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This composite image of Earth and Mars was created to allow viewers to gain a better understanding of the relative sizes of the two planets.

December 17, 2009

This composite image of Earth and Mars was created to allow viewers to gain a better understanding of the relative sizes of the two planets.

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Animation shows each step of the Ingenuity helicopter deploying from the belly of the rover
Ingenuity's Complete Deployment
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter does a slow spin test of its blades, on April 8, 2021, the 48th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This image was captured by the Navigation Cameras on NASA’s Persever...
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Ingenuity Begins to Spin Its Blades
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter unlocked its blades, allowing them to spin freely, on April 7, 2021, the 47th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This image was captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard...
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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter unlocked its blades, allowing them to spin freely, on April 7, 2021, the 47th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This image was captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on the following sol, April 8, 2021.
Ingenuity's Blades Are Released
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover. This image was taken by the WASTON camera on the rover’s robotic arm...
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Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity
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Rafael Navarro Mountain on Mars
‘Rafael Navarro Mountain'
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter can be seen here with all four of its legs deployed before dropping from the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 30, 2021, the 39th Martian day, or sol, of the miss...
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter can be seen here with all four of its legs deployed before dropping from the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 30, 2021, the 39th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
Ingenuity Helicopter is Ready to Drop
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam instrument to take the 126 individual images that make up this 360-degree panorama on March 3, 2021, the 3,048th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Curiosity's 360-Degree View Approaching 'Mont Mercou'
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam instrument to take the 32 individual images that make up this panorama of the outcrop nicknamed “Mont Mercou.” It took a second panorama to create a ste...
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam instrument to take the 32 individual images that make up this panorama of the outcrop nicknamed “Mont Mercou.”
Curiosity's 3D View of 'Mont Mercou'
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Curiosity's Selfie at Mont Mercou
NASA’s Perseverance rover wiggles one of its wheels in this set of images obtained by the rover’s left Navigation Camera on March 4, 2021.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover wiggles one of its wheels in this set of images obtained by the rover’s left Navigation Camera on March 4, 2021.
Perseverance Wiggles a Wheel
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Flexing Perseverance's Robotic Arm
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Perseverance's Big Wheel
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High-Resolution Still Image of Perseverance's Landing
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This image acquired on October 7, 2020 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a deposit draping the surface like a blanket.
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Angle on Jezero Crater (Illustration)
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