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 Destination Mars video Posted: January 1, 2004 This collection of video clips follow the launches of the European Space Agency's Mars Express and NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rover spacecraft -- Spirit and Opportunity. The missions represent an unprecedented international scientific assault on Earth's cosmic neighbor in 2003 and 2004. The movies are available for our Spaceflight Now Plus service subscribers. Get your subscription today.
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The mobile service tower is retracted from around the Boeing Delta 2 rocket at Cape Canaveral's pad 17B for the second attempt to launch Opportunity. (2min 11sec file)
The first Boeing Delta 2-Heavy rocket blasts off carrying the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity from Cape Canaveral's pad 17B on July 7 as seen live. (5min 10sec file)
Catch a ride on the Boeing Delta 2 rocket launching Opportunity in this movie from the video camera mounted on the first stage. The video starts in the final moments of the countdown and concludes as the main engine is shut down. (4min 33sec file)
A camera near the Skid Strip runway at Cape Canaveral captures the launch of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. (49sec file)
The tracking camera at Patrick Air Force Base, located south of the launch site, follows the Boeing Delta 2 rocket during its early ascent. (1min 32sec file)
A tracking camera follows the ascent of the Delta 2 rocket carrying the second Mars Exploration Rover. (1min 35sec file)
The launch of Opportunity as seen from the press site located on a bluff near the south edge of Cape Canaveral. (2min 07sec file)
NASA Launch Manager Omar Baez re-caps the countdown and the launch from the Mission Directors Center shortly after deployment of Opportunity from the Delta 2. (3min 36sec file)
Richard Brace, the deputy project manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission, provides an update on the health of Opportunity following the launch. (2min 11sec file)
This time-lapse video shot by Spaceflight Now shows the mobile service tower rolling away from the Delta 2 rocket about eight hours before liftoff time on the initial launch attempt.
Peter Theisinger, the project manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission, narrates this package of video recapping the pre-launch assembly and testing of the MER-B Opportunity spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center in 2003. (8min 09sec file)
This movie is a collection of footage showing the assembly of Boeing's three-stage Delta 2 rocket on pad 17B for the launch of Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. (4min 52sec file)
The mobile service tower is rolled away from the Boeing Delta 2 rocket at pad 17A on launch morning. (2min 19sec file)
The launch team is polled by the Boeing Launch Conductor to verify all is in readiness for the final minutes of the countdown to liftoff of the Delta 2 rocket and Spirit. (2min 41sec file)
The first Mars Exploration Rover, "Spirit", lifts off from Cape Canaveral on June 10 for a seven month voyage to the Red Planet as seen live on NASA TV. (3min 07sec file)
Catch a ride on the Boeing Delta 2 rocket launching Spirit in this movie from the video camera mounted on the first stage. The video starts in the final moments of the countdown and concludes as the spent stage begins falling back to Earth. (5min 38sec file)
The launch of the first Mars Exploration Rover, "Spirit", seen from Press Site 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (1min 28sec file)
Due to range safety concerns, the press site was moved to a bluff near the south edge of Cape Canaveral. This is the Spaceflight Now view from the site. (2min 12sec file)
The tracking camera at Patrick Air Force Base, located south of the launch site, follows the Boeing Delta 2 rocket during its early ascent. (2min 15sec file)
A camera near the Skid Strip runway at Cape Canaveral captures the launch of the first Mars Exploration Rover, "Spirit". (2min 08sec file)
A tracking camera follows the ascent of the Delta 2 rocket carrying the first Mars Exploration Rover. (2min 09sec file)
NASA Launch Manager Omar Baez re-caps the countdown and the launch from the Mission Directors Center shortly after deployment of Spirit from the Delta 2. (2min 17sec file)
Officials hold the post-launch news conference Mars Exploration Rover-A at the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, June 10. (20min 02sec file)
NASA launch commentator George Diller announces that the launch of the first Mars Exploration Rover, "Spirit", has been delayed due to the threat of severe weather on June 8. (1min 8sec file)
Richard Brace, the deputy project manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission, narrates this package of video recapping the pre-launch assembly and testing of the MER-A Spirit spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center in 2003. (6min 35sec file)
This movie is a collection of footage showing the assembly of Boeing's three-stage Delta 2 rocket on pad 17A for the launch of Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. (4min 12sec file)
Animation shows the launch of a Mars Exploration Rover aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. (2min 05sec file)
The entry, descent and landing of the Mars Exploration Rover at the Red Planet is explained in this animation. (2min 57sec file)
A Mars Exploration Rover leaves the lander and heads away from the landing site, studying the area and rocks for scientists back on Earth as shown in this animation. (3min 39sec file)
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, LEGO Senior Vice President Brad Justus, and elementary school student Sofi Collis name the space agency's twin Mars Exploration Rovers at an event held at the Kennedy Space Center. (16min 37sec file)
The science objectives of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers are explained to the press and public at a pre-flight news conference on Friday, June 6. (55min 17sec file)
Details of how NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers will get to the Red Planet and perform their missions are described at a pre-flight news conference on Friday, June 6. (51min 52sec file)
Officials hold the pre-launch news conference Mars Exploration Rover-A at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, June 7. (39min 35sec file)
The European Mars Express orbiter and Beagle 2 lander ride the Russian Soyuz rocket off the launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazkahstan. (2min 14sec file)
This close-up camera angle provides a different view of the Soyuz rocket launching with Mars Express. (20sec file)
Post-liftoff comments from professor David Southwood, director of ESA's science program. (26sec file)