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Countdown Nears: Final Tests
July 14, 2009
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This image shows a graben (a trough formed when the ground drops between two parallel faults) and a lava flow in the Tharsis volcanic province of Mars. North is up.
Graben Cutting Lava Flow in Tharsis
This map of the region around NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the relative locations of several craters and the rover in May 2010.
Opportunity Amid Mars Craters
This image show a fan-shaped deposit where a channel enters a crater. This suggests that water once flowed through the channel into a crater lake, depositing material in a similar manner to river d...
Fluvial Fan on a Crater Floor (3-D)
A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) high was captured winding its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14, 2012 by the High Resolution Imaging Science ...
Mars' Whirling Dust Devil
These dunes may be active today, but we haven't yet observed them at significantly different times to measure the movement.
Dunes on Ridges (3-D)
This view of Martian surface features shaped by effects of winds was captured by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Jan. 4, 2015. The spacecraft has been orbiting Mars sinc...
Yardangs in Arsinoes Chaos, Mars
This view shows a full-resolution portion of 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
The Mars Color Imager (MARCI) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired a seven-band color, wide-angle view of Mars on March 24, 2006, as part of a checkout of the orbiter's payload. Th...
View of Argyre Basin
This terrain is covered by pits and scallops (pits open on one side), perhaps due to collapse after sublimation of subsurface ice.
Utopia Planitia Scallops, Polygons, and Boulders (3-D)
Tracks from the first drives of NASA's Curiosity rover are visible in this image captured by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
A Rover's Journey Begins
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen many places on the planet. One of the most interesting is one of the great canyon systems on Mars.
Soaring Over Mars
The Russell Crater dune field is covered seasonally by carbon dioxide frost, and this image shows the dune field after the frost has sublimated (evaporated directly from solid to gas). There are ju...
Russell Crater Dunes, Defrosted
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)
This is a close-up of the area in the vicinity of the Pathfinder landing site. Major features are named. The white box outlines the area of the image, where hardware is seen.
Landing Site Region
Dark, narrow streaks on Martian slopes such as these at Hale Crater are inferred to have been formed by seasonal flow of water on contemporary Mars. Detection of hydrated salts at the streaks suppo...
Recurring 'Lineae' on Slopes at Hale Crater, Mars
Members of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission pose at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the mission, on June 23, 2016.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Team
Sample Noachis Terra
Sample Noachis Terra
Sand dunes such as those seen in this image have been observed to creep slowly across the surface of Mars through the action of the wind.
Dunes on the Rim of the Hellas Impact Basin
This false-color animation simulates a fly-around look at one of the places on Mars where dark streaks advance down slopes during warm seasons, possibly involving liquid water or brine. This site i...
Animation of Site of Seasonal Flows in Hale Crater, Mars
This view of layered rocks on the floor of McLaughlin Crater shows sedimentary rocks that contain spectroscopic evidence for minerals formed through interaction with water.
Layers with Carbonate Content Inside McLaughlin Crater on Mars
Eberswalde Crater contains layered rocks about 100-meters thick exposed in a a well-preserved delta.
Delta Structure in Eberswalde Crater
This map shows the path on Mars of NASA's Curiosity rover toward Glenelg, an area where three terrains of scientific interest converge.
Curiosity's Roadside Discoveries
This image taken on May 19, 2010, shows an impact crater that had not existed when the same location on Mars was previously observed in March 2008.
Icy Material Thrown from Cratering Impact on Mars
The arm and the remote sensing mast of the Mars rover Curiosity each carry science instruments and other tools for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Arm and Mast of NASA Mars Rover Curiosity
Gullies and Flow Features along Crater Wall in Promethei Terra
Gullies and Flow Features along Crater Wall in Promethei Terra
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