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Astronauts. Thermal Blanket Technicians. Planetary Protection Officers. In our Women’s History Month podcast episode playlist, meet some of the women who are making a difference at NASA.

Women at NASA: Celebrating Women's History Month

NASA’s technical workforce put boots on the Moon, tire tracks on Mars, and the first reusable spacecraft in orbit around the Earth. Learn what’s next as they build missions that redefine the future with amazing discoveries and remarkable innovations.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps Podcast

“In some ways, spaceflight changes you forever,” says Ken Bowersox. Since he was 7 years old, Ken knew he wanted to become an astronaut. In his astronaut career, he participated in many exciting missions, including an extended stay on the International Space Station. What did he eat? How did he feel when he came home? Now a leader in NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, Ken currently works on plans for sending astronauts to the Moon through the Artemis program, with an eventual goal of Mars.

Gravity Assist: Always an Astronaut, with Ken Bowersox

On Episode 195, NASA’s International Space Station program manager Joel Montalbano gathers with leaders from partner space agencies during a panel to discuss the importance and evolution of the international partnership and collaboration that has enabled more than 20 years of continuous human presence aboard the orbiting laboratory.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Trailblazing International Partnerships

Today we're telling tales that push life to the ultimate limit. We're bringing things back from the dead, diving into the mysteries of immortality and asking just how much can the human body take? We talk to Rohan Schoeman, Dr. Eduard Argudo, Audrey Mash, Prof. Ferdinando Boero, Prof. Shin Kubota, Dr. Moiya McTier, and Prof. David Howard.


UPDATE 5/17/21: An earlier version of this episode said that Nesyamun was scanned using MRI. While David has used MRI to scan vocal tracts in his research, Nesyamun’s vocal tract was imaged using a CT scan.



Check out the transcript here: https://bit.ly/33NVcF7



Credits: This episode was produced by Meryl Horn, Rose Rimler, Michelle Dang, Nick DelRose, and Wendy Zukerman, with help from Taylor White. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell and Caitlin Kenney. Fact checking by Eva Dasher. Translation by Ben Milam, Kana Hatakeyama, and Bumi Hidaka. Mix and sound design by Bumi Hidaka. Music written by Bumi Hidaka, Peter Leonard, Bobby Lord, Marcus Bagala, Emma Munger and So Wylie. And special thanks to all the researchers we talked to for this episode, including Dr. Jordi Riera, Professor Lars J Bjertnæs, Dr. Peter Paal, Dr. Herman Brugger, Prof. Maria Pia Miglietta, and Dr. Jenna Valley. And a big thanks to Sinduja Srinivasan, Katie Cruickshank, Jessica Mack, the Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson.

Science Vs

Back From the Dead

Season four launches with Jennifer Trosper in the driver’s seat. As she looks in the rearview mirror at twenty-five years of exploring with NASA’s Mars rovers, she reveals how their progression has kept pace with milestones in her life.

On a Mission: Season 4, Episode 1: Driven To Mars

Climate change is one of the most important issues facing our planet, and NASA has lots of space missions and programs in the works to monitor and understand its drivers and effects. Kate Calvin, NASA’s new chief scientist, is also the agency’s senior climate advisor. In this episode, Kate previews  upcoming Earth science missions and discusses cutting-edge research endeavors to explore climate change.

Gravity Assist: Meet NASA’s New Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor, with Kate Calvin

From dusty deserts to icy mountain tops, NASA experts visit incredible places along their career path. But what about our explorers who take their work off the Earth?  Join astronaut Shannon Walker on a look back at her excursions into space.

NASA's Curious Universe: Field Notes: Astronaut Shannon Walker

Deep in a side canyon in the American desert, the modern world seems far removed.

3 minute audio sample from the 77 minute nature sound album; "Canyonlands", available for download from http://www.listeningearth.com/LE/p-127-american-soundscapes-canyonlands

Deep in a side canyon in the American desert, the modern world seems far removed.

Massive rock walls tower above, and the dry canyon floor descends over rocky escarpments toward the main valley, from where a distant rush of water can faintly be heard.

