Skip Navigation
menu

CURIOSITY IMAGES

Crater Rim

February 24, 2021

This shows the rim of Jezero Crater as seen in the first 360-degree panorama taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.

View full image and caption ›

Credit

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU

ENLARGE

Related

Members of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission were jubilant on Feb. 18, 2021, after the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars. They are in Mission Control at the Jet Propulsion Labo...
More
Perseverance's team members celebrate the rover safe arrival on Mars
Cheers for a Successful Mars Landing
This engineering model of Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument is about to undergo vibration testing in a lab at the JPL.
More
This engineering model of Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument is about to undergo vibration testing in a lab at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Vibration tests demonstrate the ability of instruments to survive the extreme conditions of both a rocket launch from Earth and a landing on Mars.
MOXIE Shakes it UP
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021.
More
A video recapping the first flight of the Mars helicopter
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Successfully Completes First Flight
Engineers and technicians working on NASA's Mars 2020 mission prepare spacecraft components for acoustic testing in the Environmental Test Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ...
More
Engineers and technicians working on NASA's Mars 2020 mission prepare spacecraft components for acoustic testing in the Environmental Test Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Mars 2020 Is Wired for Sound
In this illustration, NASA’s Perseverance rover gets its first look at the Martian surface below, after dropping its heat shield just under six minutes after entry into the Mars atmosphere. Hundred...
More
In this illustration, NASA’s Perseverance rover is very close to the Martian surface
Perseverance Heat Shield Separation (Illustration)
Models for the seasonal variation in atmospheric density on Mars between summer (low density) and winter (higher density) predict that air density will be high enough in late March for NASA’s Mars ...
More
Models for the seasonal variation in atmospheric density on Mars between summer (low density) and winter (higher density) predict that air density will be high enough in late March for NASA’s Mars Ingenuity Helicopter to return to its original RPM.
Mars Atmosphere Density Model
PIXL's sensor head before being integrated with the robotic arm at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
More
The PIXL sensor head in a lab.
PIXL's Sensor Head
This 3D view of an area the Mars Perseverance rover team calls “Faillefeu” was created from data collected by NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 13th flight at Mars on Sept. 4, 2021.
More
This 3D view of an area the Mars Perseverance rover team calls “Faillefeu” was created from data collected by NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 13th flight at Mars on Sept. 4, 2021.
Mars Mound From Ingenuity Helicopter's Perspective in 3D
The calibration target for SHERLOC, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, features a slice of Martian meteorite, plus spacesuit materials, including helmet-visor material th...
More
The calibration target for SHERLOC on Mars Perseverance rover
SHERLOC's Calibration Target Aboard the Perseverance Mars Rover
JPL mechanical technician Eddie Castro uses a paint meter to measure the paint thickness on the Mars 2020 rover chassis.
More
JPL mechanical technician Eddie Castro uses a paint meter to measure the paint thickness on the Mars 2020 rover chassis.
Measuring Up
​​The shipping container carrying NASA's Mars 2020 rover is readied for loading aboard an Air Force C-17 transport plane at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California, on Feb. 11, 2020.
More
​​The shipping container carrying NASA's Mars 2020 rover is readied for loading aboard an Air Force C-17 transport plane at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California, on Feb. 11, 2020.
Loading Mars 2020
Taken on March 5, 2021, this color-calibrated image from a Navigation Camera aboard NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover shows tracks from the rover’s first drive (darker marks in the foreground) an...
More
These sets of animated GIFs show seven views of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover wiggling its wheels on March 4, 2021, the day Perseverance completed its first drive on Mars.
Multiple Views of Perseverance's Wheels Wiggling
In this photo taken on Oct. 1, 2019, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (between left and center rover wheels) have just completed a multiweek evaluation under Mars-...
More
Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Deployment Test
This video and audio show the results of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover using its SuperCam microphone to record the sounds of a Martian dust devil – the first time any such recording has been made....
More
This video and audio show the results of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover using its SuperCam microphone to record the sounds of a Martian dust devil – the first time any such recording has been made.
NASA's Perseverance Records a Martian Dust Devil
Engineers lower MOXIE into the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover.
More
NASA Technicians the MOXIE instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover
Engineers Lower MOXIE into Perseverance
This image shows the flight zone of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter from the perspective of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The flight zone is the area within which the helicopter will attempt to ...
More
This image shows the flight zone of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter from the perspective of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover
Rover Point of View of Ingenuity Flight Zone
Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) is an exploration technology investigation that will produce oxygen from Martian atmospheric carbon dioxide.
More
Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE) is an exploration technology investigation that will produce oxygen from Martian atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment Instrument for Mars 2020 Rover is MOXIE
Members of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory react to data showing that the helicopter completed its first flight on April...
More
Members of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter team react to data showing that the helicopter completed its first flight
Ingenuity's Team Reacts to Data Showing It Completed Its First Flight
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, July 30, 2020, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Flori...
More
Rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard launches from KSC
Leaving Green Fields for the Red Planet
In this illustration, NASA's Mars 2020 rover uses its drill to core a rock sample on Mars.
More
In this illustration, NASA's Mars 2020 rover uses its drill to core a rock sample on Mars.
Mars 2020 Collecting Sample (Artist's Concept)
This image shows the finely layered internal structure of a stromatolite from the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia.
More
finely layered internal structure of a stromatolite
Tumbiana Stromatolite
This guided tour of Mars' Jezero Crater from NASA’s Perseverance rover provides a glimpse of the Martian landscape  from the rover's highest vantage point yet in the “Séítah” region.
More
This guided tour of Mars' Jezero Crater from NASA’s Perseverance rover provides a glimpse of the Martian landscape from the rover's highest vantage point yet in the “Séítah” region.
Explore Mars' Jezero Crater with NASA's Perseverance Rover
Eleven students, along with parents, teachers, and classmates, met virtually with NASA Mars Perseverance team members to celebrate the students’ participation in the “You’ve Got Perseverance” campa...
More
Eleven students, along with parents, teachers, and classmates, met virtually with NASA Mars Perseverance team members to celebrate the students’ participation in the “You’ve Got Perseverance” campaign.
Persevering Students Receive Messages from Mars (5th Opportunity)
Video from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captures a closeup view of the 13th flight of the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, on Sept. 4, 2021.
More
Video from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captures a closeup view of the 13th flight of the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, on Sept. 4, 2021.
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's Flight 13: Zoomed-In View From Perseverance
This image shows where NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will take its test flights. Helicopter engineers added the locations for the rover landing site, the airfield, and the flight zone on an imag...
More
This image shows where NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will take its test flights
Map of Ingenuity Helicopter Flight Zone

