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Mawrth Vallis was considered as a landing site for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
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Illustrations of NASA's Curiosity and Mars 2020 rovers. While the newest rover borrows from Curiosity's design, each has its own role in the ongoing exploration of Mars and the search for ancient l...
Side-by-Side: Curiosity and Mars 2020
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians assist as the payload fairing of an Atlas V rocket approaches a transporter for the move to Space ...
Technicians Prepare to Move Payload Fairing
This image shows two engineers aiming the cannon that will fire the tightly packed parachute into the wind tunnel.
No Speed Limit on Mars
Goddard scientist Jennifer Eigenbrode injected a chemical into a rock sample and then heated the test tube to determine whether the sample-preparation method preserved the sample's molecular struct...
Scientist Jennifer Eigenbrode injecting a chemical into a rock sample
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 shows the location of the 150-micrometer sieve screen on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, a device used to remove larger particles from samples before delivery to science instruments.
Sifting Martian Samples
This Dec. 17, 2015, view combines multiple images from the telephoto-lens camera of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover to reveal fine details of the downwind face of "Namib Du...
Mastcam Telephoto of a Martian Dune's Downwind Face
This image of an outcrop at the "Sheepbed" locality, taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover with its right Mast Camera (Mastcam), shows well-defined veins filled with whitish minerals, interpreted as...
Veins in 'Sheepbed' Outcrop (Unannotated)
This global map of Mars was acquired on Aug. 4, 2012, by the Mars Color Imager instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Mars Weather Map, Aug. 4
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 56th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Oct. 2, 2012).
Curiosity's Travels Through Sol 56
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, known as Curiosity, is being prepared to be moved to a rotation fi...
Curiosity's Backshell
Sample material from the fourth scoop of Martian soil collected by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is on the rover's observation tray in this image taken during the mission's 78th Martian day, or sol, ...
Scooped Material on Rover's Observation Tray
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
A close-up image of a 2-inch-deep hole produced using a new drilling technique for NASA's Curiosity rover. The hole is about 0.6 inches across (1.6 centimeters). This image was taken by Curiosity's...
Curiosity Successfully Drills "Duluth"
The two main parts of the ChemCam laser instrument for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission are shown in this combined image.
Body and Mast Units of ChemCam Instrument for Mars Rover
The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was used to check the composition of gray tailings from the hole in rock target "Cumberland" that the rover drilled on M...
Drilled Hole and ChemCam Marks at 'Cumberland'
The 16 frames in this time-lapse movie show how repeated laser shots from the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity cause a pit to form at the target point in Mar...
Pitting in Martian Soil During Repeated Laser Shots From Mars Rover
Members of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover mission team photographed themselves on March 20, 2020, the first day the entire mission team worked remotely from home.
Curiosity's Team Teleworks
The first stage of the Atlas V rocket for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission rolls out of the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida bound for ...
Atlas V Rocket Heads to Launch Pad
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)
The Space Flight Operations Center, a National Historic Landmark, has been operational and staffed every day since 1964. Here engineers send and receive commands for any spacecraft in, and beyond,...
Space Flight Operations Facility at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Thick stacks of clay minerals indicate chemical alteration of thick stacks of rock by interaction with liquid water on ancient Mars.
Chemical Alteration by Water, Mawrth Vallis
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
This image from NASA's Curiosity rover looks south of the rover's landing site on Mars towards Mount Sharp.
Destination Mount Sharp
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