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High-definition (HD) videos from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory feature the latest news on space and science findings from JPL and NASA. Topics include discoveries made by spacecraft studying planets in our solar system, including Mars, Saturn and our home planet, Earth. Missions also study stars and galaxies in our universe.
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1 | VideoWhat's up for January 2013? | Close encounters of the planetary kind | 1/2/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
2 | VideoCuriosity's Martian Holiday | Curiosity will spend the holidays at a location on Mars dubbed 'Grandma's House.' | 12/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
3 | VideoMars in a Minute: How Do Rovers Drive on Mars? | Where's the driver's seat for a Mars rover? Millions of miles away, back on Earth! Learn more in this 60-second video. | 12/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
4 | VideoNASA Radar Images Asteroid Toutatis | This 64-frame movie of asteroid Toutatis was generated from data by Goldstone's Solar System Radar on Dec. 12 and 13, 2012. | 12/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
5 | VideoMariner 2 50th Anniversary of Planetary Exploration | JPL celebrates 50 years of stellar firsts starting with world's first planetary encounter by Mariner 2. | 12/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
6 | VideoSpacecraft Pass Each Other at the Moon | This is the first footage of one orbiting robotic spacecraft taken by another orbiting robotic spacecraft at Earth's moon. | 12/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
7 | VideoAmerica's First 'First' in Space: The 50th Anniversary of Planetary Exploration | On Dec. 14, 1962, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft flew by Venus, making the United States the first country to complete a successful mission to another planet. | 12/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
8 | VideoAnimation of Curiosity Rover's Arm Movements for Taking a Self-Portrait | This animation shows how the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was positioned for taking multiple images that were combined into a self-portrait. | 12/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
9 | VideoRover Results at Rocknest | NASA's Curiosity Mars rover team wraps up its scientific study at Rocknest. | 12/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
10 | VideoGRAIL's Gravity Tour of the Moon | This movie shows the variations in the lunar gravity field as measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) during the primary mapping mission from March to May 2012. | 12/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
11 | VideoGRAIL's 'Bouguer' Gravity Moon Map | This movie shows the 'Bouguer' gravity of Earth's moon based on data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL). | 12/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
12 | VideoMap of Moon's Crust | This animation depicting the crustal thickness of the moon was derived using gravity data from NASA's GRAIL mission and topography data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. | 12/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
13 | VideoMare Orientale Flyover | NASA's GRAIL mission took this flyover video above the Mare Orientale basin of Earth's moon. | 12/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
14 | VideoSample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite on Mars Curiosity | How samples are delivered and then tested in the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite on the Mars Curiosity rover. | 12/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
15 | VideoCuriosity Roves Again | After spending six weeks doing science investigations at Rocknest, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is on the move again to Point Lake and a place to try out the drill. | 11/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
16 | VideoWhat's up for December? | Starry fireworks end the year with a bang and the Geminid meteor shower is usually one of the best of the year with up to 120 meteors per hour predicted. | 11/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
17 | VideoWatching Earth Breathe: the Seasonal Vegetation Cycle and Carbon Dioxide | Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring gas in our atmosphere. View the seasonal cycle of carbon dioxide and the increase of carbon dioxide every year due to human activity. | 11/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
18 | VideoAnimation of Curiosity Rover's First 'Touch and Go' | Animation shows NASA's Mars Curiosity rover touching a rock with an instrument on its arm, then stowing the arm and driving on. | 11/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
19 | VideoWind and Radiation on Mars | Curiosity monitors radiation and spots elusive dust devils on Mars. | 11/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
20 | VideoSAM Sniffs Mars' Atmosphere | The Curiosity rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instruments make the most sensitive measurements ever to search for methane gas on the Red Planet. | 11/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
21 | VideoWhat's up for November? | Jupiter is the star of the evening sky this month. It rises earlier as the month progresses and will be visible at sunset by month's end. | 11/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
22 | VideoFirst CheMin Results | NASA's Curiosity rover gets its first taste of Mars | 11/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
23 | VideoMars in a Minute: Is Mars Red Hot? | What would it feel like if you could stand on Mars toasty warm, or downright chilly? Find out in this 60-second video. | 11/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
24 | VideoCloudSat 3-D View: Hurricane Sandy | NASA's CloudSat spacecraft over overpassed Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29 at approximately 11:25 a.m. Pacific (2:25p.m Eastern) just as Sandy was approaching the Atlantic coastline. | 10/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
