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Nili Fossae Trough
February 15, 2009
Nili Fossae Trough
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This image of a U.S. penny on a calibration target was taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) aboard NASA's Curiosity rover in Gale Crater on Mars. At 14 micrometers per pixel, this is the high...
Mars Hand Lens Imager Sends Ultra High-Res Photo from Mars
Self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover uses thumbnail versions of MAHLI component images to give an idea of what a sharper version will look like when the full-frame images are assembled.
Preliminary Self-Portrait of Curiosity by Rover's Arm Camera
Two sizes of ripples are evident in this Dec. 13, 2015, view of a top of a Martian sand dune, from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. Sand dunes and the smaller type of ripples also exist on Earth. The l...
Two Sizes of Ripples on Surface of Martian Sand Dune
Download a PDF of the Mars Science Laboratory Launch Press Kit.
Mars Science Laboratory Launch Press Kit
This is the right-eye member of a stereo pair of images of the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, Curiosity.
Mars Science Laboratory Mission's Curiosity Rover (Right Eye of Stereo)
This photo shows 70 members of the Mars Science Laboratory team in Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Spacecraft Assembly Facility after they have prepared the spacecraft to go to a different area for the...
Mars Science Laboratory Talks, Rocks, Bakes and Chills (Team)
Download a PDF of Curiosity's Pre-Landing Lithograph.
Curiosity's Pre-Landing Lithograph
Some of the women working on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project, which built and operates the Curiosity Mars rover, gathered for this photo in the Mars Yard used for rover testing at NASA's Jet...
Women of Mars, in Mars Yard at JPL
This wide view of the 'John Klein' location selected for the first rock drilling by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is a mosaic taken by Curiosity's right Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the afternoon of ...
Neighborhood for Curiosity's First Drilling Campaign (Raw-color)
This detailed panorama from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a view toward two areas on lower Mount Sharp chosen for close-up inspection: "Mount Shields" and "Logan Pa...
Looking Toward Curiosity Study Areas, Spring 2015 (Unlabeled)
Mars rover Curiosity, the centerpiece of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, is coming together for extensive testing prior to its late 2011 launch.
Mars rover Curiosity with Newly Installed Wheels
NASA Mars Rover Curiosity at JPL, Side View
NASA Mars Rover Curiosity at JPL, Side View
This photograph of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, was taken during mobility testing on June 3, 2011. The location is inside the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propul...
Mars Rover Curiosity, Front View
Miguel San Martin, Chief Engineer for Guidance, Navigation and Control for the Curiosity rover, pauses to hold back tears as he leads the Entry, Descent and Landing team into the post-landing news ...
Tears of Joy
The Atlas V payload fairing containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft rises above the floor of the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Moving the Payload Fairing
This graph shows the rise and fall of air and ground temperatures on Mars obtained by NASA's Curiosity rover.
Taking Mars' Temperature
This instrument, shown prior to its September 2010 installation onto NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, will aid future human missions to Mars by providing information about the radiation environment on ...
Radiation Assessment Detector for Mars Science Laboratory
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 597 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (April 11, 2014).
Curiosity's Traverse Map Through Sol 597
This stereo view from the Curiosity Mars rover's Navcam shows a 360-degree panorama around the site where the rover spent its 1,000th Martian day, or sol, on Mars. The image appears three-dimension...
Panorama from Curiosity's Sol 1000 Location (Stereo)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of various rock types at waypoint called "the Kimberley" shortly after arriving at the location on April 2, 2014. The site offers a diversity of rock ...
Curiosity's View From Arrival Point at 'The Kimberley' Waypoint
An outcrop visible as light-toned streaks in the lower center of this image has been chosen as a place for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity to study for a few days in September 2013.
'Darwin' Outcrop at 'Waypoint 1' of Curiosity's trek to Mount Sharp
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover targeted the laser of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument with remarkable accuracy for assessing the composition of the wall of a drilled hole and tailings tha...
Accurate pointing by Curiosity
This image shows a globe of Mars with the locations of the four proposed landing sites noted in white font and the locations of prior landed missions in yellow font. Prior landed missions include: ...
Four Candidate Landing Sites
An image taken at the "Hidden Valley" site, en-route to Mount Sharp, by NASA's Curiosity rover.
Secrets of 'Hidden Valley' on Mars
This image, taken with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, shows a mesa within the "Murray Buttes" area on Mars showing a complex fracture pattern (black arrow) protrudi...
'Murray Buttes' Mesa
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