The song of the Canyon Wren is distinctive of this landscape, a falling cascade of notes amplified in reverberation off the hard rocks. It is spring, and despite the arid surroundings, birdlife abounds; warblers, vireos, ravens, towhees, sparrows and finches can all be heard singing. Hummingbirds flit within inches, and perform their unique songflights overhead.

Canyonlands, An American Soundscape - Album sample

NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy discusses NASA's positive impact on humanity—and the people who make it happen.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 100: NASA’s Extraordinary Workforce

NASA Human Spaceflight Historian Jennifer Ross-Nazzal discusses how careers for women have changed over the past 50 years as the workforce has become more diverse.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 103: Legacy of Inspiration

The melodious song of a Blackcap is heard in a glade of Birch woodland in Sweden

'Birch Wood' - album sample

Solfeggio frequencies recorded on the morning of the winter solstice copyright Tai Inoue at Nature Sounds 2011 

Windy Winter Solstice - Lakefield National Park, Cape York

♫ AHOY & WELCOME, to SEASIDETRIP No. 53 by http://soundcloud.com/san-miguel-berlin 

Da feiert der Junge das ganze Osterwochenende durch und lädt dann zum Ausklang auch noch auf unser Oberdeck, zum gemeinsamen Rausch-Ausklang. Es ist einfach wunderbar, wie er die Wellen zum klingen bringt und somit unsere müde-gefeierte Meute bei 108 bpm in die Sonne lockt. Wer seinen Sound hört, der spürt sofort, der Junge hat Tiefgang und bringt die nötige Portion Liebe (zur Musik) mit. Da kann euer Käpt’n auch nicht anders und überlässt somit San Miguel die schiffshornmäßige Soundanlage. Und da wir bekanntlich Frühlingsgefühle entwickeln, werden die wankelmutigen Planken bunt eingefärbt, denn es ist Einfach Liebe, die uns Phonetiker zusammengebracht hat. Mit viel Feingefühl schraubt sich das Tempo im Laufe unserer Fahrt auf 118 Knoten hoch und wir spüren den frischen Wind im Gesicht. Der »colorful phonetic soundwaves« - Mix nimmt euch mit, sackt euch ein und bietet euch strictly Berliner DeepHouse .. Also, volle Kraft voraus, denn wir haben noch viel vor!

cheerio, your captain http://soundcloud.com/rolandson

♫ Info:
★ Date: 2015-04-06
★ Interpret: San Miguel
★ Titel: Seasidetrip 53 - colorful phonetic soundwaves

♫ Seasidetrip web:
★ hearthis - www.hearthis.at/seasidetrip
★ facebook - www.facebook.com/podcastseasidetrip
★ soundcloud - www.soundcloud.com/rolandsons-seasidetrip

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Seasidetrip 53 by San Miguel - Colorful Phonetic Soundwaves

♫ AHOY & WELCOME, to SEASIDETRIP No. 56 by RS63

Du kannst einen Tropfen Wasser vor dem austrocknen retten, indem du ihn ins Wasser zurückgibst - alles hat seinen Ursprung, seinen ganz eigenen Sinn - der Tropfen, welcher vom Himmel fällt und in der Erde verdunstet, Bäche & Flüsse speist - ein Bach, der einem Felsen entspringt und zu einem Fluss wird, um sich letztendlich in’s Meer zu ergießen. Werden und Sein, Alles und Nichts! Damit beschäftigt sich heuer euer philosophischer Käpt’n Rolandson. Warum? - Weil da zwei Jungs aus Berlin angeheuert haben, welche der Meinung sind, sie versuchen sich an Smetana seiner Moldau und interpretieren sie nach ihrem dafürhalten. 

