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Countdown Nears: Final Tests
Countdown Nears: Final Tests
A rippled patch of sand in Becquerel Crater on Mars moved about two meters (about two yards) between November 24, 2006 and September 5, 2010, as observed in these images taken by NASA's Mars Reconn...
Blowing in the Martian Wind
This image is of a portion of the Southern plains region within Hellas, the largest impact basin on Mars, with a diameter of about 2300 kilometers (1400 miles).
Pitted Landforms in Southern Hellas Planitia
Dry ice causes "Swiss Cheese" terrain on Mars.
"Swiss Cheese" Terrain on Mars
This movie clip shows a global map of Mars with atmospheric changes from Feb. 18, 2017, through March 6, 2017, a period when two regional-scale dust storms appeared. It combines hundreds of images ...
Back-to-Back Martian Dust Storms
These collapse pits probably formed when lava erupted from the side of Arsia Mons, draining underground magma reservoirs. The resulting voids collapse due to the weight of the solid lava above them...
Pits on Arsia Mons (3-D)
Follow along on a tour of the landing scene of NASA's Curiosity rover in this video made up of images from two NASA orbiters. The movie begins with a global image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, ...
Zooming in on the Scene of Curiosity's Landing
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
Here is a view of Earth and its moon, as seen from Mars. It combines two images acquired on Nov. 20, 2016, by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with brightness adjusted separ...
Earth and Its Moon, as Seen From Mars
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 animation flips back and forth between views taken in 2010 and 2014 of a Martian sand dune at the edge of Mount Sharp, documenting dune activity. The images are from the HiRISE camera on NASA'...
Change Observed in Martian Sand Dune
This image shows the landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover and destinations scientists want to investigate.
Martian Treasure Map
This feature has a strange appearance, as if the crater has feet with toes sticking out of two sides. Let's try to explain this.
Weird Crater
NASA's spacecraft on Mars are all affected by the winds of the Red Planet, which can produce a tiny dust devil or a global dust storm.
Mars Report: How Scientists Study Wind on Mars
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 vertically exaggerated view shows scalloped depressions in a part of Mars where such textures prompted researchers to check for buried ice, using ground-penetrating radar aboard NASA's Mars Re...
Scalloped Terrain Led to Finding of Buried Ice on Mars
On Nov. 1, 2016, the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed the impact site of Europe's Schiaparelli test lander, gaining the first color view of the site since the lander's O...
Schiaparelli Impact Site on Mars, in Color
This image acquired on January 23, 2019 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the western portion of a well-preserved (recent) impact crater in Ladon Basin.
Colorful Impact Ejecta in Ladon Valles
This image, acquired on January 2, 2014, by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows dune fields located among canyon wall slopes.
Hanging Sand Dunes within Coprates Chasma
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been observing Mars since 2006, enabling it to document many types of changes, such as the way winds alter the appearance of this recent impact site. The orbi...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Observes Changes
These images from orbit show an area near Mars' south pole where coalescing or elongated pits are interpreted as signs that an underlying deposit of frozen carbon dioxide, or "dry ice," has been sh...
Pitting from Sublimation of Underlying Dry-Ice Layer
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
This image taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows ice sheets at Mars’ south pole. The spacecraft detected clays nearby this ice; scientists have proposed such clays are the source of rad...
MRO Spots Clays and Ice
This series of images shows warm-season features that might be evidence of salty liquid water active on Mars today.
Warm-Season Flows in Well-Preserved Crater in Terra Sirenum (Six-Image Sequence)
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