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Artist concept of Glaciers on Mars
November 20, 2008
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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)
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
Impact cratering and erosion combine to reveal the composition of the Martian underground by exposing materials from the subsurface.
Clay Minerals in Craters and Escarpments on Mars (Figure 2)
Phobos from 6,800 Kilometers
Phobos from 5,800 Kilometers (Color)
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, nearing the 10th anniversary of its arrival at Mars, used its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera to obtain this view of an area with unus...
For a Decade Orbiting Mars: One Recent View
Mawrth Vallis has a rich mineral diversity, including clay minerals that formed by the chemical alteration of rocks or loose “regolith” (soil) by water.
Proposed MSL Landing Site in Mawrth Vallis Region
This view combines information from two instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to map color-coded composition over the shape of the ground in a small portion of the Nili Fossae plains re...
Rocks Here Sequester Some of Mars' Early Atmosphere
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 mosaic, taken with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the planned route (in yellow) of NASA's Curiosity rover from "Pah...
Curiosity Rover Planned Route
A rippled patch of sand in Becquerel Crater on Mars moved about two meters (about two yards) between November 24, 2006 and September 5, 2010, as observed in these images taken by NASA's Mars Reconn...
Blowing in the Martian Wind
Drainage Near Crater in Terra Sabaea.
Drainage Near Crater in Terra Sabaea
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)
Five decades of successful NASA missions to the Red Planet, 1965-2015.
50 Years of Mars Exploration
This full-resolution color image from NASA's Curiosity Rover shows the gravel-covered surface of Mars. It was taken by the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) several minutes after Curiosity touched down o...
Gravel-Covered Martian Surface
This image (top) taken by the Shallow Radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals the layers of ice, sand and dust that make up the north polar ice cap on Mars
What Lies Below a Martian Ice Cap
This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity perched on the edge of "Concepción" crater in Meridiani Planum, Mars.
Opportunity at 'Concepción' Crater, Seen from Orbit
This feature has a strange appearance, as if the crater has feet with toes sticking out of two sides. Let's try to explain this.
Weird Crater
This map indicates geological units in the region of Mars around a smaller area where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven from early 2004 through late 2010.
Geologic Setting of Opportunity Traverse and Meridiani Planum
What triggered a Martian landslide? Landslides are common features in canyons on both Earth and Mars, and they happen the same way.
Noctis Landslide
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 image shows the location of the rover-containing section of new color image in relation to Solander Point.
Location of Opportunity at Solander Point
Countdown Nears: Final Tests
Countdown Nears: Final Tests
Layers in the lower portion of two neighboring buttes within the Noctis Labyrinthus formation on Mars are visible in this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera o...
Light-Toned Deposits in Noctis Labyrinthus
The white arrows indicate locations in this scene where numerous seasonal dark streaks, called "recurring slope lineae," have been identified in the Coprates Montes area of Mars' Valles Marineris b...
Numerous Seasonal 'Lineae' on Coprates Montes, Mars
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 (Figure 3)
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