Well Well, da stopft sich der Käpt’n sein Pfeifchen und macht es sich in seiner Hängematte gemütlich. Derweil mixen https://soundcloud.com/rs63 die liebreizenden Melodien, zu wundervoll dahin plätschernden Klangwellen und lassen sie hin und wieder aufbrausen. So wogen die Wellen hin und her und treiben uns immer weiter auf das Meer, wobei - die Moldau mündet in die Elbe und diese mündet dann in’s Meer - öhm naja, der Kompass zeigt gen Norden und wir überlassen es euch, wohin ihr euch träumt - Hauptsache ihr seid dabei und lasst euch treiben und gebt euch hin.  

cheerio, Käpt’n https://www.soundcloud.com/rolandson

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da hat der Schusselkopf vom Käpt'n doch fast vergessen, die 12 wichtigen Punkte der Neu-Interpretation darzulegen und der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen - Feingeister, die wir rauhen Seebären numal auch sein können - BITTE sehr - RS63 und ihr 12 Punkte-Plan ;)

1. Die zwei Quellflüsse entspringen in einer Höhle im Felsgestein und fließen an Tageslicht.
2. Die Quellflüsse stoßen aufeinander und vereinen sich zu einem kleinen Fluss.
3. Nun bahnt er sich seinen Weg, als ein kleiner kräftiger Strom, durch den Wald.
4. Dieser kleine Strom trifft nun auf einen riesigen 48 Kilometer langen Stausee.
5. Danach verlässt er diesen und durchfließt schmale Auen und Hohe Steinhänge, begleitet von dichtem Wald an den Ufern.
6. Durch den Wald geflossen, kommt er nun zu einem sehr windungsreichen Teil seiner Strecke. 
7. Erneut trifft er auf einen weiteren großen Stausee, der ihn in seiner Geschwindigkeit etwas ausbremst.
8. Durch die Straken Stromschnellen am Ausgang des Stausees, nimmt er wieder Fahrt auf.
9. Der Fluss wird breiter und umfließt eine Insel auf dem Majestätisch ein Kloster sich empor streckt.
10. Die Moldau erreich Prag und fließ durch sie hindurch.
11. Es folgen wieder steile Hänge und der Fluss wird sehr groß und breit.
12. Die Moldau vereint sich in einem furiosen Finale mit der Elbe.

Info:
Date: 2015-05-17
Interpret: RS63
Titel: Seasidetrip 56 - down the river to the sea

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RS63

Seasidetrp 56 by RS63 - down the river to the sea

IXPE, or the Infrared X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, is NASA’s first space telescope dedicated to studying X-ray polarization from extreme objects like black holes and quasars.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 156: A New Era of X-ray Astronomy with IXPE

♫ JAaaaaaa, der Sommer kann kommen - Wir haben den Sound und Petrus schenkt uns die nächsten Tage gaaaanz viel Sonne und warme Temperaturen. Damit ihr auch nachts durch die Straßen tänzeln und groovig beim Reisen mitwippen könnt oder mit einem entzückenden Lächeln, am Ufer der Saale, eure Zeit verbummelt könnt, schenken wir euch einen neuen Mix.  Von Wien nach Halle, das bedeutet »Reisedrang« und ein Album, um genau zu sein, das ERSTE von unseren beiden Podcast’lern soundcloud.com/pischingerdermota . Den Longplayer haben sie erst vor ein paar Tagen veröffentlicht und den ein oder anderen Track davon haben sie in ihrem »Der Sommer kann kommen« - Mix eingebaut. Also, REINHÖREN ist ein Muss und der Rest ergibt sich von allein. Viel Spaß und blauen Himmel, eure Herzens-Crew!

♫ Info:
★ Date: 2015-06-25
★ Interpret: Pischinger & Dermota
★ Titel: Herzensangelegenheit Podcast 2015/ 11 - Der Sommer kann kommen

♫ Herzensangelegenheit im web:
★ homepage - www.herzensangelegenheit.net
★ hearthis - www.hearthis.at/herzensangelegenheit/
★ facebook - www.facebook.com/herzensangelegenheit.net
★ soundcloud - www.soundcloud.com/herzensangelegenheit-net
★ instagramm - www.instagram.com/1ne_herzensangelegenheit/

♫ Pischinger & Dermota im web:
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★ facebook - www.facebook.com/PischingerDermota

♫ 35 Grad im web:
★ webseite - http://www.35grad.at/
★ soundcloud - soundcloud.com/35-grad

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Podcast 2015/ 11 - Der Sommer Kann Kommen by Pischinger & Dermota

Fighting wildland fires by air at night is especially hazardous. NASA’s ACERO Project aims to make firefighting safer – day or night – with drones and smarter airspace management.

