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January 14, 2020 Mars 2020 Lift Activities in PHSF at Kennedy Space Center.

February 06, 2020 When NASA’s Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021, it will seek signs of past microbial life and characterize the planet’s climate and geology. It is the first rover ever to carry a drill for coring samples from Martian rocks and soil. This series of animations shows… Continue reading NASA Mars 2020 Rover Sample Collection Animation

February 12, 2020 Mars 2020 rover arrives at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for processing.

March 05, 2020 Sending a rover to the Red Planet is more than just 3…2…1… Liftoff! It takes hundreds of people and years of hard work to get a spacecraft from Earth to Mars. So when NASA’s Perseverance rover touches down on the Martian surface, it will be because of the talented NASA minds that helped… Continue reading Behind the Spacecraft: Perseverance – The Next Mars Rover

March 05, 2020 NASA has chosen a name for its next Mars rover: Perseverance. The name was announced today by Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington during a celebration at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia. Zurbuchen was on hand at the school to congratulate Alexander… Continue reading NASA’s Latest Mars Rover Has a Name

April 29, 2020 NASA’s Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, arrives at Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. Its mission: to demonstrate the first powered flight on another planet. Taking to the Martian skies in Spring 2021.

April 29, 2020 Animations for media and public use. NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will be the first aircraft to fly in a controlled way on another planet. As its own separate mission, the helicopter will hitch a ride to Mars attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover (part of the Mars 2020 mission). This… Continue reading NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Animations

April 29, 2020 B-roll for media. NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will be the first aircraft to fly in a controlled way on another planet. It will fly to Mars attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover, part of the Mars 2020 mission. In April, the Mars helicopter was given the name Ingenuity. This reel… Continue reading NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Media Reel

April 30, 2020 NASA-JPL engineer Al Chen is no stranger to landing things on Mars. In fact, it’s sort of the family business. Both Al and his wife have had the opportunity to land spacecraft on the Red Planet. Up next, Al will be at the helm as NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover makes its entry,… Continue reading Behind the Spacecraft: Engineer Lands Spacecraft on Mars… Again

April 30, 2020 When she moved to the U.S. from Colombia, NASA-JPL engineer Diana Trujillo didn’t speak English. She paid her way through college by cleaning houses, learned English, and is now working to send her second spacecraft to the surface of Mars. TRANSCRIPT I used to clean houses and today I’m trying to find… Continue reading Behind the Spacecraft: From Columbia to Mars