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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 | CleanVideoTitan Touchdown | On Jan. 14, 2005, ESA's Huygens probe made its descent to the surface of Saturn's hazy moon, Titan. | 1/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
2 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - January 2017 | The moon, Venus, Mars and the Quadrantid Meteor shower ring in the new year! | 1/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
3 | CleanVideoFlight Over Occator | This video shows a flyover of the intriguing crater named Occator on dwarf planet Ceres. Occator is home to Ceres' brightest area. | 12/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
4 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - December 2016 | See Mercury, Venus and Mars all month long and a New Year's Eve comet. With some luck, you may catch some Geminid and Ursid meteors, too. | 12/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
5 | CleanVideoCassini's High-Flying, Ring-Grazing Orbits | On Nov. 30, 2016, NASA's Cassini mission begins a daring set of ring-grazing orbits, skimming past the outside edge of Saturn's main rings. | 11/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
6 | CleanVideoSummer Clouds on Saturn's Moon Titan | NASA's Cassini spacecraft watched clouds of methane moving across the far northern regions of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, on Oct. 29 and 30, 2016. | 11/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
7 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - November 2016 | This month, see Venus at sunset, Jupiter at dawn, an evening look at Saturn, plus meteors! | 11/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
8 | CleanVideoExplorer 1: America's First Satellite | This footage from the U.S. Army's "The Big Picture" TV series recounts the tense days leading up to the successful launch of America's first satellite in 1958. | 10/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
9 | CleanVideoCorporal: America's First Guided Ballistic Missile | In mid-1944, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory embarked on the "Corporal" program to develop a guided ballistic missile. | 10/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
10 | CleanVideoJATO: JPL's First Project for the Army | The U.S. Army was the first patron of what would become the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, commissioning the lab to develop "jet-assisted take-off" rockets starting in 1939. | 10/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
11 | CleanVideoHistory Rediscovered: Early Space Age Tapes | Recently rediscovered audio recordings from the JPL archives, highlights the lab's involvement in America's early satellites for communication. | 10/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
12 | CleanVideoSpacecraft Power | There are no gas stations or power outlets in space. That's why NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars--and some other NASA spacecraft that explore the solar system--use something called "radioisotope power." | 10/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
13 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - October 2016 | What's Up for October? Moon Phases, Astronomy Day, Saturn and Venus align with a star. | 10/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
14 | CleanVideoFour Days at Saturn | NASA's Cassini spacecraft stared at Saturn for nearly 44 hours on April 25-27, 2016, to obtain this movie showing just over four Saturn days. | 9/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
15 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - September 2016 | This month: African eclipse, minor meteor showers, moon near Neptune | 9/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
16 | CleanVideoSpitzer Beyond | This mission was designed to last at least two-and-a-half years; 13 years later, Spitzer has operated far beyond the scope of the original mission. | 8/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
17 | CleanVideoCuriosity Rover Report (August 5, 2016): Four Years on Mars | After four years on Mars, Curiosity rover and her operations team are now seasoned explorers, anxious to climb to greater heights on Mount Sharp. | 8/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
18 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - August 2016 | How to spot Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, as well as the and the annual Perseid meteor shower. | 8/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
19 | CleanVideoCeres' Missing Large Craters | Ceres' lack of giant impact basins presents a puzzle to scientists. They expected to observe more large craters on the dwarf planet than have been found by NASA's Dawn mission. | 7/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
20 | CleanVideo'We Conquered Jupiter': Juno Enters Orbit | After an almost five-year journey to the solar system's largest planet, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter's orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. | 7/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
21 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - July 2016 | What's Up this month? Use Saturn as your guide to a tour of the summer Milky Way. Spot planets, constellations, nebulae and galaxies. | 7/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
22 | CleanVideoCrazy Engineering: Flying Solar to Jupiter | NASA's Juno spacecraft has traveled nearly half a billion miles to reach its destination, Jupiter. Find out how engineers made humanity's most distant solar-powered spacecraft. | 6/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
23 | CleanVideoJupiter: Into the Unknown (NASA Juno Mission Trailer) | On July 4, NASA's Juno spacecraft will enter orbit around Jupiter and pass closer to the planet than any spacecraft before. First, it must pass the trial of orbit insertion. | 6/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
24 | CleanVideoAmerica's First Lunar Surveyor Turns 50 | Surveyor 1 landed on the lunar surface on June 2, 1966, marking humanity's first controlled touchdown on the moon, and the robotic precursor to the Apollo astronaut missions to come. | 6/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
25 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - June 2016 | Find out where to look in the sky this month to find Saturn, Mars, Jupiter and a comet. | 6/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
