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February 15, 2009
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NASA's Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, which the science team has named "Hottah" after Hottah Lake in...
Remnants of Ancient Streambed on Mars (White-Balanced View)
NASA's Curiosity finds that the Red Planet doesn't have the same atmosphere it used to.
Mars' Bygone Atmosphere
This graph presents information from the NASA Curiosity Mars rover's onboard analysis of rock powder drilled from the "Buckskin" and "Greenhorn" target locations on lower Mount Sharp.
Silica in Opal at 'Buckskin' and 'Greenhorn' on Mount Sharp
This image from NASA's Curiosity Rover shows a high-resolution view of an area that is known as Goulburn Scour, a set of rocks blasted by the engines of Curiosity's descent stage on Mars.
Best View of Goulburn Scour
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
About the size of a small toaster, the Radiation Assessment Detector will look skyward and use a stack of silicon detectors and a crystal of cesium iodide to measure galactic cosmic rays and solar ...
Radiation Assessment Detector
This image shows an example of a thin-laminated, evenly stratified rock type that occurs in the "Pahrump Hills" outcrop at the base of Mount Sharp on Mars. The Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rove...
Thin-Laminated Rock in 'Pahrump Hills' Outcrop
The Curiosity Cam live video feed allows the public to watch technicians assemble and test NASA's next Mars rover in a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Curiosity Cam Goes Live
The red "X" marks the spot where NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars.
Zeroing in on Rover's Landing Site
This set of images compares test images taken by four cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory before launch.
Comparison of Curiosity Camera Fields of View
This oblique view of the lower mound in Gale crater on Mars shows an area of top scientific interest for the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Lower Portion of Mound Inside Gale Crater
Wheels were first attached to NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover in August 2008.
Next NASA Mars Rover Gets Its Wheels
Curiosity prepares for a second drilling and a tutorial on the complicated choreography to get the drill sample to her instruments.
Rover Readies for Second Drilling
Five years of Martian discoveries after seven minutes of terror.
Curiosity's First Five Years of Science on Mars
This plot shows the first-ever look at the deuterium to hydrogen ratio measured from the surface of Mars, as detected by the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, or SAM, on NASA's Curiosity rover.
Atmospheric Loss on Mars
A "scarecrow" rover at NASA's JPL drives over a sensor while testing a new driving algorithm. Engineers created the algorithm to reduce wheel wear on the Mars Curiosity rover.
Traction control testing
This cropped image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows one set of marks on the surface of Mars where blasts from the descent-stage rocket engines blew away some of the surface material.
Goulburn Scour Mark
This movie from NASA's Curiosity rover shows most of the high-resolution frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown. The video, obtained on Aug...
Dropping in on Mars in High-Res
Satellite news trucks crowd the parking lots at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Aug. 5, 2012, in preparation for the Curiosity rover’s landing on Mars.
Media Trucks Descend on JPL
Meet some of the women team members and hear about the exciting and challenging jobs they do in science and engineering while working with Mars rover Curiosity.
Woman Working on Mars: Amanda Steffy
This mosaic of images from the Navigation Camera (Navcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows the terrain surrounding the rover's position on the 524th Martian day, or sol, of the mission (Jan. 26...
Full-Circle Vista During Curiosity's Approach to 'Dingo Gap'
This 360-degree image shows a complete, full-resolution panorama around NASA's Curiosity rover, taken by the Navigation cameras.
All Around Curiosity
This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a series of sedimentary deposits in the Glenelg area of Gale Crater, from a perspective in Yello...
Erosion by Scarp Retreat in Gale Crater (Unannotated)
The Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera at the end of the robotic arm of NASA's Curiosity rover will use a calibration target attached to a shoulder joint of the arm.
Calibration Target on Curiosity for Camera on Rover's Arm
A group of engineers and technicians prepare to mate the rover (tucked inside its backshell and turned upside-down on the left) to its protective heatshield, the black disk on the right.
Assembly and Testing
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