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An engineer helps NASA astronaut Kate Rubins adjust the lens on the Joint AR (Joint Augmented Reality Visual...

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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins uses the hand controller on her wrist to display information while wearing the Joint AR...

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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins opens the sun visor on the Joint AR (Joint Augmented Reality Visual Informatics System)...

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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins walks through the lunar-like landscape wearing the Joint AR (Joint Augmented Reality...

Perseverance Views 'Bright Angel'

NASA's Perseverance rover was traveling in the channel of an ancient river, Neretva Vallis, when it captured this...

Perseverance Views Wind Lifting a Massive Dust Cloud

This series of images from a navigation camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover shows a gust of wind sweeping dust...

Perseverance's Weather Sensors Deployed

This set of images shows part of the deployment of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) wind sensors on...

Curiosity Arrives at Gediz Vallis Channel

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama using one of its black-and-white navigation cameras on...

Panorama from Curiosity Sol 1000 Location

This 360-degree panorama from the Navigation Camera (Navcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the surroundings...

Perseverance Views Dust Devils Swirling Across Jezero Crater

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to capture these dust devils swirling across...

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The full-scale engineering model of NASA's Perseverance rover raises its "head," or remote sensing mast, at NASA's...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II Heavy launch vehicle carrying the second Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, is poised for launch after rollback of the Mobile Service Tower. Opportunity will reach Mars on Jan. 25, 2004. Together the two MER rovers, Spirit (launched June 10) and Opportunity, seek to determine the history of climate and water at two sites on Mars where conditions may once have been favorable to life. The rovers are identical. They will navigate themselves around obstacles as they drive across the Martian surface, traveling up to about 130 feet each Martian day. Each rover carries five scientific instruments including a panoramic camera and microscope, plus a rock abrasion tool that will grind away the outer surfaces of rocks to expose their interiors for examination. Each rover’s prime mission is planned to last three months on Mars.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II Heavy launch vehicle carrying the rover "Opportunity" for the second Mars Exploration Rover mission launches at 11:18:15 p.m. EDT. Opportunity will reach Mars on Jan. 25, 2004. Together the two MER rovers, Spirit (launched June 10) and Opportunity, seek to determine the history of climate and water at two sites on Mars where conditions may once have been favorable to life. The rovers are identical. They will navigate themselves around obstacles as they drive across the Martian surface, traveling up to about 130 feet each Martian day. Each rover carries five scientific instruments including a panoramic camera and microscope, plus a rock abrasion tool that will grind away the outer surfaces of rocks to expose their interiors for examination. Each rover’s prime mission is planned to last three months on Mars.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II Heavy launch vehicle carrying the rover "Opportunity" for the second Mars Exploration Rover mission launches at 11:18:15 p.m. EDT. Opportunity will reach Mars on Jan. 25, 2004. Together the two MER rovers, Spirit (launched June 10) and Opportunity, seek to determine the history of climate and water at two sites on Mars where conditions may once have been favorable to life. The rovers are identical. They will navigate themselves around obstacles as they drive across the Martian surface, traveling up to about 130 feet each Martian day. Each rover carries five scientific instruments including a panoramic camera and microscope, plus a rock abrasion tool that will grind away the outer surfaces of rocks to expose their interiors for examination. Each rover’s prime mission is planned to last three months on Mars.

Computer Simulation of Perseverance's First Autonav Drive

This computer animation shows a replay of telemetry from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as it carried out its first...

Opportunity Approach to Marathon Valley Stereo

Cumulative driving by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity surpassed marathon distance on March 24, 2015, as...

Perseverance's View From 'Lookout Hill'

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of...

Curiosity Observes Sunset Eclipse: Sol 2358

This series of images shows the shadow of Phobos as it sweeps over NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and darkens the...

Rover Reward for Climbing: Exposed Geological Contact

The Martian outcrop where pale rock meets darker overlying rock near the middle of this view is an example of a...

Ingenuity's Navcam Reveals a Missing Rotor Blade

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter used its black-and-white navigation camera to capture this video showing the...

Firefly Demo-2 Payload Processing

From left, NASA engineer James Berck removes the foreign object debris (FOD) cover from the relative navigation...

Virtual Rover Takes its First Turn

This image shows a screenshot from the software used by engineers to drive the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. The...

Discolored Fracture Zones in Martian Sandstone

This view from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows an example of discoloration closely linked to fractures in the...

Rocket Scour and Wheel Prints

Taken on March 5, 2021, this color-calibrated image from a Navigation Camera aboard NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance...