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These images, made from data obtained by Curiosity CheMin, show the patterns obtained from a drift of windblown dust...
Cumberland has been selected as the second target for drilling by NASA Mars rover Curiosity. The rover has the...
The percussion drill in the turret of tools at the end of the robotic arm of NASA Mars rover Curiosity has been...
This image produced from software used for planning drives of NASA Mars rover Curiosity depicts the location and...
This set of images shows the results from the rock abrasion tool from NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity left...
Data graphed here are examples from the Sample Analysis at Mars SAM laboratory detection of Martian organics in a...
This engineering drawing shows the five devices that make up the turret at the end of the arm on NASA Curiosity...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th century English...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover examined a mudstone outcrop area called "Pahrump Hills" on lower Mount Sharp, in 2014...
The drill bits used by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover are seen before being installed prior to launch. The regolith...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z instrument to capture this view of the "Cheyava Falls" rock sample...
This graphic maps locations of the sites where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover collected its first 18 rock or soil...
A portion of a cored-rock sample is ejected from the rotary percussive drill on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has used the drill on its robotic arm to take 32 rock samples to date. The Mars Hand...
These 26 holes represent each of the rock samples NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected as of early July 2020. A...
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...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover conducted a test on Oct. 17, 2017, as part of the rover team's development of a new way...
This animation depicts NASA Mars rover Curiosity drilling a hole to collect a rock-powder sample at a target site...
NASA Mars rover Curiosity drilled into this rock target, Cumberland, during the 279th Martian day, or sol, of the...
nal Caption Released with Image: This graphic maps locations of the sites where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover...
A close-up image of a 2-inch-deep hole produced using a new drilling technique for NASA's Curiosity rover. The hole...
The graph at right presents information from the NASA Curiosity Mars rover's onboard analysis of rock powder drilled...
This false-color map shows the area within Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA Curiosity rover landed on Aug. 5, 2012...