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This artist concept depicts the rover Curiosity, of NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission, as it uses its Chemistry...
NASA Curiosity Mars rover provided this nighttime view of a hole produced by the rover drill and, inside the hole, a...
A south-facing escarpment in the Northwest Hellas region that was targeted for the phyllosilicates shows instances...
This anaglyph view of Stimpy, in the Rock Garden, was produced by NASA Mars Pathfinder Imager camera. 3D glasses are...
On Feb. 23, 2011, NASA Terra spacecraft imaged the Christchurch region on New Zealand South Island; this region was...
In this stereo image, a rock outcrop with a view of the surrounding landscape beckons NASA Mars Exploration Rover...
This MOC image shows an example of the extremely odd, seemingly scrambled layered rocks exposed by erosion near the...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter MRO is part of simulated flyover showing rhythmic layers of...
This close-up view of a rock target named "Dourbes" was provided by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for...
Several craters in Arabia Terra are filled with layered rock, often exposed in rounded mounds. The bright layers are...
Planetary protection engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California swab engineering models of...
S69-60294 (26 Nov. 1969) --- One of the first views of the Apollo 12 lunar rocks is this photograph of the open...
Viking 2 A utopian bright summer afternoon on Mars -- Looking south from Viking 2 on September 7, 1976 the...
This image shows the rocky outcrop the Perseverance science team calls "Berea" after the NASA Mars rover extracted a...
This intriguing surface texture is the result of rock interacting with water, as observed by NASA's Mars...
These abrasion targets, nicknamed "Guilliamus" (left) and "Bellegarde" (right), are from the first and second rocks...
This image taken by the Mastcam-Z camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on Sept. 4, 2021, confirmed that the rover...
On May 18, 2022, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used an artificial intelligence software called Autonomous...
This drill is a duplicate of the one aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. It was used in a test campaign at NASA's...
These images show a rock target called "Dourbes" in Mars' Jezero Crater and a map of chemical elements detected...
Shown here is an annotated representation of the 13 sample tubes containing rock-core samples that are being carried...
The robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its percussive drill to core and collect the "Main River"...
This image taken by the front left hazard camera (hazcam) aboard NASA's Mars Perseverance rover shows the cored-rock...
Before collecting a rock sample at a spot nicknamed "Otis Peak," NASA's Perseverance Mars rover employed an abrasion...