25 | VideoCassini: 15 Years of Exploration | This video highlights sights and sounds from the journey of NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini launched 15 years ago and has been exploring the Saturn system since 2004. | 10/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
26 | VideoCloudSat 3-D View: Hurricane Sandy | NASA's CloudSat spacecraft flew over Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 27 at 2:17 p.m. EDT, when the storm was southeast of Charleston, S.C., and had maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour (65 knots). | 10/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
27 | VideoWorking with Curiosity's ChemCam Laser | Curiosity uses its ChemCam laser to explore a tiny cluster of rocks nicknamed 'Stonehenge.' | 10/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
28 | VideoInfrared Hotspots in a Monster Saturn Storm | This animation shows 'beacons' of hot air seen in the infrared that appeared during a great springtime storm on Saturn from January 2011 to March 2012. | 10/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
29 | VideoMars Soil Sample Delivered | NASA's Curiosity rover delivers its first soil sample to its chemistry and mineralogy instrument. | 10/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
30 | VideoHere's the Scoop! | Curiosity shakes up a scoopful of dirt, dusts off the sampling system and investigates a shiny object on the surface of Mars. | 10/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
31 | VideoWhat's up for October? | Be on the lookout for two of the brightest objects in the asteroid belt, Ceres and Vesta near Jupiter plus two meteor showers! | 10/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
32 | VideoCuriosity's First Scoopful of Mars | This video clip shows the first Martian material collected by the scoop on the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Curiosity rover. | 10/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
33 | VideoRover Gets Set to Scoop | NASA scientists and engineers prepare Mars Curiosity rover for its first scoop of soil for analysis. | 10/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
34 | VideoMars Streambed | Curiosity science team member Sanjeev Gupta explains how rounded pebbles spotted by the rover are convincing evidence of an ancient streambed on Mars. | 9/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
35 | VideoRiver Fans on Earth and Mars | Curiosity science team member William Dietrich explores the relationship between river fans found in California's Death Valley on Earth and similar fans in Gale Crater on Mars. | 9/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
36 | VideoFirst Rock Contact by Curiosity's Arm | This engineering animation depicts the moves that NASA's rover Curiosity made on Sept. 22, 2012, when the rover touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time. | 9/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
37 | VideoTribute to Jake | NASA's Curiosity heads to rock target 'Jake,' named in honor of Mars Science Laboratory engineer Jacob Matijevic. | 9/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
38 | VideoHydrogen Hot Spots on Vesta | The animation from NASA's Dawn mission shows abundances of hydrogen in a wide swath around the equator of the giant asteroid Vesta. | 9/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
39 | VideoLiving on Mars Time | NASA Curiosity flight director David Oh updates us on the rover and his familys experience on Mars time. | 9/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
40 | VideoStopping and Stretching | NASA's Curiosity rover takes a short breather on her trek to Glenelg to check out her arm instruments. | 9/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
41 | VideoCuriosity Working Its Arm | This engineering drawing shows the location of the arm on NASA's Curiosity rover, in addition to the arm's turret, which holds two instruments and three tools. | 9/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
42 | VideoDawn's Greatest Hits at Vesta | This video highlights Dawn's top accomplishments during its orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. | 9/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
43 | VideoWhat's up for September? | Inspired by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's mission to scout the moon, the annual International Observe the Moon Night is an event that you do not want to miss. | 8/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
44 | VideoMessages from Mars | Curiosity sends home special messages before heading onto the Martian plain towards her first target. | 8/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
45 | VideoDawn Spacecraft's Farewell Portrait of Giant Asteroid Vesta | A simulated flyover of the most intriguing landmarks on giant asteroid Vesta, as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. | 8/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
46 | VideoFirst Recorded Voice from Mars | Members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission listen to a voice message from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in the mission support area at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. | 8/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
47 | VideoCuriosity Communicates with Help From Its 'Friends' | This animation shows how NASA's Curiosity rover talks to Earth with the help of orbiting satellites. | 8/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
48 | VideoA Landing Site with a View | The images used for the panorama were taken by the rover's Mast Camera on Aug. 8 and 19, 2012. | 8/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
49 | VideoFlex, Zap, Roll | Curiosity performs a series of firsts this week -- flexing its arm, laser-zapping a rock and rolling on its wheels | 8/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
50 | VideoDropping in on Mars in High-Res | This movie from NASA's Curiosity rover shows most of the high-resolution frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS | 8/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
