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July 14, 2009
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This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows gullies near the edge of Hale crater on southern Mars. The view covers an ...
Gullies at the Edge of Hale Crater, Mars
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been on the western rim of Endeavour Crater in Meridiani Planum for about two years. Until May 2013, it was investigating sedimentary layers that are ...
Color View From Orbit Showing Opportunity in 'Botany Bay' (Annotated)
Mars has extremely large temperature changes from winter to summer compared to the Earth. It gets cold enough to freeze carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere during the winter, but this ice is unsta...
Carbon Dioxide Ice in the Late Summer
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...
Mars Gravity Map
Polygons are of great interest because they often indicate the presence of shallow ice or of desiccation such as in a mud flat. However, nature sometimes seems too clever for us.
Polygonal Sand Dunes
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...
Curiosity Traverse Map, Sol 130
Collapsing Volcano; Edge of Olympus Mons
Collapsing Volcano; Edge of Olympus Mons
Five decades of successful NASA missions to the Red Planet, 1965-2015.
50 Years of Mars Exploration
The Mars Climate Sounder instrument, shown here prior to its installation onto NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for the mission's 2006 launch, will get a similar-looking sibling at Mars in 2016.
Climate Sounder Instrument for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
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)
Two parallel tracks left by the wheels of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover cross rugged ground in this portion of a Dec. 11, 2013, observation by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) ...
Curiosity Rover Tracks, Viewed from Orbit in December 2013
This sequence of three HiRISE images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the growth of a branching network of troughs carved by thawing carbon dioxide over the span of three Martian years...
'Baby Spider': Growth of a Martian Trough Network
Artist concept of glacier on Mars.
Artist concept of Glaciers on Mars
This image of Victoria Crater in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at more of a s...
Oblique View of Victoria Crater
This HiRISE image shows a mixture of bright and dark units. The bright units have a mineral called sulfate (salty sulfuric acid) that on Earth typically forms in the presence of water as an evapori...
Jumbled Terrain in Ius Chasma (3-D)
This image shows the quadrangle where NASA's Curiosity rover landed, now called Yellowknife.
Curiosity's Quad
This set of images shows what might be hardware from the Soviet Union's 1971 Mars 3 lander, seen in a pair of images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Ma...
Could This Be the Mars Soviet 3 Lander?
The gullies on a Martian sand dune in this trio of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter deceptively resemble features on Earth that are carved by streams of water.
Gully Changes on Martian Sand Dune
Impact cratering and erosion combine to reveal the composition of the Martian underground by exposing materials from the subsurface.
Clay Minerals in Craters and Escarpments on Mars (Figure 4)
A path resembling a dotted line from the upper left to middle right of this image is the track left by an irregularly shaped, oblong boulder as it tumbled down a slope on Mars before coming to rest...
An Irregular, Upright Boulder on Mars
This image shows the landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover and destinations scientists want to investigate.
Martian Treasure Map
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a meteoroid impact that was first detected by the agency’s InSight lander using its seismometer. This crater was formed on Aug. 30, 2021.
InSight-Detected Impact in August 2021
This image acquired on January 25, 2019 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Ius Chasma, a major section of the western portion of the giant Valles Marineris trough.
In the Gullies and Bedrock of Ius Chasma
This close-up image of a dust storm on Mars was acquired by the Mars Color Imager instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov. 7, 2007.
Martian Dust Storm
This March 20, 2014, image from the MARCI camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a dark spot (at center of inscribed rectangle) noticed while the image was being examined for a weather re...
Impact Scar Detected in Mars Weathercam Image
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