NASA engineers take the Curiosity test rover to California’s Mojave desert to learn how to drive on Martian sand dunes.

Mark your calendars: the Curiosity Rover is still on target to land on Mars on August 6, 2012!

The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has created a primer on NASA’s Kepler Mission. Kepler has found over 1200 planet candidates, 54 of them in the habitable or “Goldilocks” zone. How do we see these planets from so so so so so far away? We measure light!

What to watch next: ScienceCasts: Getting to Know the Goldilocks Planet.

Why do we explore? Simply, it is part of who we are, something we’ve done throughout history. NASA’s new video, “We Are the Explorers,” looks at that tradition of reaching for things just beyond our grasp, and how it’s helping lay the foundation for our greatest journeys ahead.

It looks like NASA took Reid Gower’s good advice about how to make more inspirational videos!