curiosity Collects First Rock Sample

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

Drilling into Mars

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.

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Demonstration of Rover Rock Drilling at JPL

February 20, 2013

Demonstration of Rover Rock Drilling at JPL

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.

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Early Radar Observations of Asteroid 2012 DA14

February 19, 2013

Early Radar Observations of Asteroid 2012 DA14

This 73-frame movie of asteroid 2012 DA14 was generated from data obtained by NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on the night of Feb. 15 to 16, 2013.

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Outbound Near-Earth Asteroid, as Seen from Spain

February 15, 2013

Outbound Near-Earth Asteroid, as Seen from Spain

Images from the La Sagra Sky Survey, operated by the Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca in Spain, showing asteroid 2012 DA14 around 12:59 p.m. PST (3:59 p.m. EST, or 20:59 UTC) on Feb. 15, 2013.

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