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Desolate Landscape
June 05, 2014
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This image contributed to an interpretation by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity science team that some of the bright particles on the ground near the rover are native Martian material.
Bright Particle of Martian Origin in Scoop Hole
The ChemCam instrument for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission uses a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size target, producing a flash of light from the ionized material -- plasma -- that ...
Viewing Spark Generated by ChemCam Laser for Mars Rover
On June 24, 2014, NASA's Curiosity rover completes her first Martian year (687 Earth days).
Curiosity Completes Its First Martian Year
This left-eye member of a stereo pair of images from the Navigation Camera (Navcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a full 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings at the site where it firs...
Mars View from 'John Klein' to Mount Sharp, Left Eye
Three Generations of NASA Mars Rovers
Newest is Biggest: Three Generations of NASA Mars Rovers
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity extended its robotic arm on Aug. 20, 2012, for the first time on Mars and used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) to capture this view of the extended arm.
Curiosity Extends Arm for First Time on Mars
The extended robotic arm of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity can be seen in this mosaic of full-resolution images from Curiosity's Navigation camera (Navcam). Curiosity extended its arm on Aug. 20, 2012.
Curiosity's First Arm Extension, Full Resolution
Test Model of Mars Landing Radar
Test Model of Mars Landing Radar
Follow along on a tour of the landing scene of NASA's Curiosity rover in this video made up of images from two NASA orbiters. The movie begins with a global image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, ...
Zooming in on the Scene of Curiosity's Landing
This map traces where NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drove between landing at a site subsequently named "Bradbury Landing," and the position reached during the mission's 123rd Martian day, or sol, (De...
Curiosity Traverse Map, Sol 123
This mosaic view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows textural characteristics and shapes of an outcrop called "Point Lake."
Puzzling 'Point Lake' Outcrop Revisited (Raw Color)
The plot on the left shows new results from the Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover.
Weighing Molecules on Mars
This graph shows the rise and fall of air and ground temperatures on Mars obtained by NASA's Curiosity rover.
Taking Mars' Temperature
This graphic portrays two hypotheses about how the element boron ended up in calcium sulfate veins found within mudstone layers of Mars' lower Mount Sharp.
Two Possible Ways Boron Got into Veins on Mount Sharp
This view of a Martian rock target called "Harrison" merges images from two cameras on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover to provide both color and microscopic detail.
Martian Rock 'Harrison' in Color, Showing Crystals (Annotated)
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
Close-up of Curiosity's Landing Region
Close-up of Curiosity's Landing Region
Results from Opportunity and Curiosity show Mars could have supported life.
Rover Fist Bump
The two bodies in this portion of an evening-sky view by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity are Earth and Earth's moon. The rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam) imaged them in the twilight sky of Curiosity's 529...
Curiosity Mars Rover's First Image of Earth and Earth's Moon
This image is from a series of test images to calibrate the 34-millimeter Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover. It was taken on Aug. 23, 2012 and looks south-southwest from the rover's landing site.
Focusing the 34-millimeter Mastcam
Preparation for Testing of Mars Landing Radar
Preparation for Testing of Mars Landing Radar
This image of NASA's Curiosity rover shows the location of the two components of the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons instrument.
Location of DAN on Curiosity
NASA's NEOWISE mission detected comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring on July 28, 2014, less than three months before this comet's close flyby of Mars on Oct. 19. This merging of multiple images presents t...
NEOWISE Spies Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring a Second Time
This map of Mars shows 4 possible landing sites for the Mars Science Laboratory. Aslo shown are the landing sites for past missions; Phoenix, Viking 1, Viking 2 Pathfinder, Opportunity and Spirit.
The Politics of Landing
Engineers put the rover through spin tests to ensure smooth sailing in space.
Building Curiosity: Going For A Spin
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