As wildland fires grow more intense and unpredictable, NASA is helping first responders gain the upper hand. In this episode, we explore the ACERO Project, the team developing an airspace management system to enable drones and other aircraft to safely monitor and suppress wildland fires 24 hours a day. The system will increase aerial response capabilities for responders during low-visibility conditions in a way that is not currently possible. Firefighters in California are already using this technology. We speak with Patrick Hill, chief of uncrewed aircraft systems training at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 157: Fighting Wildland Fires with Drones

The Hubble Space Telescope has changed humanity’s understanding of the universe. Now in orbit for 35 years, it remains a remarkable feat of engineering.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 159: Hubble: An Engineering Marvel

NASA’s StarBurst mission, a satellite about the size of a washing machine, is set to launch in 2027 to detect the initial blasts of these cosmic fireworks. By studying gamma-ray bursts in unprecedented detail, StarBurst will help scientists probe the extreme physics of neutron star collisions and shed light on one of the most powerful events in astrophysics. We’re talking about it today with Dr. Dan Kocevski, principal investigator for StarBurst, out of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 160: StarBurst: Gamma-ray Hunter

From black holes to star clusters, NASA is turning space data into audible sounds with a process called sonification. Dr. Kimberly Arcand, visual scientist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, joins us to explore how data sonification lets more people experience the cosmos and give researchers a new way to interpret science one note at a time. 

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 160: Turning Space Data Into Sound

♫ Read more ♫:
http://www.deephouseamsterdam.com/mix-176-by-of-norway/

*tracklist in the article:

The latest edition to our mix series is a warm and chilling house mixtape by a hot rising duo: Of Norway. Stylistically fluent and filled with still unreleased tracks, as well as some favourites, this mix come as a sublime treat we are happy to share.
Even if you have never even considered going to Norway, let alone getting lost in its forests, now you will know how it feels. Or, at least, what sound it would entail, according to the Norwegian duo Vegard Wolf Dyvik and Carl Christian Steenstrup.
Recognised by most for their nordic tale “Spirit Lights”, a melodic track filled with the tender female vocals of Linnea Dale, which was released on their latest album “Accretion”. Which, by the way, is a great name for an album, since, according to wikipedia, which just covered my knowledge gap in physics, means “the formation particles into one material through gravity”. The album was released almost half a year ago and it took only half a year more to come with a brand new collection “Accretion Remixed” of more upbeat remixes, done by Adriatique, Lehar, Terje Saether out of many and which was released just this weekend.

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Of Norway - DHA Mixtape #176

Seasidetrip 74 - northern lights at fjordfest - Lotte Ahoi

Es ist ja nun auch kein Geheimnis mehr, das Käpt’n https://soundcloud.com/rolandson aus dem Norden kommt und eine Vorliebe für Skandinavien hat. Bei all seinen Reisen geht es um Musik und den Einklang mit sich selbst und der Natur, da bieten die skandinavischen Ur-/ Töne und Naturphänomene genügend Inspiration. Eines dieser Phänomene ist das Polarlicht, auch Nordlicht genannt, welches uns immer wieder wundervolle Lichtspiele an den nächtlichen Himmel zaubert. 

Das eine Nordlicht flimmert am Himmel, andere Nordlichter wiederum reisen durch das Universum, um selbiges mit ihrer Musik zu bereichern und die Lebewesen damit zu verzücken. Mal abgesehen von eurem Käpt'n gibt es da beispielsweise die https://soundcloud.com/lotte-ahoi (Urban Cosmonaut Radio), welche sich ein Herz fasste, ihren Heimathafen verließ und aktuell durch Südamerika streunert. 