26 | CleanVideoCuriosity Rover Report: Mars Weather Report | After two Martian years, Curiosity is more than a Mars geologist, scientist and explorer. It's a Mars weather reporter, too. | 5/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
27 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - May 2016 | What's Up for May. Two huge solar system highlights: Mercury transits the sun and Mars is closer to Earth than it has been in 11 years. | 5/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
28 | CleanVideoCrazy Engineering: Starshade/Coronagraph | Sometimes light just gets in the way. A look at two technologies that block starlight to give telescopes a better view of distant Earth-like planets. | 4/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
29 | CleanVideoTwo Years of NEOWISE Asteroid Data | This movie shows the progression of NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) investigation for the mission's first two years following its restart in December 2013. | 4/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
30 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - April 2016 | Jupiter, Mars, the Lyrid meteor shower and 2016's best views of Mercury. | 4/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
31 | CleanVideoMixed-Reality Tech Brings Mars to Earth | NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to create "Destination: Mars," a guided tour of Mars using the same Hololens technology that helps scientists plan the Curiosity rover's activities. | 3/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
32 | CleanVideoFlyby Comet Imaged By Radar | Radar data of comet P/2016 BA14 taken over three days (March 21-23, 2016), when the comet was between 2.5 million miles and 2.2 million miles from Earth. | 3/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
33 | CleanVideoUnveiling Ceres | NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed marvelous sights on dwarf planet Ceres during its first year in orbit. | 3/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
34 | CleanVideoMagnificent Mars: 10 Years of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has clocked more than a decade of service at the Red Planet and has yielded scientific discoveries and magnificent views of a distant world. | 3/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
35 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - March 2016 | Jupiter, its moons and moon shadows. | 3/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
36 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - February 2016 | Five morning planets, comet Catalina passes Polaris, and icy Uranus and icy Vesta meet near Valentine's Day. | 2/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
37 | CleanVideoFlight Over Ceres | A colorful animation shows a simulated flight over the surface of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. | 1/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
38 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - January 2016 | What's Up for January? A meteor shower, a binocular comet, and the winter circle of stars! | 1/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
39 | CleanVideoCuriosity Rover Report (Dec. 15, 2015): First Visit to Martian Dunes | Curiosity performs the first investigation of active sand dunes on another planet. Studying the Bagnold Dunes on Mars will help scientists understand the physics of Martian dunes and how they move. | 12/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
40 | CleanVideoCeres Rotation and Occator Crater | Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials. | 12/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
41 | CleanVideoCrazy Engineering: CubeSats | Honey, I shrunk the satellites! Mini-satellites are following in the footsteps of cell phones and computers. CubeSats are small but highly capable of performing a variety of space missions. | 12/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
42 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - December 2015 | View Mars this month, and get a preview of great Mars views in 2016, the best since 2005! | 12/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
43 | CleanVideo15 Years of JPL achievements under Director Charles Elachi | As we honor the retirement of Director Charles Elachi, we look back at the JPL achievements of the past 15 years. | 11/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
44 | CleanVideoA Breathing Planet, Off Balance | Earth's land and ocean currently absorb about half of all carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, but it's uncertain whether the planet can keep this up in the future. | 11/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
45 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - November 2015 | See all the phases of the moon this month -- by day and by night! | 11/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
46 | CleanVideoHalloween Asteroid | JPL scientist Marina Brozovic explains how radar will be used to study asteroid 2015 TB145 when it safely passes Earth on Oct. 31, 2015. | 10/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
47 | CleanVideoDeep Dive into Enceladus' Plume | On Oct. 28, 2015, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take the deepest dive ever through the plume of Saturn's moon Enceladus. | 10/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
48 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - October 2015 | To celebrate the 100th episode of What's Up, here's our top ten favorite celestial targets you can view this month. | 10/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
49 | CleanVideoBuoyant Rover for Under Ice Exploration | Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are developing the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, a technology that could one day explore oceans under the ice layers of planetary bodies. | 9/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
50 | CleanVideoCircling Occator Crater on Ceres (Silent) | Black and white and color animations made with new data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft highlight the topography of Occator crater on Ceres. | 9/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
51 | CleanVideoHow to Explore the Surface of a Comet or Asteroid | A robot concept called Hedgehog would explore the microgravity environment of comets and asteroids by hopping and rolling around on them. | 9/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
