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July 14, 2009
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This view of an inverted crater in the Arabia Terra region of Mars is among the images taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in early 2010 as the spacecraft approached the 100-terabit milesto...
Dunes and Inverted Crater in Arabia Terra
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
This view shows the ground covered in the first image of Mars taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
First Mars Image from Newly Arrived Camera
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from the location where it landed in August 2012 to its location in September 2016 at "Murray Buttes," and the path planned for reachi...
Curiosity Destinations for Second Extended Mission
This image acquired on December 5, 2018 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows ripples in the sand which tell us which way the wind was moving and how it was diverted around these rock formati...
Wind Flow
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 56th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Oct. 2, 2012).
Curiosity's Travels Through Sol 56
This is a small volcano superposed on the flanks of a larger one of the Cerberus Tholi.
Small Floral-Shaped Volcano on Cerberus Fossae (3-D)
The Mars Climate Sounder instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter maps the vertical distribution of temperatures, dust, water vapor and ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere as the orbiter f...
Martian Atmosphere Profiles
This color image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows bedrock layers of diverse colors and composition.
Colorful Layers in Ariadnes Colles
This image acquired on December 9, 2018 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows Athabasca Valles with lava flows originating from Elysium Mons to the northwest.
Almost Like Water
Collapsing Volcano; Edge of Olympus Mons
Collapsing Volcano; Edge of Olympus Mons
A region known as "Cape York" on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity worked for 20 months, is highlighted in these images.
'Cape York' Explored
This image from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a location associated with the novel and movie, "The Martian." It is the tale's planned landing site for the Ares 4 mis...
'The Martian' Story's Ares 4 Landing Site
Dry ice causes "Swiss Cheese" terrain on Mars.
"Swiss Cheese" Terrain on Mars
This crater is named for G. Edward Danielson, Jr. who was instrumental in the development of a series of Mars cameras, from Mariner 4 launched in 1964 to the Mars Global Surveyor launched in 1996.
Layered Sediments in Danielson Crater
This image shows part of Ladon Vallis that is located within Ladon basin.
Light-Toned Layered Rock Outcrop in Ladon Valles (3-D)
Dunes are often found on crater floors. In the winter, at high northern latitudes, the terrain is covered by carbon-dioxide ice (dry ice).
Frost-Covered Dunes in a Crater
Mars's seasonal polar caps are composed primarily of carbon-dioxide frost.
Seasonal Processes-Omega Sublimation
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...
Meanders and Tributaries in Ridge Form in the Zephyria Region (3-D)
This view from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows part of an area on Mars where narrow rock ridges, some as tall as a 16-story building, intersect at angles forming corne...
Blade-Like Martian Walls Outline Polygons
The annotated area of Mars in this illustration holds near-surface water ice that would be easily accessible for astronauts to dig up. The water ice was identified as part of a map using data from ...
Water Ice Marked on Mars Globe
Hitting a moving target over 306 million miles away is no easy feat. Learn how JPL navigation engineers have guided the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter toward its mission-critical capture into orbit ar...
Challenges of Getting to Mars: Hitting the Bull's-Eye
This image shows a cross-section of a portion of the north polar ice cap of Mars, derived from data acquired by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's Shallow Radar (SHARAD), one of six instruments on t...
North Polar Cap Cross Section (Annotated)
Researchers estimating the amount of carbon held in the ground at the largest known carbonate-containing deposit on Mars utilized data from three different NASA Mars orbiters.
Multiple Instruments Used for Mars Carbon Estimate
This image, taken with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, shows the transition between the "Murray Formation," in which layers are poorly expressed and difficult to tra...
Geological Transition
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