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March 20, 2012

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This false-color animation simulates a fly-around look at one of the places on Mars where dark streaks advance down slopes during warm seasons, possibly involving liquid water or brine. This site i...
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This false-color animation simulates a fly-around look at one of the places on Mars where dark streaks advance down slopes during warm seasons, possibly involving liquid water or brine. This site is within Hale Crater. The streaks are roughly the length of a football field.
Animation of Site of Seasonal Flows in Hale Crater, Mars
This map of the region around NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the relative locations of several craters and the rover in May 2010.
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Opportunity Rover Amid Mars Craters
Opportunity Amid Mars Craters
Ancient floods carved Kasei Valles
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Ancient floods carved Kasei Valles
Kasei Channels
This image is located within Northern Sinus Meridiani, a region of ridged terrains and extensive stratigraphic layering. 
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This image is located within Northern Sinus Meridiani, a region of ridged terrains and extensive stratigraphic layering.
Crater with Surrounding Bench in Sinus Meridiani (3-D)
This view taken from orbit around Mars shows the sand dune that will be the first to be visited by NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover along its route to higher layers of Mount Sharp.
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This view taken from orbit around Mars shows the sand dune that will be the first to be visited by NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover along its route to higher layers of Mount Sharp.
Orbital View of Dune That Curiosity Will Visit
This back and forth comparison shows changes that occurred in a gully on a south-facing slope in middle southern latitudes of Mars.
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This back and forth comparison shows changes that occurred in a gully on a south-facing slope in middle southern latitudes of Mars.
Changes in a Gully in a Mars Crater (Two-Image Comparison)
These two images taken by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) show Mars' two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, as seen from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's low orbit ar...
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These two images show Mars' two small moons, Phobos and Deimos in color. Phobos is the bigger moon and it is at the top, while Deimos is the smaller moon and is at the bottom. Both are odd, potato-shaped.
CRISM Views Phobos and Deimos
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and tracks from its driving are visible in this view from orbit, acquired on April 11, 2014, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's ...
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and tracks from its driving are visible in this view from orbit, acquired on April 11, 2014, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Curiosity and Rover Tracks at 'the Kimberley,' April 2014
A new map of Mars' gravity made with three NASA spacecraft is the most detailed to date, providing a revealing glimpse into the hidden interior of the Red Planet. Satellites always orbit a planet's...
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Mars Gravity Map
Mars Gravity Map
This impact crater has gullies incised into its walls on the north and eastern sides. A couple of gullies on the north wall are unusual because a segment in the middle becomes wider than the upslop...
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This impact crater has gullies incised into its walls on the north and eastern sides.
Gullies with Varied Shapes on a Crater Wall (3-D)
This HiRISE image shows a group of cones, shield-like features, and round mounds.
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This HiRISE image shows a group of cones, shield-like features, and round mounds.
Small Mounds in Chryse Planitia (3-D)
This graphic shows Martian atmospheric temperature data related to seasonal patterns in occurrence of large regional dust storms.
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This graphic shows Martian atmospheric temperature data related to seasonal patterns in occurrence of large regional dust storms. The data shown here were collected by the Mars Climate Sounder instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter over the course of one-half of a Martian year, during 2012 and 2013.
Seasonal Temperature Pattern Indicating Martian Dust Storms
This picture of a heart-shaped feature in Arabia Terra on Mars was taken on May 23, 2010, by the Context Camera (CTX) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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This picture of a heart-shaped feature in Arabia Terra on Mars was taken on May 23, 2010, by the Context Camera (CTX) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Heart-shaped Feature in Arabia Terra (Wide View)
Polar Layered Deposits Stratigraphy Near Chasma Australe
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Polar Layered Deposits Stratigraphy Near Chasma Australe
Polar Layered Deposits Stratigraphy Near Chasma Australe
This sequence of seven images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows wind-caused changes in the parachute of NASA's Mars Sci...
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This sequence of seven images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows wind-caused changes in the parachute of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft as the chute lay on the Martian ground during months after its use in safe landing of the Curiosity rover.
Curiosity's Parachute Flapping in the Wind
Crater Floor Deposits in Promethei Terra
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Crater Floor Deposits in Promethei Terra
Crater Floor Deposits in Promethei Terra
Several types of downhill flow features have been observed on Mars. This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is an exampl...
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Several types of downhill flow features have been observed on Mars. This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is an example of a type called "linear gullies."
Linear Gullies Inside Russell Crater, Mars
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 ont...
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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.
Landscape of Former Lakes and Streams on Northern Mars
This global map of Mars was acquired on July 31, 2012, by the Mars Color Imager instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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This global map of Mars was acquired on July 31, 2012, by the Mars Color Imager instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Mars Weather Map, July 31
This image, acquired on May 15, 2018, by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows relatively bright mounds scattered throughout darker and diverse surfaces in Chryse Planitia.
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This image shows relatively bright mounds, hundreds of meters in size, scattered throughout darker and diverse surfaces in Chryse Planitia. The largest shows a central pit, similar to the collapsed craters in some Earth volcanoes.
Pitted Cones: Possible Methane Sources?
The smaller, narrow ridges oriented vertically are yardangs, which are created by wind erosion; the wind strips away the surrounding terrain, and the ridges remain because they contain more hardene...
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The smaller, narrow ridges oriented vertically are yardangs
Meanders and Tributaries in Ridge Form in the Zephyria Region (3-D)
Although the season is late spring, carbon dioxide ice still covers much of the surface at this high latitude site.
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Although the season is late spring, carbon dioxide ice still covers much of the surface at this high latitude site.
Icy Wonderland
The South Polar residual cap (the part that lasts through the summer) is composed of carbon dioxide ice.
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The South Polar residual cap of Mars.
Honey, I Shrunk the Mesas
This image show a fan-shaped deposit where a channel enters a crater. This suggests that water once flowed through the channel into a crater lake, depositing material in a similar manner to river d...
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This image show a fan-shaped deposit where a channel enters a crater.
Fluvial Fan on a Crater Floor (3-D)
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 130th Martian day, or sol, (De...
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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 130th Martian day, or sol, (Dec. 17, 2012).
Curiosity Traverse Map, Sol 130

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