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June 05, 2014
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A sweeping panorama combining 33 telephoto images into one Martian vista presents details of several types of terrain visible on Mount Sharp from a location along the route of NASA's Curiosity Mars...
Diverse Terrain Types on Mount Sharp, Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover captured its highest-resolution panorama of the Martian surface between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 2019.
Curiosity's 1.8-Billion-Pixel Panorama
The four main pieces of hardware that arrived on Mars with NASA's Curiosity rover were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
Scene of a Martian Landing
The left eye of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took this image of the camera on the rover's arm, the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), during the 30th Martian day, or sol, of...
Camera on Curiosity's Arm as Seen by Camera on Mast
The "Bonanza King" rock on Mars, pictured here, was tapped by the drill belonging to NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.
Loose Rock Leads to Incomplete Drilling
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
Holden Crater
Holden Crater
In this season 4 finale, Gentry Lee and Rob Manning reveal how surprises, hidden flaws, and uncertainties have always been a part of rovers and the exploration of Mars.
Secrets of the Mars Rovers
Download a PDF of the Mars Science Laboratory Launch Press Kit.
Mars Science Laboratory Launch Press Kit
These two signature microchips (circled in red) carry 1.2 million names submitted from the public.
Signature Chips on Mars
At Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, an overhead crane will be used to lift the Centaur upper stage for the United Launch Alliance Atlas V into the Vertical Integrat...
Centaur Upper Stage Rocket Arrives at KSC
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Atlas V rocket's payload fairing containing the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft stands securely a...
Transporting Fairing to Launch Pad
A viewpoint on "Vera Rubin Ridge" provided NASA's Curiosity Mars rover this detailed look back over the area where it began its mission inside Gale Crater, plus more-distant features of the crater....
Telephoto Vista from Ridge in Mars' Gale Crater
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
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
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
This video (part 2 of a 4 part series) shows engineers testing a new parachute in the largest wind tunnel on Earth for the Curiosity rover, prior to its landing on Mars in August 2012.
The Martians: Testing Curiosity's Parachute - Part 2
The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument, largest of the 10 science instruments for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, will examine samples of Martian rocks, soil and atmosphere for inform...
Lowering SAM Instrument into Curiosity Mars Rover
Curiosity rover obtains the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet.
Curiosity Collects First Rock Sample on Mars
This scene combines images taken by the left-eye camera of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover during the midafternoon, local Mars solar time, of the mission's 526th...
Curiosity Mars Rover Approaches 'Dingo Gap,' Mastcam View
This full-resolution color image from NASA's Curiosity Rover shows the gravel-covered surface of Mars. It was taken by the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) several minutes after Curiosity touched down o...
Gravel-Covered Martian Surface
This panorama from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover was taken on Dec. 19 (Sol 2265). The rover's last drill location on Vera Rubin Ridge is visible, as well as the clay regi...
Curiosity's 360 Panorama of 'Rock Hall'
Clara Ma, winner of the Mars Science Laboratory naming contest.
Winner Of Name the Rover
This image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the open inlet where powdered rock and soil samples will be funneled down for analysis.
Say 'Ahh' on Mars
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
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