Mars
Odyssey
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of western Candor Chasma. Near the bottom of the image is an impact crater. Impact craters are relatively rare within all the canyons of Valles Marineria.
January 15, 2018
This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of eastern Candor Chasma. In the middle of the image is a set of linear ridges and valleys.
January 12, 2018
This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of eastern Candor Chasma. At the top of the image is the steep cliff between the upper surface elevation and the depths of Candor Chasma.
January 11, 2018
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of eastern Candor Chasma. At the bottom of the image is the steep cliff between the upper surface elevation and the depths of Candor Chasma.
January 10, 2018
This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of western Candor and the erosion of a large mesa. Layered materials are visible throughout the image.
January 9, 2018
Candor Chasma is one of the largest canyons that make up Valles Marineris. This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of western Candor and the erosion of a large mesa.
January 8, 2018
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the southern margin of the summit caldera. This image contains a variety of features representing the major events related to the formation of the volcano.
January 5, 2018
The three large aligned Tharsis volcanoes are Arsia Mons, Pavonis Mons and Ascreaus Mons. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the southern flank of Arsia Mons, along the center of the aligned fracture system.
January 4, 2018
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the caldera floor of Arsia Mons. Arsia Mons is the southernmost of the Tharsis volcanoes. It is 270 miles in diameter, almost 12 miles high, and the summit caldera is 72 miles wide.
January 3, 2018
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the caldera floor of Arsia Mons. It is not uncommon for calderas to have 'flat' floors after the final explosive eruption that empties the subsurface magma chamber.
January 2, 2018
The three large aligned Tharsis volcanoes are Arsia Mons, Pavonis Mons and Ascreaus Mons (from south to north). This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the northeastern flank of Arsia Mons at the summit caldera.
January 1, 2018
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the southeastern flank of Arsia Mons, including the flat lying flows around the base of the volcano. These flows are located at the bottom of the image.
December 29, 2017
This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the northwestern margin of the summit caldera. This image illustrates the many processes that occurred in the formation of the volcano.
December 28, 2017
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the eastern margin of the summit caldera of Arsia Mons. The arcuate features are the faults created by collapse of summit materials.
December 27, 2017
The three large aligned Tharsis volcanoes are Arsia Mons, Pavonis Mons and Ascreaus Mons (from south to north). This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the northeastern flank of Arsia Mons.
December 26, 2017
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a portion of the western wall of the caldera, revealing the steep walls and linear features associated with the collapse that formed the caldera.
December 25, 2017
This is a false color image of Rabe Crater captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft. In this combination of filters 'blue' typically means basaltic sand. Rabe Crater is 108 km (67 miles) across.
December 22, 2017
This false color image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft crosses the entire crater and demonstrates how extensive the dunes are on the floor of Rabe Crater. In this combination of filters 'blue' typically means basaltic sand.
December 21, 2017
This is a false color image of Rabe Crater from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft. In this combination of filters 'blue' typically means basaltic sand. Rabe Crater is 108 km (67 miles) across. Craters of similar size often have flat floors.
December 20, 2017
This is a false color image of Rabe Crater captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft. In this combination of filters 'blue' typically means basaltic sand. Rabe Crater is 108 km (67 miles) across.
December 19, 2017
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows Rabe Crater. The majority of the dune field in Rabe Crater consists of a sand sheet with dune forms on the surface. The sand sheet is where a thick layer of sand has been concentrated.
December 18, 2017
This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft provides another instance where the topography of the upper floor material affects the winds and dune formation.
December 15, 2017
This image combines two products from the first pointing at the Martian moon Phobos by the THEMIS camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, on Sept. 29, 2017. Surface-temperature information from observation in thermal-infrared wavelengths is overlaid on a more detailed image from a visible-light observation.
October 4, 2017
This image of Phobos is one product of the first pointing at that Martian moon by the THEMIS camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. The Sept. 29, 2017, observation also provided information about temperatures on different areas of Phobos. The oblong moon has an average diameter of about 14 miles.
October 4, 2017
This series of images was taken in visible-wavelength light as the THEMIS camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey scanned across the Martian moon Phobos on Sept. 29, 2017. The apparent motion is due to progression of the camera's pointing during 18 seconds of observing, not from motion of Phobos.
