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June 05, 2014
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Soar over the crater on Mars that will be the landing site for NASA's Curiosity rover.
Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site: Gale Crater
A ceremonial ribbon is cut for the opening of new "Destination: Mars" experience at the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex in Florida.
Ribbon Cutting
This panorama of the landscape surrounding NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on July 31, 2014, offers a view into sandy lower terrain called "Hidden Valley," which is on the planned route ahead.
Curiosity's 360-Degree View Before Entering 'Hidden Valley'
This map shows the route on lower Mount Sharp that NASA's Curiosity followed in April and early May 2015, in the context of the surrounding terrain. Numbers along the route identify the sol, or Ma...
Curiosity's Path to Some Spring 2015 Study Sites
Engineers and technicians have been planning for months and working for weeks on the big move for NASA's Mars Curiosity rover.
The Big Move for Next Mars Rover
Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, along with the mission's descent stage, arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on June 22, 2011, aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 transpor...
Mars Science Laboratory Arrival in Florida
This May 25, 2015, view from the Curiosity rover's Mastcam shows a site where two different types of bedrock meet near "Marias Pass" on Mount Sharp. Pale mudstone in the foreground is like bedrock ...
Geological Contact Zone Near 'Marias Pass' on Mars
This set of images shows the movement of the rear right wheel of NASA's Curiosity as rover drivers turned the wheels in place at the landing site on Mars.
Wiggle in the Gravel
This is an artist's concept of the rover and descent stage for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft during the final minute before the rover, Curiosity, touches down on the surface of Mars.
Curiosity and Descent Stage, Artist's Concept
This stereo image from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a rock outcrop called "Hottah," cited as evidence for vigorous flow of water in a long-ago Martian stream. The ...
Martian Streambed Evidence Rock in 3-D
On Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the 197-foot-tall United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is backdropped by a bright blue sky as the vehicle rolls from the Vertical Integration Facili...
Rolling to Pad
This mosaic shows various scenes captured from a location called "Housedon Hill" by the ChemCam instrument aboard NASA's Curiosity Mars rover between September 9 and October 23, 2020 (Sols 2878 and...
ChemCam's "Housedon Hill" Panorama
This graph compares a typical daily pattern of changing atmospheric pressure (blue) with the pattern during a regional dust storm hundreds of miles away (red).
Atmospheric Pressure Patterns Before and During Dust Storm
This image show the MSL BUD team
"Hanging Six" on Mars
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'
This close-up view of "Tintina" was taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on Sol 160 (Jan. 17, 2013) and shows interesting linear textures in the bright white material on the rock.
Close-up View of Broken Mars Rock 'Tintina'
This image shows the first holes drilled by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity at Mount Sharp.
'Confidence Hills' - The First Mount Sharp Drilling Site
Under the watchful eyes of technicians at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an overhead crane lowers a rocket-powered descent stage over NASA's Mar...
Descent Stage Meets Rover!
Mastcam 100: Longer Focal-Length Eye of Mast Camera Pair for Mars Rover
Mastcam 100: Longer Focal-Length Eye of Mast Camera Pair for Mars Rover
On the 84th and 85th Martian days of the NASA Mars rover Curiosity's mission on Mars (Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2012), NASA's Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture dozens of h...
Curiosity Self-Portrait, Wide View
Patches of Martian sandstone visible in the lower-left and upper portions of this view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover have a knobbly texture due to nodules apparently...
Knobbly Textured Sandstone on Mount Sharp, Mars
Clay minerals are composed of layers. Water and cations (positive-charged ions) can be stored between these layers.
Clay Mineral Structure Similar to Clays Observed in Mudstone on Mars
The leader of the entry, descent and landing team of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project, Adam Steltzner of JPL (left), accepts the 2013 Trophy for Current Achievement from the Smithsonian Natio...
National Air and Space Museum Trophy for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory
The image, at lower left, is annotated to show where the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took measurement on a rock outcrop (Spot 39) and on loose soil (S...
Variation in Subsurface Water In 'Yellowknife Bay'
Three Generations of NASA Mars Rovers
Newest is Biggest: Three Generations of NASA Mars Rovers
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