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The yellow triangles on this graph indicate concentrations of the elements titanium and silicon in selected rock targets with high silica content analyzed by the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (...
Silicon and Titanium Correlation in Selected Rocks at Gale Crater, Mars
This image shows the target landing area for Curiosity, the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Destination for Mars Rover Curiosity
NASA’s Curiosity rover captured this image of rhythmic rock layers with a repetitive pattern in their spacing and thickness. Providing yet another clue to Mars’ ancient past, the pattern might have...
Curiosity Views Rhythmic Rock Layers
This is the first image taken by the Navigation cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover. It shows the shadow of the rover's now-upright mast in the center, and the arm's shadow at left. The arm itself ca...
Curiosity Looks Away from the Sun
NASA has selected Gale crater as the landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Gale Crater: Future Home of Mars Rover Curiosity (Unannotated)
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 597 Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (April 11, 2014).
Curiosity's Traverse Map Through Sol 597
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)
In the fourth season of “On a Mission” we’ll be transported to the Red Planet with all five of NASA’s Mars rovers.
Preview: Mars Rovers
This March 25, 2014, view from the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover looks southward at the Kimberley waypoint. In the foreground, multiple sandstone beds show systematic inclination to the so...
Bedding Pattern Interpreted as Martian Delta Deposition
This close-up view shows darkened radial jets caused by the impact of Curiosity's sky crane, which helped deliver the rover to the surface of Mars.
Signs of the Sky Crane's Impact
This image shows the wall of a scuffmark NASA's Curiosity made in a windblown ripple of Martian sand with its wheel.
High-Resolution View of Cross-Section Through a Mars Ripple
This April 10, 2015, view from the Navigation Camera on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the terrain ahead of the rover as it makes its way westward through a valley called "Artist's Drive."
Curiosity View Ahead Through 'Artist's Drive'
This image from Curiosity's Mastcam shows inclined beds of sandstone interpreted as the deposits of small deltas fed by rivers flowing down from the Gale Crater rim and building out into a lake whe...
Inclined Martian Sandstone Beds Near 'Kimberley'
This oblique view of Gale crater shows the landing site and the mound of layered rocks that NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will investigate.
Canyons on Mountain Inside Gale Crater
Meet some of the women team members and hear about the exciting and challenging jobs they do in science and engineering while working with Mars rover Curiosity.
Women Working On Mars: Erisa Hines
This picture features some of the women working on the Curiosity rover, taken in the "Mars Yard," a simulated martian landscape right here at JPL.
Meet Many of the Women of Mars!
Here is a rover's eye view of driving, scooping and drilling during Curiosity's first year on Mars, August 2012 through July 2013. (No audio)
Twelve Months in Two Minutes; Curiosity's First Year on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover spotted these finger-like rocks with its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on May 15, 2022. These likely formed as groundwater trickled through rock in the ancient past, depositi...
Curiosity Spots Finger-Like Rocks
This set of images compares the Link outcrop of rocks on Mars (left) with similar rocks seen on Earth (right).
Rock Outcrops on Mars and Earth
This movie shows the first 360-degree panorama in color of the Gale Crater landing site taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. It was made from thumbnail versions of images taken by the Mast Camera. (No ...
Curiosity's First Low-Resolution Color Panorama
The sensor head on the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer instrument was installed during testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The instrument is part of the Curiosity rover, which will fly o...
Sensor head on the Mars-bound APXS Instrument
NASA rover makes first big maneuver en route to August rendezvous with Mars.
Curiosity Tweaks Course to Mars
Mars is experiencing large regional dust storms over its northern hemisphere during the past week.
The Martian Dust Storm of June 2018
Technicians, at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, use an overhead crane to move NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, known as Curiosity, to ...
Deployment Testing
This artist's animation shows how orbiters over Mars will monitor the landing of NASA's Curiosity rover. (No audio)
Great Convergence of Spacecraft around Mars
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