You Might Also Like

A pair of quakes in 2021 sent seismic waves deep into the Red Planet’s core, giving scientists the best data yet on its size and composition.
More
NASA InSight Study Provides Clearest Look Ever at Martian Core
NASA InSight Study Provides Clearest Look Ever at Martian Core
Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars’ surface so they could be studied on Earth in the future.
More
NASA's Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot
NASA's Perseverance Rover Completes Mars Sample Depot
Filled with rock, the sample tube will be one of 10 forming a depot of tubes that could be considered for a journey to Earth by the Mars Sample Return campaign.
More
NASA's Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Mars Surface
NASA's Perseverance Rover Deposits First Sample on Mars Surface
The mission has concluded that the solar-powered lander has run out of energy after more than four years on the Red Planet.
More
NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science
NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science
The 10 sample tubes being dropped on Mars’ surface so they can be studied on Earth in the future carry an amazing diversity of Red Planet geology.
More
NASA's Perseverance Rover to Begin Building Martian Sample Depot
NASA's Perseverance Rover to Begin Building Martian Sample Depot
The agency’s Perseverance rover will establish the first sample depot on Mars.
More
NASA and ESA Agree on Next Steps to Return Mars Samples to Earth
NASA and ESA Agree on Next Steps to Return Mars Samples to Earth