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Artist concept of Glaciers on Mars
November 20, 2008
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Dark, narrow streaks on Martian slopes such as these at Hale Crater are inferred to have been formed by seasonal flow of water on contemporary Mars. Detection of hydrated salts at the streaks suppo...
Recurring 'Lineae' on Slopes at Hale Crater, Mars
This March 20, 2014, image from the MARCI camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a dark spot (at center of inscribed rectangle) noticed while the image was being examined for a weather re...
Impact Scar Detected in Mars Weathercam Image (Unannotated)
MRO took this image of layered, sedimentary rocks on the floor of an impact crater north of Eberswalde Crater. Billions of years ago there may have been a lake in this crater.
Sedimentary Rock Layers on a Crater Floor
Sand dunes are among the most widespread wind-formed (aeolian) features present on Mars.
Dune Composition (3-D)
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera would make a great backyard telescope for viewing Mars, and we can also use it at Mars to view other planets. This is an image of Eart...
Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars
This image features an exhumed crater in Meridiani Planum, an equatorial region where the rover Opportunity has been exploring the Martian surface since January 2004. An exhumed crater is one that ...
Crater in Meridiani Planum (2.3 N, 356.6 W) [3-D]
NASA's Curiosity rover and its parachute were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as Curiosity descended to the surface on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT).
Curiosity Spotted on Parachute by Orbiter
This view taken from orbit around Mars shows the sand dune that will be the first to be visited by NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover along its route to higher layers of Mount Sharp.
Orbital View of Dune That Curiosity Will Visit
On this map of Mars, areas indicated in green are where spectrometers on spacecraft orbiting Mars have detected clay minerals and areas indicated in blue are where those spectrometers have detected...
Regions of Mars with Clays and Hydrated Minerals Identified from Orbit
This April 6, 2014, image from the Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was taken as a follow-up to discovery of a possible 2012 impact scar in images from the orbiter's Mars Color ...
Fresh Mars Crater Confirmed Within Impact Scar
These images from orbit show an area near Mars' south pole where coalescing or elongated pits are interpreted as signs that an underlying deposit of frozen carbon dioxide, or "dry ice," has been sh...
Pitting from Sublimation of Underlying Dry-Ice Layer
This "ring trough" or eroded pit crater, is located in the rugged southern highland terrain known as Noachis Terra. The HiRISE image shows the layered, boulder-rich wall rock facing to the northeas...
Gullies on Southwest Slope of Ring Trough in Noachis Terra
Back-and-forth blinking of this two-image animation shows movement of ripples covering a sand dune on Mars.
Ripple Movement on Sand Dune in Nili Patera, Mars
Artist's concept of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
MRO Artist Concept
Stages in the seasonal disappearance of surface ice from the ground around the Phoenix Mars Lander are visible in these images taken on Feb. 8, 2010, (left) and Feb. 25, 2010, during springtime on ...
Ice Around Phoenix Lander Continues to Lessen in Spring
Light-Toned Bedrock Along Cracks as Evidence of Fluid Alteration.
NASA Mars Orbiter Sees Effects of Ancient Underground Fluids
This colorful image acquired on May 21, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows clays within the Eridania basin region. A large lake may have once existed here.
Clays in the Eridania Basin
This animation demonstrates the salty ponds and streams that scientists think may have been left behind as Gale Crater dried out over time. The bottom of the image is the floor of Gale Crater, with...
Sutton Island Model of Drying Lakes
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
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this image of the Opportunity rover on the southwest rim of "Santa Maria" crater on New...
Mars Orbiter Sees Rover Opportunity at Crater Edge (Annotated)
Sand dunes are among the most widespread aeolian features present on Mars. Their spatial distribution and morphology are sensitive to subtle shifts in wind circulation patterns and wind strengths. ...
Millipedes of Mars
The yellow-white cloud in the bottom-center of this image is a Mars "dust tower" — a concentrated cloud of dust that can be lofted dozens of miles above the surface. The blue-white plumes are water...
A Mars Dust Tower Stands Out
These two images show Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument data from two tracks in a part of Mars' Utopia Planitia region where the orbiting, ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orb...
Radargrams Indicating Ice-Rich Subsurface Deposit
This map shows the frequency of carbon dioxide frost's presence at sunrise on Mars, as a percentage of days year-round. Carbon dioxide ice more often covers the ground at night in some mid-latitude...
Where on Mars Does Carbon Dioxide Frost Form Often?
The insert in this image is a simulation of what the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's optical navigation camera images of the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos will look like.
Phobos and Deimos, Prepare to Say 'Cheese!'
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