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An image taken at the "Hidden Valley" site, en-route to Mount Sharp, by NASA's Curiosity rover.
Secrets of 'Hidden Valley' on Mars
This is an artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft approaching Mars.
Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist's Concept
This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows details of rock texture and color in an area where the rover's Dust Removal Tool (DRT) brushed away dust that ...
Close-up of Brushed Area on Martian Rock Target 'Ekwir_1'
This Jan. 13, 2015, view from the Mars Hand Lens Imager on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows outcomes of a mini-drill test to assess whether the "Mojave" rock is appropriate for full-depth drilling...
Results from Curiosity's Mini-Drill Test at 'Mojave'
Since landing on Mars in August 2012, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has fired the laser on its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument more than 100,000 times at rock and soil targets up to about 2...
Target for 100,000th Laser Shot by Curiosity on Mars
The Mars Descent Imager for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory took this image in October 2008.
Descent Camera Portrait of Principal Investigator
This Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) camera will fly on the Curiosity rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Mars Descent Imager for Curiosity
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Curiosity Mars in its approach to and April 1, 2014, arrival at a waypoint called "the Kimberley," which rover team scientists chose in 2013 as the locatio...
Map of Curiosity Mars Rover's Drives to 'the Kimberley' Waypoint
This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Mojave" site, where its drill collected the mission's second taste of Mount Sharp. The scene combines dozens of images ta...
Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Mojave' on Mount Sharp
This view of channels on Mars came from NASA's Mariner 9 orbiter. In 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to enter orbit around Mars.
Mariner 9 View of Nirgal Vallis
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft has been fully stacked for flight in this photograph from inside the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Mars Science Laboratory Stacked Spacecraft
This Sept. 16, 2017, image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows effects of using the rover's wire-bristled Dust Removal Tool on a rock target called "C...
Dust Removal Target on 'Vera Rubin Ridge'
Some of the women working on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project, which built and operates the Curiosity Mars rover, gathered for this photo in the Mars Yard used for rover testing at NASA's Jet...
Women of Mars, in Mars Yard at JPL
A NASA radio on Europe's Trace Gas Orbiter, which reached Mars in October 2016, has succeeded in its first test of receiving data from NASA Mars rovers, both Opportunity and Curiosity. This grap...
Strengthening the Mars Telecommunications Network
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from the location where it landed in August 2012 to its location in December 2016, which is in the upper half of a geological unit cal...
Late 2016 Map of NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Mission
Five years since it landed near Mount Sharp on Mars in August 2017 and nearly three years since reaching the base of the mountain, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is climbing toward multiple layers of ...
More to Explore in Five-Year-Old Mars Rover's Future
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians process the heat shield for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL).
Processing the Heat Shield
On June 24, 2014, NASA's Curiosity rover completes her first Martian year (687 Earth days).
Curiosity Completes Its First Martian Year
Under the watchful eyes of technicians at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an overhead crane lowers a rocket-powered descent stage over NASA's Mar...
Descent Stage Meets Rover!
This map traces where NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drove between landing at a site subsequently named "Bradbury Landing," and the position reached during the mission's 123rd Martian day, or sol, (De...
Curiosity Traverse Map, Sol 123
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, right, and Erisa Hines of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, try out the Microsoft Hololens mixed reality headset during a preview of "Destin...
"Destination: Mars" experience at the Kennedy Space Center
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has detected sulfur, chlorine, and oxygen compounds in fine grains scooped by the rover at a wind drift site called "Rocknest."
Signs of Perchlorates and Sulfur Containing Compounds
This illustration shows the instruments and subsystems of the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite on the Curiosity Rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project.
The SAM suite
NASA has selected Gale crater as the landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Gale Crater: Future Home of Mars Rover Curiosity
The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission will study chemistry of rocks, soil and air as the mission's rover, Curiosity, investigates Gale Crater on Mars.
SAM Instrument at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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155 students from across the U.S. have been chosen as semifinalists in NASA's essay contest to name the Mars 2020 rover, and see it launch from Cape Canaveral this July.
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Closer to Getting Its Name
Through Nov. 1, K-12 students in the U.S. are encouraged to enter an essay contest to name NASA's next Mars rover.
NASA Invites Students to Name Mars 2020 Rover
The rover recently drilled two samples, and both showed the highest levels of clay ever found during the mission.
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay Cache
For the first time, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has caught the Martian moon Phobos during a full moon phase. Each color in this new image represents a temperature range detected by Odyssey's infrared camera.
Why This Martian Full Moon Looks Like Candy
