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Paul Mahaffy (right), principal investigator for Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) investigation at NASA's...
David Blake, principal investigator for Curiosity's Chemistry and Mineralogy investigation at NASA's Ames Research...
John Grotzinger (center), Curiosity project scientist, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, speaks at a...
John Grotzinger, Curiosity project scientist, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, answers a reporter's...
John Grotzinger (second from left), Curiosity project scientist, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena,...
This time-lapse video, which has been sped up by 24 times, uses an engineering model of one of the instruments...
This VIS image shows part of the floor of Pollack Crater. First imaged by Mariner 9, the high contrast between the...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew over these sand dunes and rocks during its ninth flight, on July 5, 2021, the...
These 26 holes represent each of the rock samples NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected as of early July 2020. A...
This close-up view of a target rock called "Last Chance" was acquired by the microscopic imager on the arm of NASA's...
This stereo scene from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover shows boulders composed, in part, of...
NASA's Perseverance Mars will use a tool on its robotic arm to abrade the rock, nicknamed "Rochette," at the center...
This triangle plot shows the relative concentrations of some of the major chemical elements in the Martian rock...
A selfie taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Sol 2291 (January 15) at the "Rock Hall" drill site, located on...
ISS020-E-007383 (FOR RELEASE 21 JULY 2009) --- A moon rock brought to Earth by Apollo 11, humans? first landing on...
This Mastcam-Z image shows a sample of Mars rock inside the sample tube on Sept. 1, 2021 (the 190th sol, or Martian...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover viewed these rocks using its Mastcam-Z imager on April 27, 2021, the 66th Martian...
A stereo landscape scene from NASA Curiosity Mars rover shows rock rows at Junda forming striations in the...
This image from the panoramic camera Pancam on NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the location of...
This frame from an animation from NASA Mars rover Curiosity shows the rover drilling into rock target Cumberland....
The rock Ithaca is shown here with a rougher lower texture and smoother texture on top, and appears to be a piece of...
This false-color image NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows that fractures and possible layers are visible in the...
This side-by-side comparison shows the X-ray diffraction patterns of two different samples collected from rocks on...
This image from the microscopic imager on NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows details of the coating on a...