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June 05, 2014
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The network of cracks in this Martian rock slab called "Old Soaker" may have formed from the drying of a mud layer more than 3 billion years ago.
"Old Soaker"
This graphic maps locations of the sites where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover collected its first 19 rock or soil samples for laboratory analysis inside the vehicle. It also presents images of the dri...
Curiosity's Rock or Soil Sampling Sites on Mars, Through November 2016
This graph shows readings for atmospheric pressure at the landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover.
First Pressure Readings on Mars
This image maps the traverse of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity from "Bradbury Landing" to "Yellowknife Bay," with an inset documenting a change in the ground's thermal properties with arrival at a dif...
Curiosity's Traverse into Different Terrain (Sol 121)
This close-up view shows Curiosity's heat shield, which helped the rover survive the harrowing journey through the Martian atmosphere, on the surface of Mars.
Final Resting Spot for Curiosity's Heat Shield
The left side of this 360-degree panorama from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the long rows of ripples on a linear shaped dune in the Bagnold Dune Field on the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp....
Full-Circle Vista With a Linear Shaped Martian Sand Dune
Decades of work preparing a miniaturized laboratory for identifying minerals on Mars have also yielded spinoff versions with diverse applications on Earth and, possibly, the moon.
Laboratory-in-a-Box Has Uses on Mars, Earth, Elsewhere
The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover monitors high-energy atomic and subatomic particles coming from the sun, distant supernovae and other sources.
Sources of Ionizing Radiation in Interplanetary Space
This animation shows the position of NASA's Curiosity rover as it journeyed through "the clay-bearing unit" on Mars between May 31 and July 20, 2019. The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance...
HiRISE Watches Curiosity Journey Across the Clay Unit
This panorama of a location called "Teal Ridge" was captured on Mars by the Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on NASA's Curiosity rover on June 18, 2019, the 2,440th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
Curiosity Surveys 'Teal Ridge'
With NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft sealed inside its payload fairing, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rides a tall pillar of smoke and flames as it soars over Space Laun...
Atlas V In The Sky
A narrated play-by-play of Curiosity's entry, descent, and landing on Mars!
Next Mars Rover in Action
This pair of images shows effects of one Martian day of wind blowing sand underneath NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on a non-driving day for the rover. Each image was taken just after sundown by the r...
Sand Moving Under Curiosity, One Day to Next
This mosaic of images from Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam) shows geological members of the Yellowknife Bay formation, and the sites where Curiosity drilled into the lowest-lying member, called Sh...
View of Yellowknife Bay Formation, with Drilling Sites (Unannotated)
This image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the great diversity of grains found on the surface of a Martian rock.
Texture of 'Gillespie Lake' Rock (Unannotated)
This side-by-side comparison shows the X-ray diffraction patterns of two different samples collected from rocks on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.
Signature of Hematite in 'Confidence Hills' Martian Rock (Labeled)
An etched version of Leonardo da Vinci's self-portrait on the Microchip to be placed aboard NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover.
Leonardo da Vinci's Self-Portrait
Arm and Mast of NASA Mars Rover Curiosity
Arm and Mast of NASA Mars Rover Curiosity
NASA Curiosity flight director David Oh updates us on the rover and his family's experience on Mars time.
Living on Mars Time
Aaron Yazzie and others explain how, by scooping dirt and drilling rocks, rovers are digging deeper into the mysteries of Mars.
Digging In: When Rovers Get Dirt on Mars
At the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers uncover half of the Atlas V payload fairing for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, encased ...
Payload Fairing Arrives at KSC
This artist's concept depicts the rover Curiosity, of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, as it uses its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument to investigate the composition of a rock surface.
Curiosity at Work on Mars (Artist's Concept)
The Atlas V first stage to support the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is positioned inside the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The Rocket Arrives
Getting a head start on summer, Curiosity is planning a road trip to Logan's Pass on Mars. Just like Earthlings, the rover relies on a highway map and takes scenic detours along the way.
Rover Road Trip
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sections of an Atlas V rocket payload fairing engulf NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) as they close in aro...
Getting Into the Fairing
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