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June 05, 2014
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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
Recent small craters discovered by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter expose buried ice in the middle latitudes of Mars.
Fresh Crater Revealing Buried Ice
On June 24, 2014, NASA's Curiosity rover completes her first Martian year (687 Earth days).
Curiosity Completes Its First Martian Year
This rock encountered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is an iron meteorite called "Lebanon," similar in shape and luster to iron meteorites found on Mars by the previous generation of rovers, Spirit...
Curiosity Finds Iron Meteorite on Mars
These three versions of the same image taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity illustrate different choices that scientists can make in presenting the colors recorded by t...
'Raw,' 'Natural' and 'White-Balanced' Views of Martian Terrain
This is a closeup view of the wheels on the Scarecrow mobility rover. Scarecrow is Curiosity's test double that engineers use for testing such as this drive over dunes in the Dumont Dunes in Calif...
Scarecrow Rover Wheel Closeup
During final stacking of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, the heat shield is positioned for integration with the rest of the spacecraft in this photograph from inside the Payload Hazardou...
Mars Science Laboratory Heat Shield Integration for Flight
John Grotzinger is standing at the face of a cliff and in discussion with two other team members. The cliff, which is beige and gray in color, has many layers in the rocks. Ken Edgett, wearing a ba...
Mars Science Laboratory's Project Scientist Discusses Lakebed Sediments
This video clip shows moments during a demonstration of drilling into a rock at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., with a test double of the Mars rover Curiosity. The drill combine...
Video Clip of a Rover Rock-Drilling Demonstration at JPL
The hills and troughs in this little valley, carved between a ridge and cliffs higher up Mount Sharp, almost look like undulating waves. The Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover cap...
Curiosity Sees 'Waves' in the Clay Unit
This close-up image shows the first target NASA's Curiosity rover aims to zap with its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument.
Curiosity's First Rock Star, Up-Close UNANNOTATED
Artist concept of Mars Science Laboratory Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Artist concept of Mars Science Laboratory
This image shows fine sand from Mars that was filtered by NASA's Curiosity rover as part of its first "decontamination" exercise.
Sand Filtered through Curiosity's Sieve
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) to capture this view partway back down a slope it climbed toward "Marias Pass" on lower Mount Sharp. The image was taken May 22, 2015...
Area with Silica-Rich Target Near 'Marias Pass' on Mars
This is the left-eye member of a stereo pair of images of the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, Curiosity.
Mars Science Laboratory Mission's Curiosity Rover (Left Eye of Stereo)
This map shows the path on Mars of NASA's Curiosity rover toward Glenelg, an area where three terrains of scientific interest converge.
Curiosity's Roadside Discoveries
Peter C. Theisinger served as the first project manager of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Pete Theisinger
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.The images used for the panorama were taken...
A Landing Site with a View
This map shows the location of "Cumberland," the second rock-drilling target for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, in relation to the rover's first drilling target, "John Klein," within the southwestern...
'Cumberland' Selected as Curiosity's Second Drilling Target
NASA's Curiosity rover dusts off a rock on Mars for the first time.
Curiosity Rover Gives Mars the Brush-Off
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
This mosaic image with a close-up inset, taken prior to the test, shows the rock chosen as the first target for NASA's Curiosity rover to zap with its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument.
'Coronation' Rock on Mars
Like a human working in a radiation environment, NASA's Curiosity rover carries its own version of a dosimeter to measure radiation from outer space and the sun.
Curiosity's First Radiation Measurements on Mars
The robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity delivered a sample of Martian soil to the rover's observation tray for the first time during the mission's 70th Martian day, or sol (Oct. 16, 2012)
First Sample Placed on Curiosity's Observation Tray
Musician will.i.am addresses a crowd of students at JPL during an event celebrating the first time in history that a recorded song has been beamed back to Earth from another planet.
The Song Heard Around the World and Beyond
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