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ISS030-E-174652 (28 Feb. 2012) --- A dust storm near the White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, USA is featured...
Engineers and technicians at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California assemble components of the...
Pawan from Sharjah: The spectrometers on MER-A and B split the visible light into many colors which identify...
The large dark feature is a classic Martian sand dune. Most sand on Earth is made from the mineral quartz, which is...
This image covers the inside of an impact crater on the northern plains of Mars. It was intended to provide a...
On a part of "Vera Rubin Ridge" where rover-team researchers sought to determine whether dust coatings are hiding...
NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) collected this hyperspectral image of the Amazon River...
A piece of Africa—actually lots of them—began to arrive in the Americas in June 2014. On June 23, a lengthy river of...
A mineral vein with bright and dark portions dominates this image of a Martian rock target called "Rona," which is...
This episode of NASA Science Live is broadcasting live from AGU in San Francisco. We have breaking news on our...
Gale Crater, home to NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, shows a new face in this mosaic image made using data from the...
This false-color image demonstrates how use of special filters available on the Mast Camera (Mastcam) of NASA's...
This scene shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover at a location called "Windjana," where the rover found rocks containing...
This artist's concept represents the "Follow the Water" theme of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. The...
Data collected by NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) on April 23, 2024, indicates the...
Diane Hope, Charlene Ung, and Cathryn Murray-Wooddell oversee preparations for vibration testing of the Earth...
The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover examined a freshly brushed area on...
Before collecting a rock sample at a spot nicknamed "Otis Peak," NASA's Perseverance Mars rover employed an abrasion...
This annotated image shows a rock target called "Garde" as analyzed by SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with...
This video from NASA's Perseverance rover shows increasingly close views of an abraded rock at "Wildcat Ridge" in...
There have been several proposals to send people to Mars but not land them on the surface. Instead, they would...
Composed of 18 images, this natural-color mosaic shows a boulder field on "Mount Washburn" (named after a mountain...
This image shows a cylinder of rock the size of a piece of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance...
Nothing gets a geologist more excited than layered bedrock, except perhaps finding a fossil or holding a meteorite...