Our Curiosity: Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Felicia Day Narrate Video About Mars Rover

By Nancy Atkinson - August 13, 2014 at 8:04 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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In honor of the 2nd anniversary of the Curiosity rover reaching Mars, Caltech has put out a wonderful new video about the plucky little rover that has captured the hearts and imaginations of people around the world. And some familiar voices do the narration: astrophysicist

Neil de Grasse Tyson

and actress

Felicia Day

. The video was created by Caltech planetary scientist Jeff Marlow, and he called it a

"love letter"

to the rover.

"As scientifically productive as the mission has been, Curiosity's inspirational capacity may be its true value, its ability to make us feel as if we too are there, crunching on red dirt, pondering the planet's past environments," Marlow wrote on

Wired.

Enjoy the look back at Curiosity's travels so far. If you're like me, the last line in the video (spoken by de Grasse Tyson) will really get you.

Find out more about the video at

ourcuriosity.org,

where they promise a "making of" video and more will be available soon.

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com