Videos from Mars Lander on iTunes

William Atkins
Monday, 16 June 2008 23:30

Science - Space

Video clips of the NASA Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft are viewable on iTunes U.

Watch the spacecraft scoop up Martian soil, drop it into a heat-and-sniff oven, and take images of the environment near its northern arctic location on the planet Mars.

Keep up with the entire mission, and other NASA missions, as we explore the solar system.

The iPod, ITunes, and other devices will pick up these NASA videos for later playbacks.

The Phoenix News Times report, “Now you can watch the Mars Mission discoveries directly from your iPod, iPhone or whatever other playback device Apple will stuck an "i" in front of release five minutes after you buy the obsolete model."

Starting early in June 2008, the University of Arizona team heading the Phoenix Lander mission provided many freely-downloadable video clips to iTunes U.

iTunes U provides educational videos and podcasts from NASA, research laboratories, universities and educational televisions stations. Many fun and interesting videos are available to be downloaded including the Earth launch and the Mars landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander mission.

Several lectures by members of the science team are also available on various aspects of the Mars mission, including the mission’s principal investigator, Peter Smith.

As the iTunes U website states, “Transforming learning on campus, off campus, and where there’s no campus at all.”

And, it states, “iTunes U puts the power of the iTunes Store to work for colleges and universities, so users can easily search, download, and play course content just like they do music, movies, and TV shows.”