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February 15, 2009
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This map shows the route driven and route planned for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from before reaching "Dingo Gap."
Map of Recent and Planned Driving by Curiosity as of Feb. 18, 2014
In this image, the car-size rover is in the middle of the picture with several team members surrounding it. The team members are all dressed in special head-to-toe white suits, called 'bunny suits....
So Happy Together
Engineers put the rover through spin tests to ensure smooth sailing in space.
Building Curiosity: Going For A Spin
This drawing of the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, Curiosity, indicates the location of science instruments and some other tools on the car-size rover.
Diverse Science Payload on Mars Rover Curiosity
After four years on Mars, Curiosity rover and her operations team are now seasoned explorers, anxious to climb to greater heights on Mount Sharp.
Curiosity Rover Report: Four Years on Mars
Has Mars ever had the right ingredients for life? What are organic molecules, and what can they tell us about the history of Mars? Learn more in this 60-second video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Labo...
Mars in a Minute: Why is Curiosity Looking for Organics?
NASA's Curiosity rover successfully drilled a 2-inch-deep hole in a target called "Duluth" on May 20. It was the first rock sample captured by the drill since October 2016. This image was taken by ...
First Drilled Sample on Mars Since 2016
This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows an example of cross-bedding that results from water passing over a loose bed of sediment.
Cross-Bedding at 'Whale Rock'
For at least a couple of days, the science team of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is focused on a full-bore science campaign at a tantalizing, rocky site informally called "Darwin."
Evolving Excitement Over 'Darwin' Rock Outcrop at 'Waypoint 1'
There are no gas stations or power outlets in space. That's why NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars--and some other NASA spacecraft that explore the solar system--use something called "radioisotope powe...
Spacecraft Power
An eruption from the surface of the sun is conspicuous in the lower left portion of this July 6, 2015, image from NASA's Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory. It originates from a location on ...
Solar Activity Seen at Sunspot Site Tracked by Mars Rover
Engineers put the rover through thousands of hours of testing. They did drop tests; pull tests; drive tests; load tests, and many other tests to get Curiosity ready for launch.
Challenges of Getting to Mars: Getting a Rover Ready for Launch
An analysis of a drilled rock sample from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the presence of water, carbon dioxide, oxygen, sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide released on heating. The results analyzing...
Major Gases Released from Drilled Samples of the "John Klein" Rock
Delta II rocket lifts off the launch pad with the Phoenix spacecraft onboard.
Phoenix launch image
This mosaic taken by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover looks uphill at Mount Sharp, which Curiosity has been climbing.
Curiosity is Ready for Clay (Highlighted)
The highest concentration of boron measured on Mars, as of late 2016, is in this mineral vein examined with the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover on Aug, 25, 2016. Orange bars indicate b...
Boron in Calcium Sulfate Vein at 'Catabola,' Mars
The Martian soil examined by the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover shows the diffraction signature, or "fingerprint," of the mineral olivine, shown here on Eart...
Olivine on Earth
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which landed the rover Curiosity on Mars in August 2012, accepts the Robert J. Collier Trophy from the National Aeronautic Association at a ceremony in Arlin...
2013 Collier Trophy Awarded to Curiosity's Team
This stereo scene looking back at where Curiosity crossed a dune at "Dingo Gap" combines several exposures taken by the Navigation Camera (Navcam) high on the rover's mast. It appears three dimensi...
Panoramic View From West of 'Dingo Gap' (Stereo)
This image shows the calibration target for the Chemistry and Camera instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover before it was installed on the rover and readied for launch.
Pre-Launch Calibration Target for ChemCam
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the exposures combined into this stereo view of a wee crater, informally named "Skylab," along the rover's route. The co...
Opportunity Beside a Small, Young Crater (Stereo)
Inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, technicians using an overhead crane guide the final solid rocket motor into posit...
Booster Rocket Will Give Atlas V a Boost
Curiosity's Rear View, Annotated
Curiosity's Rear View, Annotated
The sparks that appear on the baseball-sized rock result from the laser of the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover hitting the rock. (No audio)
Flash from Curiosity Rover's Laser Hitting a Martian Rock
Five years since it landed near Mount Sharp on Mars in August 2017 and nearly three years since reaching the base of the mountain, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is climbing toward multiple layers of ...
More to Explore in Five-Year-Old Mars Rover's Future
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155 students from across the U.S. have been chosen as semifinalists in NASA's essay contest to name the Mars 2020 rover, and see it launch from Cape Canaveral this July.
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Closer to Getting Its Name
Through Nov. 1, K-12 students in the U.S. are encouraged to enter an essay contest to name NASA's next Mars rover.
NASA Invites Students to Name Mars 2020 Rover
The rover recently drilled two samples, and both showed the highest levels of clay ever found during the mission.
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds a Clay Cache
For the first time, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has caught the Martian moon Phobos during a full moon phase. Each color in this new image represents a temperature range detected by Odyssey's infrared camera.
Why This Martian Full Moon Looks Like Candy
Nominees include four JPL projects: the solar system and climate websites, InSight social media, and a 360-degree Earth video. Public voting closes April 18, 2019.
NASA Garners 7 Webby Award Nominations
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover mission is complete after 15 years on Mars. Opportunity's record-breaking exploration laid the groundwork for future missions to the Red Planet.
NASA's Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End