In 2015 trafen wir uns das erste Mal heimLICH in einem Garten in Heidelberg und seitdem haben wir das ein oder andere Getränk geleert, zusammen das Kraut der Halblinge in Rauchkringel aufgehen lassen und gemeinsam zum Tanze aufgespielt. So unter anderem auch beim Fjord Fest - ein Open Air in den Weinbergen südlich der Republik und nah an der franz. Grenze. Dort kamen Freunde_Innen aus Norwegen, Schweden, Deutschland und Frankreich zusammen, verlebten 3 wundervolle Tage und sponnen so manches musikalisches Seemannsgarn. Aus eben diesem fjord'schen Seemannsgarn ist die heutige Folge ersonnen . . . und da euer Käpt'n vor 5 Tagen Geburtstag hatte und die Lotte Ahoi genau heute den Ihrigen feiert, da wünschten und dachten wir uns so: Wir schenken euch 1 Stunde und 28 Minuten Fjord Fest Musik. So erhebt eure Getränke, lacht, liebt, höret und tanzet und habt Spaß - skøl!

Info
Interpret: Lotte Ahoi
Titel: Seasidetrip 74 - northern lights at fjordfest
Album: Rolandsons Seasidetrip 2016

Lotte Ahoi:
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facebook - www.facebook.com/ahoilotte/

Urban Cosmonaut Radio
soundcloud - www.soundcloud.com/urbancosmonautradio
facebook - www.facebook.com/urbancosmonautradio

Seasidetrip web:
hearthis - www.hearthis.at/seasidetrip
facebook - www.facebook.com/seasidetrip.series/
soundcloud - @rolandsons-seasidetrip

Lotte Ahoi

Seasidetrip 74 - northern lights at fjordfest by Lotte Ahoi

The Stanford Experimental Physics Lab sonified data from the European Space Agency and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). This humming sound captures the Sun’s natural vibrations and provides scientists with a concrete representation of its dynamic movements.

For more solar sounds, visit: http://soi.stanford.edu/results/sounds.html

Sun Sonification

This audio illustrates a seismic event detected by NASA's InSight spacecraft on April 6, 2019, the 128th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Three distinct kinds of sounds can be heard, all of them detected as ground vibrations by the spacecraft's seismometer, called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS): There's noise from Martian wind; the seismic event itself; and the spacecraft's robotic arm as it moves to take pictures. News release: https://go.nasa.gov/2VmCkdS
 
This event is the first likely marsquake recorded by the InSight team. Several other seismic events have been recorded but are much more ambiguous than this signal.
 
The audio underscores just how seismically noisy the Martian surface can be and was produced from two sets of sensors included with SEIS. You can hear sounds from the Very Broad Band sensors from your left speakers and sounds from the Short Period sensors from your right speakers. Audio from both sets of sensors have been sped up by a factor of 60; the actual vibrations on Mars would not have been audible to the human ear. Playback on headphones or speaker system recommended for best experience.

First Likely Marsquake Heard by NASA's InSight

A recording of a magnitude 3.7 marsquake from InSight's seismometer, called SEIS. This quake was recorded on May 22, 2019 (the 173rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission). Far below the human range of hearing, this sonification from SEIS had to be sped up and slightly processed to be audible through headphones.

Quake Sol 173

A recording of "dinks and donks," strange sounds created by friction inside of InSight's seismometer, called SEIS. Scientists aren't entirely sure what causes each of these sounds, by they are created by parts inside the seismometer contracting as they cool down, especially during sunset. These were recorded on just after sundown on July 16, 2019 (Sol 226).

InSight Dinks And Donks Sample

On Episode 147, Jason Derleth, Program Executive for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington, breaks down concepts near science fiction and explains how some find their way into how we plan for missions to deep space on this second episode of our Mars Monthly series, where we drop a new episode about a human mission to Mars on the first Friday of every month.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Concepts Near Science Fiction

On Episode 151, Patrick Chai, aerospace engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, covers the challenges and needs for getting humans to Mars and the options for propulsion, duration, time, staging, and more that will be considered on this third episode of our Mars Monthly series, where we drop a new episode about a human mission to mars on the first Friday of every month. This episode was recorded on February 4, 2020.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Rendezvous with Mars

On Episode 153, Luther Beegle, Deputy Division Manager for Science at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, takes us through the history of previous landers we have sent to Mars and highlights Perseverance, the most sophisticated rover NASA has ever sent to the Red Planet.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Perseverance

We’re going to Mars! NASA’s Perseverance rover will head to Mars this summer to search for signs of ancient life. Christina Hernandez and Mitch Schulte tell us all about Mars Perseverance in this special edition episode of NASA’s Curious Universe.

