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Artist concept of Glaciers on Mars
November 20, 2008
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover can be seen at the "Pahrump Hills" area of Gale Crater in this view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orb...
Curiosity Rover at 'Pahrump Hills'
This image from the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an impact scar on Mars made by pieces of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft that the spacecraft shed just before entering the Mar...
Impact Scars from MSL Cruise Stage and Two Balance Weights (Figure 2)
This view of a portion of the Eridania region of Mars shows blocks of deep-basin deposits that have been surrounded and partially buried by younger volcanic deposits. The image was taken by the Con...
Possible Floor of an Ancient Martian Sea
CRISM observations of this region of the Noctis Labyrinthus formation have shown indications of iron-bearing sulfates and phyllosilicate (clay) minerals.
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This annotated image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a bright feature interpreted as the United Kingdom's Beagle 2 Lander, which was never heard from after its expected Dec. 25, 2003,...
Beagle 2 Lander Observed by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
This scene shows dark sand dunes marching over the ridges created by an alluvial (water-deposited) fan in an impact crater.
Dunes on Ridges
This close-up image of a dust storm on Mars was acquired by the Mars Color Imager instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov. 7, 2007
MARCI Sees a Martian Dust Storm
Collapsing Volcano; Edge of Olympus Mons
Collapsing Volcano; Edge of Olympus Mons
This image covers the margin of a lava flow in Elysium Planitia, the youngest flood-lava province on Mars. Flood lavas cover extensive areas, and were once thought to be emplaced extremely rapidly,...
Of Elephants and Floods of Lava (3-D)
Northern Hemisphere Gullies on West-Facing Crater Slope, Mars
Northern Hemisphere Gullies on West-Facing Crater Slope, Mars
This graphic shows the route that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity drove in its final approach to "Perseverance Valley" on the western rim of Endeavour Crater during spring 2017.
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This series of images shows warm-season features that might be evidence of salty liquid water active on Mars today.
Warm-Season Flows in Well-Preserved Crater in Terra Sirenum (Six-Image Sequence)
This image shows the floor of Ius Chasma
Faults in Ius Chasma (3-D)
Artist's concept of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter approaching Mars.
Artist's concept of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter approaching Mars.
This image shows a cross-section of a portion of the north polar ice cap of Mars, derived from data acquired by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's Shallow Radar (SHARAD), one of six instruments on t...
North Polar Cap Cross Section
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
Drainage Near Crater in Terra Sabaea.
Drainage Near Crater in Terra Sabaea
This cross-section view of underground layers near Mars' south pole is a radargram based on data from the Shallow Subsurface Radar (SHARAD) instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Cross Section of Buried Carbon-Dioxide Ice on Mars
Deposits on the floor of Palos Crater
Deposits on the floor of Palos Crater
This set of images shows what might be hardware from the Soviet Union's 1971 Mars 3 lander, seen in a pair of images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Ma...
Could This Be the Mars Soviet 3 Lander?
These images from the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show several impact scars on Mars made by pieces of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft that the spacecraft shed just before entering ...
Impact Scars from MSL Cruise Stage and Two Balance Weights
This HiRISE image shows diverse layers in a region near Mawrth Vallis, a channel that was probably carved by water in Mars' ancient past. The color subimage shows details of layers exposed in a cra...
Diverse Layers and Mineralogy Near Mawrth Vallis (3-D)
This graph shows a spectrum recorded by the Chemistry and Camera instrument (ChemCam) in NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
ChemCam Spectrum from Martian Rock Target 'Ithaca'
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a hill with a central crater. Such features have been interpreted as both mud volcanoes (really a sedimentary structure) and as actual volca...
A Volcano of Mud or Lava?
This series of images shows warm-season features that might be evidence of salty liquid water active on Mars today.
Warm-Season Flows on Slope in Horowitz Crater (Eight-Image Sequence)
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