52 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - September 2015 | A total eclipse of the Harvest moon, plus planets and the late summer milky way. | 9/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
53 | CleanVideoVideo: Watching Rising Seas From Space | Oceanographer Josh Willis from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory narrates this video about the causes of sea level rise. | 8/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
54 | CleanVideo50 Years of Mars Exploration | The first 50 years of successful NASA missions to the Red Planet. | 8/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
55 | CleanVideoCrazy Engineering: Gecko Gripper | How geckos inspired a new NASA technology that makes things stick to each other in space. | 8/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
56 | CleanVideoSpace Shorts: Could Jupiter's Moon Europa Have an Ocean? | Jupiter's moon Europa may have an ocean more than twice the size of Earth's oceans combined. Why do scientists think so? Find out in 60 seconds. | 8/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
57 | CleanVideoTour Weird Ceres: Bright Spots and a Pyramid-Shaped Mountain | This video shows a series of animations of dwarf planet Ceres, generated from data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. | 8/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
58 | CleanVideoCuriosity Rover Report (August 5, 2015): Three Years on Mars | After three action-packed years on Mars, the Curiosity rover is ready to take on higher slopes of Mount Sharp. | 8/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
59 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - August 2015 | What's Up for August. The best Perseid meteor shower in years! And view all the current and former planets this month! | 8/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
60 | CleanVideoRadar Movie of Asteroid 1999 JD6 | Movie made from radar images of asteroid 1999 JD6, obtained on July 25, 2015. The asteroid is approximately 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) on its long axis. | 7/31/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
61 | CleanVideoCeres Topographic Globe Animation | This animation shows a color-coded map from NASA's Dawn mission revealing the highs and lows of topography on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres. | 7/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
62 | CleanVideoRadar Movie of Asteroid 2011 UW158 | A rock outcrop dubbed "Missoula," near Marias Pass on Mars, is seen in this image mosaic taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager on NASA's Curiosity rover. | 7/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
63 | CleanVideoFive Ways Mariner 4 Changed Mars Exploration | Mariner 4 was the first spacecraft to fly by Mars and send home close-up images. Find out how the mission changed the way we explore the Red Planet. | 7/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
64 | CleanVideoRover's-Eye View of Marathon on Mars | Road trip! This compilation of images from hazard-avoidance cameras on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity between January 2004. | 7/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
65 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - July 2015 | Take a grand tour of the Milky Way this month - with binoculars! | 7/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
66 | CleanVideoFirst Interplanetary CubeSat Mission | Two miniature satellites will be hitching a ride to the Red Planet to get a front row seat for InSight's landing on Mars. | 6/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
67 | CleanVideoAlien Ocean: NASA's Mission to Europa | Could a liquid water ocean beneath the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa have the ingredients to support life? Here's how NASA's mission to Europa would find out. | 6/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
68 | CleanVideoRide Along with RoboSimian | This video shows the robot's-eye view from JPL's RoboSimian on the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals course on June 5, 2015. Video speed is enhanced. | 6/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
69 | CleanVideoFly Over Dwarf Planet Ceres | A new video animation of dwarf planet Ceres, based on images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, provides dramatic flyover views of this heavily cratered, mysterious world. | 6/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
70 | CleanVideoJPL's RoboSimian Arrives at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals | Go behind the scenes at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals to see Team RoboSimian getting their robot ready for competition. Time-lapse video shows the set-up of the team garage and robotic hardware. | 6/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
71 | CleanVideoCrazy Engineering: RoboSimian Robot | RoboSimian, a four-limbed disaster response robot under development at JPL, is ready to compete in the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge on June 5-6, 2015. You go buddy! | 6/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
72 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - June 2015 | The month starts off with a beautiful close pairing of the moon and Saturn. | 6/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
73 | CleanVideoPlay video: The Final Act | NASA has found that the last section of Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf is likely to disintegrate before the end of the decade. | 5/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
74 | CleanVideoWhat is a Dwarf Planet? | Dwarf planets are a lot like regular planets. What's the big difference? Find out in 60 seconds. | 5/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
75 | CleanVideoCuriosity Rover Report: Rover Road Trip | Getting a head start on summer, Curiosity is planning a road trip to Logan's Pass on Mars. Just like Earthlings, the rover relies on a highway map and takes scenic detours along the way. | 5/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
76 | CleanVideoNASA's SMAP Satellite Monitors Texas Drought and Flood | NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite gives Texas water agencies critical information for managing the lone star state's limited water. | 5/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
