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This image, acquired by NASA Terra spacecraft, is of the ancient city of Uruk is located in present-day Iraq, on an...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its ChemCam instrument to capture Peace Vallis, an ancient river channel descending...
As NASA’s Perseverance rover prepares to ascend to the rim of Jezero Crater, its team is investigating a rock unlike...
The ancient sinuous river channel shown in this image by NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft was likely carved by water...
NASA's Perseverance rover was traveling in the channel of an ancient river, Neretva Vallis, when it captured this...
The sinuous ridges in this image display strong characteristics of ancient meandering riverbeds that are preserved...
In this image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, an ancient sinuous meandering river system is...
This image of ridges in Aeolis Planum tells a story of ancient rivers and a Mars very different to that of today....
This is a portion of an inverted fluvial channel in the region of Aeolis/Zephyria Plana, at the Martian equator....
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft contains interesting examples of crosscutting, sinuous...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama under exceptionally clear conditions of Gale Crater's northern...
Early in Martian history, liquid water energetically carved the surface, forming channel systems that look...
Multiple processes, which may have occurred billions of years apart, are reflected in this HiRISE image of Aeolis...
A color image of Valles Marineris, the great canyon of Mars; north toward top. The scene shows the entire canyon...
Superimposed on an image taken by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, this map shows the...
A color image of Valles Marineris, the great canyon and the south Chryse basin-Valles Marineris outflow channels of...
NASA’s Curiosity rover is exploring a scientifically exciting area on Mars, but communicating with the mission team...
ISS030-E-009186 (3 Dec. 2011) --- The Menindee Lakes, New South Wales, Australia are featured in this image...
This mosaic of daytime infrared images of Gusev Crater, taken by NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft, has been draped over...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looks out at the expanse of Jezero Crater's river delta on April 11, 2022, the 406th...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama using one of its black-and-white navigation cameras on...
This rendering shows the area where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover climbed a steep slope to reach a location called...
Mosaic composed of 102 Viking Orbiter images of Mars, covering nearly a full hemisphere of the planet (approximate...
This animation shows the route NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has taken while driving up the lower part of 3-mile-tall...