October 4, 2017
Colors in this image of the Martian moon Phobos indicate a range of surface temperatures detected by observing the moon on Sept. 29, 2017, with the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
October 4, 2017
Re-analysis of 2002-2009 data from a hydrogen-finding instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter increased the resolution of maps of hydrogen abundance. The reprocessed data (lower map) shows more "water-equivalent hydrogen" (darker blue) in some parts of this equatorial region of Mars.
September 28, 2017
Valleys much younger than well-known ancient valley networks on Mars are evident near the informally named "Heart Lake" on Mars. This map presents color-coded topographical information overlaid onto a photo mosaic. Lower elevations are indicated with white and purple; higher elevations, yellow.
September 15, 2016
At 11:02 a.m. EDT on April 7, 2001, crowds watch a Boeing Delta II rocket lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, carrying NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft into space on its seven-month journey to Mars.
April 5, 2016
Morning clouds fill Coprates Chasma on Mars in this Nov. 25, 2015, image from the THEMIS camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey. No orbiter systematically observed Mars in morning sunlight before 2015. The clouds appear blue because ice particles in them scatter blue light more strongly than other colors.
April 5, 2016
Buzz Aldrin, an Apollo 11 astronaut who walked on the moon, makes a holographic appearance in 'Destination: Mars,' a mixed-reality tour of a part of Mars that NASA's Curiosity rover has explored.
March 30, 2016
This map shows unprecedented detail of local variations in Mars' gravitational pull on orbiters. The gravitational mapping has been applied to map variations in the thickness of the planet's crust and to deduce information about its deeper interior.
March 21, 2016
Newly detailed mapping of local variations in Mars' gravitational pull on orbiters (center), combined with topographical mapping of the planet's mountains and valleys (left), yields the best-yet mapping of Mars' crustal thickness (right).
March 21, 2016
Women working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pose for a photo in mission control in honor of Women in Science Day.
February 12, 2016
This view combines information from two instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to map color-coded composition over the shape of the ground in a small portion of the Nili Fossae plains region of Mars' northern hemisphere.
September 2, 2015
Researchers estimating the amount of carbon held in the ground at the largest known carbonate-containing deposit on Mars utilized data from three different NASA Mars orbiters.
September 2, 2015
Researchers estimating the amount of carbon held in the ground at the largest known carbonate-containing deposit on Mars utilized data from three different NASA Mars orbiters.
September 2, 2015
NASA is advancing the Journey to Mars by starting the conversation about where humans may one day land on the Red Planet.
June 29, 2015
Gale Crater, home to NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, shows a new face in this image made using data from the THEMIS camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
June 19, 2015
Seen shortly after local Martian sunrise, clouds gather in the summit pit, or caldera, of Pavonis Mons, a giant volcano on Mars, in this image from the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
June 19, 2015
This graphic depicts the relative shapes and distances from Mars for five active orbiter missions plus the planet's two natural satellites. It illustrates the potential for intersections of the spacecraft orbits.
May 4, 2015
This artist's concept shows NASA's Mars orbiters lining up behind the Red Planet for their "duck and cover" maneuver to shield them fro comet dust that may result from the close flyby of comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1) on Oct. 19, 2014. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
October 19, 2014
Artist's concept of Comet Siding Spring approaching Mars, shown with NASA's orbiters preparing to make science observations of this unique encounter.
October 19, 2014
NASA's NEOWISE mission detected comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring on July 28, 2014, less than three months before this comet's close flyby of Mars on Oct. 19. This merging of multiple images presents the comet in four different positions relative to the background stars.
August 7, 2014
Artist rendering of commercial Mars satellites providing communications back to Earth.
July 23, 2014
A small impact crater on Mars named Gratteri, 4.3 miles (6.9 km) wide, lies at the center of large dark streaks.
July 15, 2014
No NASA Mars orbiter has been in a position to observe morning daylight on Mars since the twin Viking orbiters of the 1970s.
February 12, 2014
Antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network provide two-way communications with spacecraft exploring the planets.
December 18, 2013
Goldstone's 230-foot (70-m) antenna tracks under a full moon. This photograph was taken on Jan. 11, 2012.
December 18, 2013
Late night in the desert: Goldstone's 230-foot (70-meter) antenna tracks spacecraft day and night. This photograph was taken on Jan. 11, 2012.
December 18, 2013