51 | VideoCuriosity: First Drive Celebration | Team members celebrate in JPL's Curiosity Surface Mission Support Area when images are received confirming Curiosity's first drive on Mars on Aug. 22, 2012. | 8/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
52 | VideoLab Testing of Curiosity's Laser | This short video clip shows final testing of the mast unit of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument for NASA's Curiosity before it was installed on the rover. | 8/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
53 | VideoPlanning Curiosity's First Test Drive | This simulation shows the first test drive of NASA's Curiosity rover. | 8/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
54 | VideoWhat It's Like to Land On Mars | This video steps viewers through a portion of the choreography needed to land NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. | 8/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
55 | VideoDigging Deep with NASA's Next Mars Lander | Mission team members for InSight, the new Mars lander mission selected by NASA to launch in 2016, explain how the spacecraft will advance our knowledge of Mars' evolution. | 8/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
56 | VideoVoyager 35 Years Later | This video drops in on mission control for NASA's Voyager spacecraft as Voyager 1 sends back data from the far reaches of our solar system. | 8/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
57 | VideoHeat Shield, Meet Mars | This sequence of images shows the heat shield from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory hitting the ground on Mars and raising a cloud of dust. | 8/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
58 | VideoChemCam Field of View | This animation depicts the location of the ChemCam instrument at the top of the mast on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity and the field of view of the instrument's camera, called the Remote Micro-Imager. | 8/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
59 | VideoCuriosity Rover Report | Curiosity remains busy on Mars by checking out her instruments and getting ready for her first test drive. | 8/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
60 | VideoWhere Were You When Curiosity Landed on Mars? | Relive the worldwide sensation of the Curiosity rover's historic landing on Mars with audiences across the country who watched the live events unfold. | 8/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
61 | VideoPresident Congratulates Curiosity Team | President Barack Obama called to congratulate JPL's director, Dr. Charles Elachi, and members of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover team for a successful landing on the Red Planet. | 8/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
62 | VideoDropping in on Mars: A Rover's Eye View | This movie from NASA's Curiosity rover shows all the 'thumbnail' (low-resolution) frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown. | 8/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
63 | VideoMars Curiosity Rover Update (Aug. 10, 2012) | Mars Science Laboratory team member Jessica Samuels gives a progress report on Curiosity's first days on Mars. | 8/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
64 | VideoCuriosity's First Low-Resolution Color Panorama | This movie shows the first 360-degree panorama in color of the Gale Crater landing site taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. It was made from thumbnail versions of images taken by the Mast Camera. | 8/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
65 | VideoZooming in on the Scene of Curiosity's Landing | Follow along on a tour of the landing scene of NASA's Curiosity rover in this video made up of images from two NASA orbiters. | 8/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
66 | VideoCuriosity Bids Goodbye to Heat Shield | This video of thumbnail images from the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) on NASA's Curiosity rover shows the heat shield dropping away from the rover on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). | 8/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
67 | VideoCuriosity Pre-Launch Mast Test | This video shows the mast of NASA's Curiosity rover deploying in a pre-launch test. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | 8/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
68 | VideoExplore Mars With Curiosity | This animation shows the approximate true position of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. A 3-D virtual model of Curiosity is shown inside Gale Crater, near Mount Sharp, Curiosity's ultimate destination. | 8/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
69 | VideoCuriosity Has Landed | Relive the nail-biting terror and joy as NASA's Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). | 8/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
70 | Video'Top Gun' Tests Radar for Mars | Between 2006 and 2011, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., conducted a series of aerial tests on the radar that will be used to land NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. | 8/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
71 | VideoGreat Convergence of Spacecraft around Mars | This artist's animation shows how orbiters over Mars will monitor the landing of NASA's Curiosity rover. | 8/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
72 | VideoMars Reconnaissance Orbiter Flying Over Mars | This animation shows NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying over NASA's Curiosity (shown in pink) as the rover lands on the Red Planet. | 8/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
73 | VideoPhoning Home: Communicating from Mars | How did we know that Curiosity landed safely on the surface of Mars? | 8/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
74 | VideoWhat's Up for August? | View Mars as the rover Curiosity lands on its surface, and check out the Perseid meteor shower later this month. | 7/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
