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Here you will find all the latest really cool videos. Remember these links change all the time - so keep coming back for more!

 

*New* What happens when a comet gets too close to the Sun? Click here to find out!

See some animations from NASA's Mercury MESSENGER mission on the official MESSENGER website: Mercury MESSENGER animations.

Some of the sights seen by the space missions to Mars are just amazing, and NASA have turned them into animations based on what the space missions have seen. For example, in this simulation you can fly into the great Valles Marineris, the deepest canyon on Mars, which is over 4,000 kilometres long and up to ten kilometres deep – much, much bigger than the Grand Canyon!

Fly through Mars' great valley.

The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is, right now, driving into a huge 800-metre wide crater called Victoria to explore it. Based on real observations made by Opportunity and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter high above Mars, this animation takes you flying high over the crater, before swooping down past Opportunity and into Victoria, rushing low over the sand dunes that lie in the crater floor: Victoria Crater.

You can also see dust devils racing across the Martian surface.

There is a great selection of video podcasts on the Hubble Space Telescope website. If you want to know how Hubble takes those amazing pictures and the stupendous discoveries that it makes, this podcast will tell you all you need to know: Hubble podcast.

NASA have some really cool videos on their website, including a stunning video showing what manned spaceflight to the Moon may be like in the future, and the blast-off of a space shuttle! You can check them out here: NASA videos.

You can also watch space shuttle and rocket launches live, as well as watch live footage of astronauts in space, on NASA's own TV channel, NASA TV.

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