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This figure shows the location of CHIMRA on the turret of NASA Curiosity rover, together with a cutaway view of the...
This set of views illustrates capabilities of the Mast Camera MastCam instrument on NASA Mars Science Laboratory...
The science instrument on NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is shown here with its aperture cover removed,...
Members of NASA Mars Science Laboratory team carefully steer the hoisted Chemistry and Mineralogy CheMin instrument...
This image from August 2008 shows NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover in the course of its assembly, before additions...
An in-flight camera check produced this out-of-focus image when NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft turned on...
NASA MESSENGER Earth flyby on Aug. 2, 2005, not only adjusted the spacecraft path to Mercury - the gravity assist...
This illustration shows the instruments and subsystems of the Sample Analysis at Mars SAM suite on the Curiosity...
The Sample Analysis at Mars SAM instrument for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission will study chemistry of rocks,...
During its close flyby of Earth, NASA Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft listened for a coordinated, global transmission...
This graph based on data from the RAD instrument onboard NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft shows the flux of...
The Mast Camera Mastcam instrument for NASA Mars Science Laboratory will use a side-by side pair of cameras for...
The remote sensing mast on NASA Mars rover Curiosity holds two science instruments for studying the rover...
The Mast Camera Mastcam instrument for NASA Mars Science Laboratory will use a side-by side pair of cameras for...
Mars scientists have several important hypotheses about how these minerals may reflect changes in the amount of...
The Mid-Infrared Instrument, a component of NASA James Webb Space Telescope, underwent alignment testing at the...
The ChemCam instrument for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission uses a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size...
The Mid-Infrared Instrument, a component of NASA James Webb Space Telescope, underwent testing inside the thermal...
This view looks upward toward the InSight Mars lander suspended upside down. It shows the top of the lander's...
B-roll and sound bites for media and public use. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern...
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer sits in a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, shortly after being...
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has been hard at work using the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with...
NASA's Mars 2020 Project will re-use the basic engineering of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity to send a...
In the weeks after NASA's InSight mission reaches Mars in September 2016, the lander's arm will lift two key science...