Episodes

Episodes

• Methane Hot Spots 2023-10-31
• NASA’s CADRE: Mini Rovers to Explore the Moon as a Team 2023-10-03
  NASA’s CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration is sending a trio of rovers the size of a carry-on…
• Preserving the Past: Restoring Damaged Photo Negatives 2023-09-13
  This video shows how the JPL Archives performs conservation efforts to preserve the content of the photos in our Still Negatives Collection. Digital…
• Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Views Ingenuity's 47th Takeoff 2023-03-17
  March 14, 2023 NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen here at the starting point of its 47th flight on Mars. This video shows the dust initially…
• Perseverance’s Sample Tubes Ready for Mars 2020-12-22
  One key activity for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which is on its way to the Red Planet, will be to collect samples of Martian rock and…
• Perseverance Arrives at Mars: Feb. 18, 2021 2020-12-21
  After nearly 300 million miles (470 million km), NASA’s Perseverance rover completes its journey to Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. But, to reach the surface…
• NISAR: Watching the Earth Move Under Our Feet 2020-12-17
  The joint U.S.-Indian NISAR satellite mission will use radar to observe a wide range of Earth processes, from the flow rates of glaciers and ice…
• Getting Perseverance to the Launch Pad 2020-07-22
  In February 2020, NASA’s Perseverance Rover began its long journey to Mars by first traveling across the United States. The rover was built at…
• NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: The First Aircraft on Mars 2020-07-14
  NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will make history's first attempt at powered flight on another planet next spring. It is riding with the agency's…
• Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Sample Caching System 2020-06-02
  Watch as NASA-JPL engineers test the Sample Caching System on the Perseverance Mars rover. Described as one of the most complex robotic systems ever…
• Working Remotely: How Astronauts Upgraded a Complex Experiment in Space 2020-05-12
  NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory underwent a major hardware upgrade aboard the International Space Station in January 2020. The mission team at…
• Curiosity’s 1.8 Billion-Pixel Panorama on Mars 2020-03-04
  NASA Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada guides this tour of the rover's view of the Martian surface.
• NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: Unveiling the Universe 2020-01-15
  After 16 years of unveiling the infrared universe, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has left a singular legacy. As one of NASA’s four Great…
• NASA's New Planet Tracker, NEID 2020-01-08
  A new NASA-funded planet-hunting instrument has been installed on the WIYN telescope, on Arizona's Kitt Peak. NEID (pronounced NOO-id) is a…
• Neptune Moon Dance (animation) 2019-11-14
  See how the odd orbits Neptune's inner moons Naiad and Thalassa enable them to avoid each other, as they race around the planet. Researchers call it…
• NASA InSight's Robotic Arm Helps Out its Mole on Mars 2019-10-03
  NASA's InSight lander on Mars is trying to use its robotic arm to get the mission’s heat flow probe, or mole, digging again. InSight team engineer…
• NASA Climbing Robot Scales Cliffs and Looks for Life 2019-07-10
  LEMUR belongs to a new generation of robots being built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that can crawl, walk and even climb rock walls.
• Landing NASA's Mars 2020 Rover with Terrain Relative Navigation 2019-07-01
  The Mars 2020 mission is facing the most challenging landing yet on the Red Planet. It will touch down on Feb. 18, 2021, in Jezero Crater, a…
• NASA Chopper Ready for a Spin on Mars 2019-06-06
  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…
• NASA’s Curiosity Finds Climate Clues on a Martian Mountain 2019-05-15
  After spending the better part of a year exploring Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has moved to a new part of Mount Sharp.…
• NASA's OCO-3: A New View of Carbon 2019-04-02
  NASA's OCO-3 mission is ready for launch to the International Space Station. This follow-on to OCO-2 brings new techniques and new technologies to…
• Opportunity: NASA Rover Completes Mars Mission 2019-02-13
  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…
• Voyager 2 Enters Interstellar Space 2018-12-10
  Forty-one years after it launched into space, NASA's Voyager 2 probe has exited our solar bubble and entered the region between stars. Its twin,…
• Sounds of Mars: NASA's InSight Senses Martian Wind 2018-12-07
  Listen to Martian wind blow across NASA's InSight lander. The spacecraft's seismometer and air pressure sensor picked up vibrations from 10-15 mph…
• InSight Landing on Mars 2018-10-31
  When NASA's InSight descends to the Red Planet on Nov. 26, 2018, it is guaranteed to be a white-knuckle event.
• OMG Mission Video 2018-10-01
  Join JPL scientist Josh Willis as he and the NASA Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) team work to understand the role that ocean water plays in melting…
• Dusk for Dawn: NASA Mission to the Asteroid Belt 2018-09-07
  NASA's Dawn spacecraft turned science fiction into science fact by using ion propulsion to explore the two largest bodies in the main asteroid belt,…
• 15 Years in Space: Spitzer Space Telescope 2018-08-24
  Initially scheduled for a 2.5-year primary mission, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has gone far beyond its expected lifetime -- and is still going…
• Rare Double Asteroid Revealed 2018-07-12
  Three of the world's largest radio telescopes team up to show a rare double asteroid. 2017 YE5 is only the fourth binary near-Earth asteroid ever…
• Sounds of Saturn: Hear Radio Emissions of the Planet and Its Moon Enceladus 2018-07-09
  New research from the up-close Grand Finale orbits of NASA's Cassini mission shows a surprisingly powerful interaction of plasma waves moving from…
• NASA Mars Report: July 3, 2018 2018-07-03
  A dust storm continues to envelop the Red Planet and Curiosity's labs are back in action.
• Monitoring Plant Health from Space: The ECOSTRESS Mission 2018-06-25
  ECOSTRESS is a new NASA Earth science mission to study how effectively plants use water by measuring their temperature from space. ECOsystem…
• NEOWISE: Four Years of Asteroid and Comet Data 2018-04-23
  NASA's asteroid-hunting NEOWISE survey has observed or detected more than 29,000 asteroids in infrared light.
• Watching the First Interplanetary Launch from America's West Coast 2018-04-06
  NASA's InSight will be the first interplanetary launch from America's West Coast. Residents in some of California's coastal communities could get a…
• NASA Mars InSight 2018-03-29
  NASA's next mission to Mars is weeks away from launch. InSight is more than a Mars mission. Its team members hope to unlock the mysteries of the…
• Mars in a Minute: Are There Quakes on Mars? 2018-03-28
  Are there earthquakes on Mars? Or rather, "marsquakes?" And what could they teach us about the Red Planet? Find out more in this 60-second video…