Video animation of Mars Rover

August 13, 2008 Space Craft, Space Exploration, solar system, videos No Comments

<a href=mars" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" />These are 2 animations of the Mars Rover from take-off all the way to the landing and rock collecting. The first one is for the 2007 Mars landing and the second one is what the a 2009 Mars mission may look like.

Here is the description of the video:

This animation visulaizes launch in August 2007 and entry, descent, and landing of the Phoenix Mars Mission in May 2008. .. The animation was created by Maas Digital under the direction of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Solar System Visualization Project.

This is the second mars rover animation

NASA Images of space station, shuttle and Mars

February 7, 2008 Space Craft, Space Exploration, Space Shuttle, Very cool, videos No Comments

This is a description of this video that is made up of very cool space images taken from NASA

A montage of recent NASA imagery including the STS121 Shuttle launch, photos from the Spirit Rover on Mars, repairs to the International Space Station, Hubble Telescope photos of planetary nebulae, repairs to the Hubble Telescope using space walks and a robotic arm, pictures from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Messenger mission to Mercury, and NASA’s planned nuclear powered space engine to be used in exploring the moons of Jupiter.