75 | VideoThe Science of Curiosity: Seeking Signs of Past Mars Habitability | Unlike previous rovers sent to Mars, Curiosity is a robot chemist seeking evidence of past habitability on Mars. | 7/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
76 | VideoNASA Unveils 'Mars Rover Landing' Game for Xbox Kinect | Danielle Roosa, granddaughter of Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa, demonstrates NASA and Microsoft's free Kinect interactive Xbox video game, 'Mars Rover Landing.' | 7/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
77 | VideoMartian Dune Buggy | NASA engineers take the Curiosity test rover to California's Mojave desert to learn how to drive on Martian sand dunes. | 7/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
78 | VideoWhat's Up for July? | How about See the Milky Way from a dark sky, Mars and Saturn too. | 7/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
79 | VideoSqueezing and Stretching Titan | This artist's concept shows 'tides' on Titan raised by Saturn's gravity, as detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. | 6/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
80 | VideoCuriosity's Seven Minutes of Terror | Team members share the challenges of Curiosity's final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars. | 6/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
81 | VideoWISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to Home | NASA's WISE telescope has discovered that there are fewer brown dwarfs in our solar neighborhood than previously thought. | 6/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
82 | VideoInspired by Bradbury | A Mars rover driver pays tribute to author and visionary, Ray Bradbury. | 6/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
83 | VideoHow Hard Is It to Land Curiosity on Mars? | Landing the Curiosity rover on Mars is the most difficult and nail-biting part of the whole mission. See just how hard it is to land on Mars in this 60-second | 6/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
84 | VideoIn Memoriam: Ray Bradbury 1920-2012 | Ray Bradbury took part in a symposium at Caltech with Arthur C. Clarke, journalist Walter Sullivan, and scientists Carl Sagan and Bruce Murray. | 6/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
85 | VideoVesta's Coat of Many Colors | This animation of Vesta is made from images taken with Dawn's framing camera. Many of the images were taken at different viewing angles to provide stereo for use in determining the topography. | 6/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
86 | VideoWhat's Up for June? | It won't happen again until December 2117. On June 5th, 2012, Venus will transit(pass in front of) the face of the sun in an event of both historical and observational importance. | 6/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
87 | VideoTsunami Makes Waves in More Than Just the Ocean | GPS technology helps scientists track tsunamis and improve future warning systems. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
88 | VideoCuriosity Rover Scoop Test | Curiosity will be a rolling geology lab on Mars. See how engineers take a soil sample using her stunt double. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
89 | VideoDawn's Virtual Flight over Vesta | This movie uses data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft to simulate the view from the spacecraft flying over the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
90 | VideoTouring Vesta's Craters | This video takes viewers on a virtual tour of Vesta's south polar basin, the 'snowman' set of craters and a crater called Oppia. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
91 | VideoSuper Earth Reveals Itself to Spitzer | This artist's animation depicts 55 Cancri e as it orbits its star. | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
92 | VideoBlack-Hole Hunter | NASA's NuSTAR will use its X-ray eyes to scout for hidden black holes in the universe. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
93 | VideoWhat's Up for May? | View sunspots and a solar eclipse through solar-safe 'scopes this month. | 5/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
94 | VideoVesta's Shape and Gravity | This video from NASA's Dawn mission shows that the gravity field of Vesta closely matches the surface topography of the giant asteroid Vesta. | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
95 | VideoSaturn's Weirdest Ring | Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have revealed half-mile-sized (kilometer-sized) objects punching through parts of Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails behind them. | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
96 | VideoHow Do You Land on Mars? | 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 use at the Red Planet. | 4/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
97 | VideoRobotic Arm Target Practice | How engineers teach Curiosity to use a robotic arm on Mars. | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
98 | VideoMars' Whirling Dust Devil | Animation of a skinny 'dust devil' on the dust-covered Amazonis Planitia region of northern Mars. | 4/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
99 | VideoWhat's Up for April? | View Saturn all night this month, and view icy moons through a telescope. | 3/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
100 | VideoRobot Rumble! | High school students compete in a robot smackdown | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
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This could have been a great podcast. It really could have. The problem was that out of several weeks of subscription, I am yet to view a flawless episode. The video is broken, and sound is cut off in places. where it does work, it looks great, but there are simply too many breaks and freezes for this podcast to be any good. Thus: good idea, horrible quality
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1. It takes virtually no effort to make this in a format viewable on ATV (it already works on QT). 2. Itunes once again does not know what its extremities are doing, as its STILL listed on ATV menus and as viewable on the ATV.