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Living on Mars Time | NASA JPL Engineer Nagin Cox Shares Her Experience

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Systems Engineer Nagin Cox shares her experience of living on Martian time from Earth while working on four rover missions.
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Why Can I See the Moon During the Day?

The Moon is most well known for lighting up the night sky but sometimes you may catch a glimpse of it during the day. Learn more about the relationship between the Moon, Earth, and Sun.
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How Will We Get to Mars?

Currently, no human has travelled to Mars, or even beyond the Moon. Learn about the challenges of getting humans to Mars and maybe even how we can solve them.
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How Will We Live On Mars?

Explore the ways that scientists and engineers are starting to plan ahead for human space travel. Discover what challenges they are considering while planning for humans to visit, or even live on, the planet Mars.
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How to Design a Mars Rover!

Engineers have created several rovers to explore Mars. The goal: learn as much as possible about our neighboring planet. Explore how engineers design rovers to answer questions about Mars.
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Get Ready for Ramp Rescue: Newton's Laws

Learn about Isaac Newton's laws of motion and how they apply in space from astronauts on the International Space Station. Use this to prepare for Ramp Rescue in the Mission: Mars Roblox game and try it for yourself at http://roblox.com/mission-mars
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Get Ready for Ramp Rescue: Gravity on Mars

Here on Earth we have gravity that keeps us from floating off into space. That force is also on our neighbor Mars, and other celestial bodies. Learn about gravity on Mars to prepare for Ramp Rescue in Mission: Mars on Roblox.
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Highlights From the First-Ever Mars Livestream!

Live from Mars! The European Space Agency celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Mars Express orbiter with a first-of-its-kind live space broadcast.
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Did NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover just find the Martian Mississippi?

New findings suggest the presence of a powerful river system that once flowed through Jezero Crater.
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Studying Mars: Remote Sensing with JPL

Learn how NASA scientists study far-away objects. Scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA explain how remote sensing helps them understand Mars' topography without traveling to the planet themselves.
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Earthquakes, Moonquakes, Marsquakes, Venusquakes and More!

Take a journey through quakes across the solar system, including the strongest quake ever recorded on Mars.
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Let's Go to Mars

The Red Planet, right next to Earth, is currently only populated by rovers and other robots used to explore the planet. What would it be like for humans to travel there? Learn more about Mars and think about whether humans should go there.
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Ingenuity: Mars Helicopter

The rover aren't the only robot on Mars. Meet Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter. Learn how Ingenuity flies on Mars scoping out the terrain for our Mars rovers.
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Explaining the “Dragon Bones” NASA Curiosity Found on Mars

Did NASA’s Curiosity rover really find dragon bones on Mars? Well, no. But these awesome-looking formations are a clue to the planet’s fascinating geological history.
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Was There Water on Mars?

In the search for life on other planets, Mars has been the nearest to Earth to explore. Learn about water on Mars in the past and present and what that means for us on Earth.