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The first cored sample of Mars rock is visible (at center) inside a titanium sample collection tube in this from the...
This annotated map shows the locations where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collected its first witness tube and...
Perseverance's Sampling and Caching System Camera, or CacheCam, captured this time-lapse series of images of the...
This is a radar image of the central part of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia that shows how the tropical...
ISS022-E-008282 (9 Dec. 2009) --- One of the world?s leading copper mines, Escondida, in the Atacama Desert of...
These sets of images were taken between March 13 and 15, 2021 (the 22nd and 24th Martian days, or sols, of NASA's...
A researcher at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory checks the...
ISS037-E-022990 (30 Oct. 2013) --- This detailed image, photographed by an Expedition 37 crew member on the...
These Mars global maps show the likely distribution of water ice buried within the upper 3 feet (1 meter) of the...
In this photograph, a futuristic spacecraft model sits atop a carrier on the Magnetic Launch Assist System, formerly...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera...
In this annotated animated GIF, the bit carousel on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover can be seen rotating during a...
Drag your mouse or move your phone to explore this 360-degree panorama provided by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. This...
This image of pebble-sized debris in the bit carousel on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was acquired on Jan. 7,...
This time-lapse video, which has been sped up by 24 times, uses an engineering model of one of the instruments...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rock nicknamed "Cheyava Falls" on July 18, 2024, the 1,212th...
S73-35082 (July-Sept. 1973) --- A near vertical view of a portion of west Africa ravaged by drought for the past...
The path taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover during the first 1,000 sols (Martian days) of its mission at Jezero...
Different kinds of carbon-based molecules called organic compounds were viewed within a rock target called "Garde"...
This is a radar image of the Mississippi River Delta where the river enters into the Gulf of Mexico along the coast...
This image shows a 1/9 subscale model vehicle clearing the Magnetic Launch Assist System, formerly referred to as...
This image shows the back of Coring Bit 2 in the bit carousel of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. A wavy, stringlike...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama at a site nicknamed "Ubajara" on April 30, 2023, the...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has discovered lots of evidence of ancient lakes on the Red Planet – and this recent...