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This image from NASA Curiosity Mars rover shows Curiosity at the Rocknest site where the rover scooped up samples of...
This drawing shows a side view of NASA Phoenix Mars Lander scoop with various tools for acquiring soil, icy soil and...
This artist conception of NASA Mars Science Laboratory portrays use of the rover ChemCam instrument to identify the...
This picture shows a lab demonstration of the measurement chamber inside the Tunable Laser Spectrometer, an...
The first examinations of Martian soil by the Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, instrument on NASA Mars Curiosity...
Gray cuttings from Curiosity drilling into a target called Mojave 2 are visible surrounding the sample-collection...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, approximately 1.5 x 3 kilometers, shows a sample of eroded Martian...
This image of the southern flank of Ascraeus Mons, taken by NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft, shows a small sample...
This image from NASA Curiosity Mars rover shows Curiosity at the Rocknest site where the rover scooped up samples of...
NASA TOPEX/Poseidon data, collected over a 10-day sampling cycle from March 1 to 11, 2000, showed a La Niña condition.
NASA Phoenix Mars Lander carried the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer t to heat and sniff samples of Martian soil...
After two and a half years of space operations near asteroid Bennu.... NASA’s first asteroid return mission...
OSIRIS-REx sample return from asteroid Bennu. Landing in Dugway, Utah on September 24, 2023.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Space Station Processing Facility, technicians remove the cover from the Minus...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After removing its cover, technicians look over the Minus Eighty Lab Freezer for ISS...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Minus Eighty Lab Freezer for ISS (MELFI), provided as Laboratory Support Equipment...
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins places a sample marker in the soil before collecting a sample during a nighttime...
On Friday, April 6, 2018, in NASA’s Building 8337 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians and...
On Friday, April 6, 2018, in NASA’s Building 8337 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians and...
On Friday, April 6, 2018, in NASA’s Building 8337 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a technician cleans...
On Friday, April 6, 2018, in NASA’s Building 8337 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians and...
On Friday, April 6, 2018, in NASA’s Building 8337 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians and...
AS17-140-21438 (7-19 Dec. 1972) --- This 70mm frame features a close-up view of a large multi-cracked boulder...
Stardust sample analysis @ UC Berkeley clean room with Dr Scott Sandford, NASA Ames Astrophysicist - mission samples...