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June 05, 2014
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The mesa in the center of this scene from the "Murray Buttes" area on Mars is longer than a football field. The panorama combines images taken by the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Aug. ...
Cluster of Martian Mesas on Lower Mount Sharp, Sols 1438 and 1439
This Picasso-like self portrait of NASA's Curiosity rover was taken by its Navigation cameras, located on the now-upright mast.
Rover's Self Portrait
Preparation for Testing of Mars Landing Radar
Preparation for Testing of Mars Landing Radar
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 29th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Sept. 4, 2012).
Curiosity Traverse Map Through Sol 29
This Jan. 19, 2016, self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at "Namib Dune," where the rover's activities included scuffing into the dune with a wheel and scooping samples of...
Curiosity Self-Portrait at Martian Sand Dune
Wheels were first attached to NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover in August 2008.
Next NASA Mars Rover Gets Its Wheels
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
An area inside Gale crater was selected as the landing site for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Gale Crater, the Selected Landing Site for Curiosity
This annotated artists' concept shows the location of all of the Curiosity rover's 17 cameras.
Annotated Image of Curiosity Rover and all of its Cameras
This graph shows the ratio of concentrations of several elements in four different pairs of targets examined by Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) instruments on NASA Mars rovers Curiosity an...
Alteration Effects at Gale and Gusev Craters
This view combines several frames taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, looking into a valley to the west from the eastern side of a dune at the eastern end of the valley.
Martian Valley May Be Curiosity's Route (White-Balanced, Annotated)
The team responsible for the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite on NASA's Curiosity rover has made the first definitive detection of organic molecules at Mars.
NASA Goddard Instrument Makes First Detection of Organic Matter on Mars
This image show the MSL BUD team
"Hanging Six" on Mars
Two instruments at the end of the robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will use calibration targets attached to a shoulder joint of the arm.
Contact Instrument Calibration Targets on Mars Rover Curiosity
This charged couple device (CCD) is part of the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover.
Detector for CheMin
Engineers just installed six new wheels on the Curiosity rover, and rotated all six wheels at once on July 9, 2010.
Curiosity Spins Its Wheels
This computer-generated view depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater beginning to catch morning light.
Daybreak at Gale Crater
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 997 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (May, 27, 2015).
Curiosity Rover's Location for Sol 997
This view of the two moons of Mars comes from a set of images taken by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity as the larger moon, Phobos, passed in front of the smaller one, Deimos, from Curiosity's perspecti...
Two Moons of Mars in One Enhanced View
Onlookers watch as Scarecrow, a mobility-testing model for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, easily conquers boulders in the Mars Yard testing area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Shutterbugs Shoot "Scarecrow"
This scene shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover at a location called "Windjana," where the rover found rocks containing manganese-oxide minerals, which require abundant water and strongly oxidizing co...
NASA's Curiosity at Site of Clues About Ancient Oxygen
The highest concentration of boron measured on Mars, as of late 2016, is in this mineral vein examined with the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover on Aug, 25, 2016. Orange bars indicate b...
Boron in Calcium Sulfate Vein at 'Catabola,' Mars
The 2013 list of the 100 most influential people named by TIME Magazine includes three men from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Three JPLers Named Among the 'Most Influential'
Wispy clouds float across the Martian sky in this accelerated sequence of early-morning images taken on July 17, 2017, by the Navcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
Clouds Sailing Overhead on Mars, Unenhanced
This kickoff of a new Mars video series covers Opportunity's 14th anniversary on the Red Planet, Curiosity's spectacular panorama and ice deposits spotted by an orbiter.
Mars Report: January 2018
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover mission is complete after 15 years on Mars. Opportunity's record-breaking exploration laid the groundwork for future missions to the Red Planet.
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In deploying its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, the lander completes a major mission milestone.
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