Planetary

When you take a look at Mars, you probably wouldn't think that it looks like a very nice place to live: it's dry, it's dusty, and there's practically no atmosphere. But...

When you look at Mars today, it appears to be a barren, dusty world with only a very thin atmosphere. However, some scientists think that Mars may have once had a much thicker atmosphere, maybe even...

Even though it's not obvious just by looking at it, scientists think that Mars, a dry, dusty planet, may have once looked at lot more like Earth, with a blue atmosphere, thick clouds, and...

Music Jane Houston Jones: What's Up for March. View Mars at opposition and planet highlights galore. Hello and welcome. I'm Jane Houston Jones at NASA's Jet Propulsion...

Music. Jane Houston Jones: What's Up for May? Planetary line-ups at dawn! Hello and welcome. I'm Jane Houston Jones at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California....

Planetary Science 2014 – Part 3 We have been fascinated with Jupiter’s moon Europa since the Voyagers observed them in the late 70’s and 80’s. This first image from Europa was surprising as it has...

Planetary Science 2014 – Part 6 In concentrating on the history and evolution of features and landforms that are formed and/or evolved due to the movement of water, look for the types of...

Planetary Nebula Survey Narrator (April Hobart, CXC): A planetary nebula is a phase of stellar evolution that the sun should experience several billion years from now, when it expands to become a red...

Narrator: NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered the first system of multiple planets orbiting a pair of stars, or as astronomers call it, a circumbinary system. Located in the constellation of...

Thank you, very much. It's the Oxford Martin School, which is a group of about 350 people working on the biggest challenges of the future. And what I'd like to share with you is some...