77 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - May 2015 | Venus and Mercury grace the west-northwest sky an hour past sunset and the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn rule the sky this month. | 5/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
78 | CleanVideoCrazy Engineering: The Camera that Fixed Hubble | When the first images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope were too blurry, JPL scientists and engineers devised a genius fix: a camera with corrective vision. | 4/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
79 | CleanVideoJPL Runners Celebrate Mars Marathon | 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's time was considerably less. | 4/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
80 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - April 2015 | A total lunar eclipse that takes place on the night of a full moon and, later this month, the Lyrid meteor shower. | 4/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
81 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - March 2015 | A total solar eclipse in the North Atlantic and tips to prepare for the next U.S. eclipse. | 3/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
82 | CleanVideoDestination Dwarf Planet: Dawn Approaches Ceres | NASA's Dawn mission will be the first to explore a dwarf planet on March 6, 2015. This video details the spacecraft's approach and orbit insertion. | 3/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
83 | CleanVideoDestination Dwarf Planet: The Dawn Mission Nears Ceres | On March 6, the Dawn spacecraft will slip into orbit around Ceres, a dwarf planet located in the main asteroid belt. | 3/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
84 | CleanVideoSoil Moisture Mapper Antenna Deploys | Get a behind-the-scenes look at the SMAP team at the moment of spacecraft antenna deployment, Feb. 24, 2015. | 2/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
85 | CleanVideoReflections on the Pale Blue Dot | Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's co-author and widow, reflects on the meaning of Voyager's "pale blue dot" image of Earth. | 2/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
86 | CleanVideoCuriosity Rover Report: Rover Walkabout | Curiosity wraps up an investigation at Pink Cliffs while trying out a style of exploration used by geologists on Earth called "the walkabout." | 2/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
87 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - February 2015 | See planetary pairs grace the sky in time for Valentine's Day and Jupiter's moons perform a celestial ballet. | 2/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
88 | CleanVideoNASA Launches Soil Moisture Mapper | Highlights from launch, separation and solar array deployment of the SMAP spacecraft. | 2/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
89 | CleanVideoAsteroid 2004 BL86 Has a Small Moon | This movie of asteroid 2004 BL86 was generated from data collected by NASA's Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, on Jan. 26, 2015. Twenty individual images were used. | 1/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
90 | CleanVideoTechnical Origami | How do you develop the largest spinning antenna ever used on a NASA satellite? Testing, testing. . . . | 1/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
91 | CleanVideo11 Years and Counting: Opportunity on Mars | View the many unique areas that the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity traveled during its 11 year historic journey. | 1/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
92 | CleanVideoCrazy Engineering: Mars Helicopter | JPL engineers are working on a small helicopter that could 'scout' a trail for future Mars rovers, but getting a chopper that could fly in the Martian atmosphere is tricky. | 1/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
93 | CleanVideoFound: Mars Orbiter Locates Beagle 2 Lander | The Beagle 2 Lander, built by the United Kingdom, has been thought lost on Mars since Dec. 25, 2003, but has now been found in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. | 1/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
94 | CleanVideoOne Year of NEOWISE Observations Mapped | This movie shows the progression of NASA's NEOWISE survey in the year after its Dec. 2013 restart. Each dot represents an asteroid or comet that the mission observed. | 1/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
95 | CleanVideoApproaching Titan a Billion Times Closer | Drop into Titan with the Huygens probe in this video made using data from Cassini and ESA's historic mission. | 1/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
96 | CleanVideoWhat's Up - January 2015 | Jupiter's moons are putting on an amazing show this month. The orbital path of the moons is tilting edge-ON to the Earth and the sun. | 1/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
97 | CleanVideoCrazy Engineering: Ion Propulsion for the Dawn Mission | Ion propulsion isn't something found only in science fiction. Ion engines are a real deal and drive NASA's Dawn spacecraft, en route to dwarf planet Ceres. Big things do come in small packages. | 12/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
98 | CleanVideoGecko Grippers Tested in Microgravity | Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are working on adhesive gripping tools, which were inspired by the way that geckos are able to cling to surfaces. | 12/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
99 | CleanVideoVoyager Experiences Three 'Tsunami Waves' in Interstellar Space | The Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced three "tsunami waves" in interstellar space. Listen to how these waves cause surrounding ionized matter to ring like a bell. | 12/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
100 | CleanVideoThe Making of Mount Sharp | How a Martian mountain came to be: the story behind Curiosity's current location on Mars. | 12/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Do not subscribe. Sorry, NASA.
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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Excellent vidcast, but please begin distributing in a format that is compatible with the AppleTV
Does not work on ATV
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.
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