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Investigation of exposed clay minerals at thousands of Martian sites by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests a...
This map from NASA Dawn mission indicates the presence of hydrated minerals on the giant asteroid Vesta about 30...
This colorized map from NASA Dawn mission shows the distribution of minerals across the surface of the giant...
Soon to be operating from the International Space Station, NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation...
This schematic shows the atomic structure of the smallest units that make up the layers and interlayer region of...
This plot segregates various minerals examined by NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity according to their...
In this test image by SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals),...
The mineral map shows an area of southwestern Libya in the Sahara Desert observed by NASA's Earth Surface Mineral...
This graphic shows proportions of minerals identified in mudstone exposures at the "Yellowknife Bay" location where...
This photograph shows orange-colored carbonate mineral globules found in a meteorite, called ALH84001, believed to...
From its vantage point aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source...
This view of Lyot Crater is a combined mapping by NASA Project Viking with elevation information from Mars Global...
This view of Stokes Crater is a mosaic of images taken by NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA Mars Express...
Researchers used NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity to find a water-related mineral on the ground that had been...
The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission instrument (right) sits in the "trunk" that will...
This image shows locations in parts of North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia observed by NASA's...
Data graphed here from the Chemistry and Camera (CheMin) instrument on NASA's Mars Curiosity rover show a difference...
NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Rovers could tell you something about the ups and downs of working on Mars. Spirit is...
This image shows the southern wall of Coprates Chasma, in the equatorial canyon system of Valles Marineris. While...
This image shows the first measurements taken by NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) from...
The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission instrument (left) sits in the "trunk" that will...
These annotated images show two views of the "Séítah" geologic unit of Mars' Jezero Crater. The map on the left...
Produced with data from NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission, this image uses two...
NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) detected a cluster of 12 methane plumes on Sept. 1,...