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Artist concept of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
July 14, 2009
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The Moving Sands of Lobo Vallis
A configuration interpreted as the United Kingdom's Beagle 2 Lander, with solar panels at least partially deployed, is indicated in this composite of two images from the High Resolution Imaging Sci...
Beagle 2 Lander on Mars, With Panels Deployed
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) on April 11, 2014, to record this scene of a butte called "Mount Remarkable" and surrounding outcrops at a waypoint called "the Kimbe...
'Mount Remarkable' and Surrounding Outcrops at Mars Rover's Waypoint
This field of dunes lies on the floor of an old crater in Noachis Terra, one of the oldest places on Mars.
Colorful Dunes
In this Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter view of the Curiosity rover mission's waypoint called "the Kimberley," the red dot indicates the location of a sandstone target, "Windjana," selected for close-u...
Location of Mars Sandstone Target 'Windjana'
This image covers the margin of a lava flow in Elysium Planitia, the youngest flood-lava province on Mars. Flood lavas cover extensive areas, and were once thought to be emplaced extremely rapidly,...
Of Elephants and Floods of Lava (3-D)
Streaks seen on warm Martian slopes might be caused by seeping water rich in salts that lower its freezing point far below the freezing point of pure water. These features, known as Recurring Slope...
Seasonal Flows in the Central Mountains of Hale Crater
Dry ice causes "Swiss Cheese" terrain on Mars.
"Swiss Cheese" Terrain on Mars
This enhanced image shows the inside of a rimless pit about 180 meters (591 feet) in diameter, northwest of the mountain Ascraeus Mons in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
Sand Ripples Inside a Rimless Martian Pit (Stretched)
This HiRISE image shows diverse layers in a region near Mawrth Vallis, a channel that was probably carved by water in Mars' ancient past. The color subimage shows details of layers exposed in a cra...
Diverse Layers and Mineralogy Near Mawrth Vallis (3-D)
This composite graphic illustrates the use of the Shallow Radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for mapping underground ice-rich layers of the north polar layered terrain on Mars.
Radar Mapping of Icy Layers Under Mars' North Pole
A dust storm continues to envelop the Red Planet and Curiosity’s labs are back in action.
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Nili Patera is a region on Mars in which dunes and ripples are moving rapidly. HiRISE continues to monitor this area every couple of months to see changes over seasonal and annual time scales.
Dunes and Ripples in Nili Patera
How before-and-after pictures led to the discovery of a fresh meteor impact crater on Mars.
Mars Weathercam Helps Find Big, New Crater
Amazingly, this HiRISE image has captured at least four avalanches, or debris falls, in action.
Caught in Action: Avalanches on North Polar Scarps
A variety of landforms, including isolated hills, eroded mesas, dark eroded sediments, and dunes are seen within an area called "Aram Chaos."
The Eastern Floor of Aram Chaos (3-D)
This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows sedimentary-rock layering in which a series of layers are all approximatel...
Periodic Layering in Martian Sedimentary Rocks
Aram Chaos is a heavily eroded impact crater that contains jumbled blocks of material disrupted when large quantities of ice or water were catastrophically removed. The light toned sediments may ha...
Aram Chaos (3-D)
This Oct. 25, 2016, image from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the area where the Europe's Schiaparelli test lander struck Mars, with magnified insets of three sites w...
Closer Look at Schiaparelli Impact Site on Mars
This graphic presents Martian atmospheric temperature data as curtains over an image of Mars taken during a regional dust storm. The temperature profiles extend from the surface to about 50 miles u...
Mars Atmospheric Temperature and Dust Storm Tracking
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
Shalbatana Vallis is a large channel with steep walls and a flat floor that may have formed by water draining from nearby Ganges Chasma. Here a section of the wall collapsed and produced a landslid...
Landslide in Shalbatana Vallis (3-D)
Images like this from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show portions of the Martian surface in unprecedented detail.
True Gullies on Mars
What triggered a Martian landslide? Landslides are common features in canyons on both Earth and Mars, and they happen the same way.
Noctis Landslide
How can you communicate with Mars spacecraft when the Sun is in the way? Learn more about 'solar conjunction' in this 60-second video.
Mars in a Minute: What Happens When the Sun Blocks our Signal?
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