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June 05, 2014
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This image was taken by the left Navcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on June 18, 2019, the 2,440th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. It shows part of "Teal Ridge," which the rover has been stu...
Curiosity Explores 'Teal Ridge'
This stereo landscape scene from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows rows of rocks in the foreground and Mount Sharp on the horizon. It appears three dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses ...
Martian Landscape With Rock Rows and Mount Sharp (Stereo)
Scientists have now named the four marks near NASA's Curiosity rover where blasts from the descent stage rocket engines blew away some of the Martian surface material.
Naming the Scour Marks
A screen capture from NASA's new Experience Curiosity website shows the rover in the process of taking its own self-portrait.
Experience Curiosity Screen Capture
The suspension system on NASA Mars rover Curiosity easily accommodates rolling over a ramp in this Sept. 10, 2010, test drive inside the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Labora...
NASA's Next Mars Rover on a Test Drive
Engineers work on Opportunity (in its cruise configuration) in a cleanroom at Kennedy Space Center. A very important part of planetary protection is keeping contaminants from humans from riding abo...
Planetary Protection Technologies Opportunity at the Cape
This set of drawings depicts cross sections of the "Yellowknife Bay" area of Mars' Gale Crater at three points in time going back more than 80 million years (>80 Ma).
Scarp Retreat Model and Exposure History of 'Yellowknife Bay'
Sensors on two finger-like mini-booms extending horizontally from the mast of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will monitor wind speed, wind direction and air temperature.
Weather Sensors from Spain on Mars Rover Curiosity
Miyamoto Crater
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A wheel track cuts through a windblown ripple of dusty sand in this Nov. 7, 2014, image from the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity rover. The view spans about four feet across. This experiment was planne...
Ripple's Interior Exposed by Rover Wheel Track (Labeled)
This set of images shows a modern terrestrial analog to the "Yellowknife Bay" area that NASA's Curiosity rover is exploring.
An Earth Analog to Mars' Yellowknife Bay
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover imaged these drifting clouds on May 12, 2019, the 2,405th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, using its Navigation Cameras (Navcams).
Curiosity Sees Drifting Clouds Over Gale Crater
Women working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pose for a photo in mission control in honor of Women in Science Day.
Women in Science
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
Scientist Katie Stack Morgan examines rover images on her computer. Images, even 3-D stereo views, lack a natural sense of depth that human vision employs to understand spatial relationships.
Mission Scientist Examines Mars Images on Her Computer
The Curiosity engineering team created this view from images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover rear hazard avoidance cameras underneath the rover deck on Sol 0.
A View From Below the Rover Deck
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the exposures combined into this stereo view of a wee crater, informally named "Skylab," along the rover's route. The co...
Opportunity Beside a Small, Young Crater (Stereo)
This color panorama shows a 360-degree view of the landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover, including the highest part of Mount Sharp visible to the rover. That part of Mount Sharp is approximately ...
Landing Site Panorama, with the Heights of Mount Sharp
Data graphed here from the Chemistry and Camera (CheMin) instrument on NASA's Mars Curiosity rover show a difference between clay minerals in powder drilled from mudstone outcrops at two locations ...
Detecting a Difference in Clay Minerals at Two Gale Crater Sites
This head-on view shows the tip of the drill bit on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.
Drill Bit Tip on Mars Rover Curiosity, Head-on View
This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA's Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT).
Martian Surface Below Curiosity
Engineers test the first-of-its-kind landing system on NASA's next Mars rover.
Landing System Drop Test
Mars rover Curiosity, the centerpiece of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, is coming together for extensive testing prior to its late 2011 launch.
Mars rover Curiosity with Newly Installed Wheels
This 360-degree vista was acquired on Aug. 5, 2016, by the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as the rover neared features called "Murray Buttes" on lower Mount Sharp. The dark, flat-topped mes...
Rover's Panorama of Entrance to 'Murray Buttes' on Mars
This 3-D view of the calibration target for the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) aboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was assembled from two images taken by that camera during the 34th Martian day, or s...
3-D View of MAHLI Calibration Target
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