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This portion of an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been annotated to show the relative positions between NASA's Curiosit...
Inspecting Curiosity's Descent Stage Crash Site
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
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity appears as a bluish dot near the lower right corner of this enhanced-color view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on...
View From Mars Orbiter Showing Curiosity Rover at 'Shaler'
This artist's impression Mars' Gale Crater depicts a cross section through the mountain in the middle of the crater, from a viewpoint looking toward the southeast.
Cross Section of Gale Crater, Mars
The 70m antenna at Goldstone, California against the background of the Mojave desert.
Goldstone Antenna
This stereo view from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a rock called "Link," which bears rounded pebbles that provide evidence about vigorous flow of water in a stream on ancient Mars.
Evidence About a Martian Streambed (Stereo)
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.
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This pair of images taken a few minutes apart show how laser firing by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity removes dust from the surface of a rock.
Curiosity's ChemCam Removes Dust
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of this scene at two times of day. Blue, orange, and green color was added to a combination of both pano...
A Picture Postcard From Curiosity's Navcams
This is a view of the third (left) and fourth (right) trenches made by the 1.6-inch-wide (4-centimeter-wide) scoop on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity in October 2012.
Scoop Marks in the Sand at 'Rocknest'
Two spacecraft engineers join a grouping of vehicles providing a comparison of three generations of Mars rovers developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The setting is JPL's ...
Three Generations of Rovers with Crouching Engineers
This graphic compares the radiation dose equivalent for several types of experiences, including a calculation for a trip from Earth to Mars based on measurements made by the Radiation Assessment De...
Comparison of Some Radiation Exposures to Mars-Trip Level
Scientists get closer to selecting a landing site for the Curiosity rover.
Challenges of Getting to Mars: Selecting a Landing Site
Chile's Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth -- and a ready analog for Mars' rugged, arid terrain.
Atacama Landscape
Stitched together from 116 images, this view captured by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the path it will take in the summer of 2020 as it drives toward the next region it will be investigating, ...
Curiosity's Path to the 'Sulfate-Bearing Unit'
The rim of Gale Crater is visible in the distance, through the dusty haze, in this Curiosity view of a sloping hillside on Mount Sharp
Farewell to Murray Buttes (Image 1)
This set of images illustrates how the science filters of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity can be used to investigate aspects of the composition and mineralogy of materials ...
Comparing Mastcam and Laboratory Spectra
The Curiosity rover has taught us a lot about the history of Mars and its potential to support life. Take a tour of its landing site, Gale Crater.
A Guide to Gale Crater
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and tracks left by its driving appear in this portion of a Dec. 11, 2013, observation by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Re...
Curiosity Trekking, Viewed from Orbit in December 2013
The mesa in the center of this scene from the "Murray Buttes" area on Mars is longer than a football field. The panorama combines images taken by the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Aug. ...
Cluster of Martian Mesas on Lower Mount Sharp, Sols 1438 and 1439
A History of Exobiology and Astrobiology at NASA
Curiosity Chronicles: Astrobiology
Essay Winner's Signature on NASA's Curiosity Rover
Essay Winner's Signature on NASA's Curiosity Rover
NASA Curiosity flight director David Oh updates us on the rover and his family's experience on Mars time.
Living on Mars Time
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a sulfate-bearing region using its Mastcam on May 2, 2022, the 3,462nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Dark boulders seen near the center are ...
Curiosity's View of Sulfate-Bearing Region and Streambed Rocks
This movie clip shows the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, passing in front of the smaller Martian moon, Deimos, as observed by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.
Two Moons Passing in the Martian Night
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