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At Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers guide an overhead crane as it lifts the Centaur upper stage for the United Launch Alliance Atlas V in the Vertical Integ...
Centaur at Pad 41
These images from the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show several impact scars on Mars made by pieces of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft that the spacecraft shed just before entering ...
Impact Scars from MSL Cruise Stage and Two Balance Weights (Figure 3)
This animation shows NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying over NASA's Curiosity (shown in pink) as the rover lands on the Red Planet. The video is slowed down as the orbiter approaches the lan...
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Flying Over Mars
This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a site with a network of prominent mineral veins below a cap rock ridge on lower Mount Sharp.
Veiny 'Garden City' Site and Surroundings on Mount Sharp, Mars
This stereo view of terrestrial rocks combines two images taken by a testing twin of the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory. It appears three-dimensional when vi...
Test Image of Earth Rocks by Mars Camera (Stereo)
Parachute Opening During Tests for Mars Science Laboratory
Parachute Opening During Tests for Mars Science Laboratory
This image shows a close-up of track marks left by NASA's Curiosity rover.
Curiosity Tracks Its Tracks
This May 22, 2015, view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) in NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the "Marias Pass" area where a lower and older geological unit of mudstone -- the pale zone in the center...
'Marias Pass,' Contact Zone of Two Martian Rock Units
Since landing on Mars in August 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring 3-mile-high Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater.
Curiosity: 10 Years of Martian Mountain Climbing
This chart graphs measurements made by the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity against the distance the rover has driven, in meters.
Variations of DAN measurements along Curiosity traverse
The NASA Mars rover Curiosity used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) during the mission's 120th Martian day, or sol (Dec. 7, 2012), to record the seven images combined into this panoramic view.
Sol 120 Panorama from Curiosity, near 'Shaler'
The percussion drill in the turret of tools at the end of the robotic arm of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been positioned in contact with the rock surface in this image from the rover's front Ha...
Curiosity's Drill in Place for Load Testing Before Drilling
What’s the latest news from Mars? NASA’s InSight lander and MarCO CubeSats are on their way to the Red Planet, a tiny helicopter will hitch a ride with the Mars 2020 rover mission, and Curiosity’s ...
Mars Report: May 2018
This patch of bedrock, called "Cumberland," has been selected as the second target for drilling by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.
'Cumberland' Target for Drilling by Curiosity Mars Rover
In this image, the Mars Science Laboratory Project Science Group, consisting of 11 men and 1 woman, are climbing up a dusty trail in New Mexico. Wearing casual hiking clothes and hats, they are cli...
Mars Science Laboratory's Lead Scientists Hike up a Hill in New Mexico
This simulation shows the first test drive of NASA's Curiosity rover. This tool, called the Rover Sequencing and Visualization Program (RSVP) helps engineers plan the rover's drives, modeling pebbl...
Planning Curiosity's First Test Drive
These three versions of the same image taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity illustrate different choices that scientists can make in presenting the colors recorded by t...
'Raw,' 'Natural' and 'White-Balanced' Views of Martian Terrain
This diagram shows the location of each of the Curiosity Rover's ten science instruments.
Diagram of Curiosity Rover Instruments
This oblique view of the mound in Gale Crater shows several different rock types of interest to the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Rock Types in Gale Crater, Annotated
This image shows the landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover and destinations scientists want to investigate.
Glenelg Intrigue
A section of the Mars Science Laboratory's Gale Crater landing site is shown, with a representative path from the landing location toward the layered mound to the south.
Studying a Wider Swath
The landing site for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was chosen for giving the mission access to examine the lower layers of a mountain inside Gale Crater.
'Mount Sharp' on Mars Compared to Three Big Mountains on Earth
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used two cameras to create this selfie in front of Mont Mercou, a rock outcrop that stands 20 feet (6 meters) tall. The panorama is made up of 60 images from the MAHLI c...
Curiosity's Selfie at Mont Mercou
Using the navigation cameras on its mast, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took these images of clouds just after sunset on March 31, 2021, the 3,075th sol, or Martian day, of the mission.
Curiosity Navigation Cameras Spot Twilight Clouds on Sol 3075
Curiosity revealed a lot about Mars in her first year exploring Gale Crater. Learn more about some of her remarkable discoveries in this video from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Curiosity: A Year of Discovery
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