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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew over these sand dunes and rocks during its ninth flight, on July 5, 2021. While the agency’s Perseverance Mars can’t risk getting stuck in this sand, scientist...
Ingenuity Spots Rocks During Ninth Flight
The shipping container carrying NASA's Mars 2020 rover is readied for loading aboard an Air Force C-17 transport plane at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California, on Feb. 11, 2020.
Loading Mars 2020
In this time-lapse video taken at JPL, engineers move the Mars 2020 rover into a large vacuum chamber for testing in Mars-like environmental conditions.
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover in Test Chamber
So, you want to study Mars with a lander or rover - but where exactly do you send it? Learn how scientists and engineers tackle this question in this 60-second video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Labo...
Mars in a Minute: How Do You Choose a Landing Site?
Members of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare to receive the data downlink showing whether the helicopter completed...
Mars Helicopter Team Awaits First Flight Results
Engineers use OPTIMISM, a full-size replica of NASA’s Perseverance rover, to test how it will deposit its first sample tube on the Martian surface. The test was conducted in the Mars Yard at JPL.
Testing a Sample Drop in the Mars Yard
When NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover starts its quest for compelling Martian rocks, it will have quite the to-do list: Locate, drill, collect, stash, and so much more
Studying Martian Rocks Back on Earth
This illustration shows NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover on the surface of the Red Planet.
Perseverance Rover on Mars (Gradient Illustration)
An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing on Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land safely on Feb. 18, 2021.
Perseverance Rover Touchdown (Illustration)
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter takes off and lands in this video captured on April 19, 2021, by Mastcam-Z, an imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. This video features only the moments of...
Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity Taking Off and Landing
This series of images from a navigation camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover shows a gust of wind sweeping dust across the Martian plain beyond the rover’s tracks on June 18, 2021 (the 117th sol...
Perseverance Views Wind Lifting a Massive Dust Cloud
This pair of images shows two cylinders of rock the size of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA’s Perseverance rover from an outcrop called "Wildcat Ridge" in Mars’ Jezero Crater.
Perseverance Rock Cores From 'Wildcat Ridge'
The escarpment the science team refers to as “Scarp a” is seen in this image captured by Perseverance rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument on Apr. 17, 2021.
Jezero Crater's 'Scarp A'
MOXIE Functional Block Diagram
MOXIE Functional Block Diagram
Parts of Perseverance are visible beside an area outlined in AI4Mars.
AI4Mars: Rover Wheel
This artwork is printed on one of the 10 samples that make up a suite of calibration targets for the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals (SHER...
SHERLOC Geocoin Artwork
This rock, called “Máaz” (the Navajo word for “Mars”), is the first feature of scientific interest to be studied by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.
A Rock Named Máaz
This image of the Perseverance Mars rover was taken at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on April 7, 2020, during a test of the vehicle's mass properties.
Inverted Rover at Kennedy Space Center
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter takes off and lands in this video captured on April 25, 2021, by Mastcam-Z, an imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.
Perseverance Rover's Mastcam-Z Captures Ingenuity's Third Flight
The Range Trigger technique shrinks the Mars 2020 rovers landing ellipse significantly, landing the rover closer to the target area of greatest scientific interest. This example shows Mars 2020's e...
Mars 2020 Range Trigger
This image shows with a green dot where NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. The base image was taken by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance O...
Perseverance's Landing Spot in Jezero Crater
This is one of 11 digital messages beamed from Mars to students who have overcome academic challenges, on April 4, 2023.
Digital Message from Mars for a Persevering Student
An illustration of MOXIE and its components. An air pump pulls in carbon dioxide gas from the Martian atmosphere, which is then regulated and fed to the Solid OXide Electrolyzer (SOXE), where it is...
Components of MOXIE (Illustration)
NASA's Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, arrives at Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. Its mission: to demonstrate the first powered flight on another planet. Taking to the Martian skies in Spring 2021.
Mars Helicopter – Arriving at the Red Planet, February 2021
Tests to measure the center of gravity and moments of inertia for the Mars 2020 rover aeroshell are performed on the spin table inside Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on...
Mars 2020 Spin Table Activities in PHSF
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