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Episode 7: Flying with Ingenuity: the Mars Helicopter

Bob Balaram and Teddy Tzanetos share stories of how the Mars helicopter came to be, and transport us on Ingenuity’s flights through dusty Martian skies. .

July 20, 2022

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Episode 6: The Promise of Perseverance

The Perseverance rover holds many promises: to look for evidence of life on Mars, to collect rock samples meant to be sent to Earth one day, and to test technology that could be used in a future human Mars mission. .

June 8, 2022

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Episode 5: A Ton of Curiosity

The Curiosity rover is a big nerd at heart, fitted with a science lab to take in the planet Mars. Get the inside scoop on the mission’s many discoveries and dramas after a decade on the Red Planet. .

April 21, 2022

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Episode 4: A Lifetime on Mars: The Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity

Born together, the Spirit and Opportunity twin rovers followed divergent paths after they landed on opposite sides of Mars. Opportunity’s journey was marked by good fortune, while Spirit’s was troubled from the start. .

March 16, 2022

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Episode 3: Rise of the Twins: Spirit and Opportunity

After two failed missions to Mars, NASA tried to double its odds for success by sending twin rovers to the Red Planet. Part one of the story of Spirit and Opportunity takes us from their birth to their launch from Earth. .

Feb. 16, 2022

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Episode 2: First Steps: Sojourner

NASA’s first rover on Mars was a cute little bundle of robotic joy. Many thought it was likely to fail. Instead, Sojourner revolutionized how we explore Mars, and marked the start of 25 years of Mars rover adventures. .

Jan. 18, 2022

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Episode 1: Driven to Mars

Episode one launches with Jennifer Trosper in the driver’s seat. As she looks in the rearview mirror at twenty-five years of exploring with NASA’s Mars rovers, she reveals how their progression has kept pace with milestones in her life. .

Dec. 20, 2021

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Season 4 Preview: Mars Rovers

In the fourth season of “On a Mission” we’ll be transported to the Red Planet with all five of NASA’s Mars rovers. .

Dec. 13, 2021

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Episode 10: A Voyager’s View of Earth

The Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled farther away from Earth than any human-made object. Candy Hansen and David Grinspoon talk about the Voyager mission, and its humbling perspective of our planet as a tiny blue dot in the blackness of space. .

Dec. 22, 2020

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Episode 9: Life Bound

We hike in the Australian Outback with Abigail Allwood to visit the most ancient fossils on Earth, and track the imprint of life over space and time with David Grinspoon. .

Dec. 15, 2020

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Episode 8: Fueled by Fire

From fires in outer space to raging wildfires on Earth, fire experts Gary Ruff and Natasha Stavros reveal how fingers of flame reach out around our world. .

Dec. 8, 2020

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Episode 7: Storm Warning

Get swept away as we fly into massive hurricanes, and hear how the rumblings of climate change will cause clouds to gather into ever more powerful storms. .

Dec. 1, 2020

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