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Dark narrow streaks, called "recurring slope lineae," emanate from the walls of Garni Crater on Mars, in this view constructed from observations by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (H...
Dark, Recurring Streaks on Walls of Garni Crater
This graph shows changes in apparent brightness of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring as it approached and receded from Mars, as seen by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on...
Brightness Rhythm of Mars Flyby Comet Is Clue to Rotation Rate
This series of images shows warm-season features that might be evidence of salty liquid water active on Mars today.
Warm-Season Flows on Steep Slope in Slope in Terra Cimmeria (Eight-Image Sequence)
This picture of a crater resembling a "happy face" was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's Context Camera. The unnamed crater is almost 2 miles (about 3 kilometers) across That's a BIG smile!
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This image acquired on December 11, 2018 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a surface texture of interconnected ridges and troughs, referred to as brain terrain, found throughout the mid-l...
The Slow Charm of Brain Terrain
This image maps the traverse of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity from "Bradbury Landing" to "Yellowknife Bay," with an inset documenting a change in the ground's thermal properties with arrival at a dif...
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Dark, seasonal flows emanate from bedrock exposures at Palikir Crater on Mars in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Warm-Season Flows on Martian Slope
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The South Polar residual cap (the part that lasts through the summer) is composed of carbon dioxide ice.
Honey, I Shrunk the Mesas
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Artist rendering of commercial Mars satellites providing communications back to Earth.
Artist's Concept of Mars Satellites
This is a small volcano superimposed on the flanks of a larger one of the Cerberus Tholi.
Small Floral-Shaped Volcano
Martian gullies as seen in the top image from HiRISE on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter resemble gullies on Earth that are carved by liquid water. However, when they are observed with the additi...
Adding Composition Data About Mars Gullies
Mesas in Aureum Chaos
Mesas in Aureum Chaos
Animation of a skinny "dust devil" on the dust-covered Amazonis Planitia region of northern Mars. (No audio)
Mars' Whirling Dust Devil
This May 2015 image from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a location on Mars associated with the best-selling novel and Hollywood movie, "The Martian." It is in a regio...
The Ares 3 Landing Site: Where Science Fact Meets Fiction
This artist's animation shows how NASA's Curiosity rover will communicate with Earth via two of NASA's Mars orbiters, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Odyssey. As the rover descends to the surface o...
Communicating with Curiosity
A meteorite impact that excavated this crater on Mars exposed bright ice that had been hidden just beneath the surface at this location.
Fresh Crater Exposing Buried Ice on Mid-Latitude Mars
A rippled dune front in Herschel Crater on Mars moved an average of about two meters (about two yards) between March 3, 2007 and December 1, 2010, as seen in these images from NASA's Mars Reconnais...
Rippling Dune Front in Herschel Crater on Mars
Two types of wind-blown sedimentary deposits are pictured in this scene of the floor of Ius Chasma in the Valles Marineris.
Dunes and Ripples in Valles Marineris (3-D)
This oblique view with moderate vertical exaggeration shows the portion of the rim of Endeavour crater given the informal name "Spirit Point." This is the location where the team operating NASA's ...
Opportunity's First Goal at Endeavour Crater: 'Spirit Point'
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and its tracks are visible in this view combining information from three observations by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Re...
Stereo View of Curiosity and Rover Tracks at 'the Kimberley,' April 2014
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
This color view of the parachute and back shell that helped deliver NASA's Curiosity rover to the surface of the Red Planet was taken by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) came...
Relics of Rover's Landing
Caught in Action: This image shows avalanches on North Polar Scarps.
Caught in Action: Avalanches on North Polar Scarps
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