NASA's Curious Universe: Inside Our Mars Perseverance Mission

On Episode 160, Chel Stromgren, chief scientist of Binera, Inc. and part of NASA’s Mars Integration Group, lays out the complexities and the innovative strategies needed to pack for a human mission to Mars on this fifth episode of our Mars Monthly series, where we drop a new episode about a human mission to Mars on the first Friday of every month.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Packing For Mars

Data for the 60-second audio file was collected on Oct. 19, 2020, during an in-flight checkout of the Perseverance rover's camera and microphone system on the journey to Mars. The subdued whirring is from the rover's heat rejection fluid pump.

Audio Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DPA

Perseverance Rover's Interplanetary Sounds

David Gruel, assembly, testing, and launch operations manager and lead for the EDL camera and microphone at JPL, explains what sounds the microphone may pick up as the Perseverance rover lands on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.

“So the first things we’re going to hear is we’re going to hear the sound of the pyrotechnic device that fires to release the parachute. And so we’ll continue to hear these pyrotechnic devices that go off throughout the entry, descent, and landing sequence, indicating cables getting cut, bolts being cut, things of that nature. Eventually we’re going to hear the engines that are on the descent stage actually kick up and roar to life. We’re probably going to also hear lots of wind noise as the vehicle comes down through the atmosphere. And then I think one of the most interesting things we’re going to capture is that when the vehicle actually touches down on the surface itself, it’s very likely that we’re going to hear the wheels crunch down onto the Martian surface. And as soon as that happens, the descent stage cables are cut away, and the descent stage flies off into the distance, so you’re going to hear the roar of those engines, probably start off rather loud and get quieter as it quickly disappears into the distance.”

About the Sounds of Perseverance's Mars Landing

Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Deputy Project Scientist Katie Stack Morgan discusses science objectives of NASA’s first astrobiology-focused mission to the Red Planet.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps - Mars Perseverance Rover Science

The rocket ranch welcomes Dr. Moogega Cooper, NASA JPL's planetary protection lead for Mars Perseverance. She'll tell us how she and her team are actually protecting Mars and she'll describe the incredibly complex maneuvers needed to land on the red planet. Plus, she'll tell us about the most exciting parts of its astrobiology mission.

Perseverance Rover: Rapid Disassembly, Martian Mission, and Beyond

Satellites in orbit share near-Earth space with millions of fast-moving and dangerous debris objects. Tim Flohrer, Head of ESA's Space Debris Office, and Nathalie Ricard, Scientific Officer at the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), discuss the scale of the debris problem, asking what are our satellites are up against?

While you listen, check out the corresponding ESA-UN infographic that illustrates this topic: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/02/Satellites_vs_Debris

ESA & UNOOSA on: Satellites vs space debris

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Chief Engineer Bob Balaram discusses the first experimental aircraft flight on another planet.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps - Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

What does it take to drive a rover that’s more than 100 million miles away? Sophia Mitchell at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been driving the Mars Curiosity rover since 2018. In addition to her science and engineering background, Mitchell is also an avid hiker and pilot, and explains how she combines all of these interests and skills in her job. Curiosity landed on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and sends back images and other science data from Mount Sharp in Gale Crater. On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover will land on Mars at Jezero Crater. Mitchell also explains how these craters are different and why she’s excited to have a second rover exploring the Red Planet.

Gravity Assist

Gravity Assist: Driving on Mars, with Rover Driver Sophia Mitchell

On Episode 182, Chloe Sackier, entry, descent, and landing communications systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, illustrates the shortest and most intense phase of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission.

Houston We Have a Podcast: Mars Perseverance Landing

Hello, we’re NASA. You may have seen our astronauts, rocket launches, or Mars rovers — but have you heard our sounds? From interviews with astronauts and engineers to stories that take you on a tour of the galaxy, NASA’s audio offerings let you experience the thrill of space exploration without ever leaving Earth.