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These images, made from data obtained by Curiosity CheMin, show the patterns obtained from a drift of windblown dust...
This image taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager MAHLI on NASA Mars rover Curiosity shows the texture of the patch of...
The NASA Astrobiology Icy Worlds team at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory are collecting samples from a simulated...
This image from NASA Curiosity rover shows a sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover drill from the...
Luna 16 was the first robotic mission to land on the Moon on basaltic plains of Mare Fecunditatis and return a...
NASA Mars rover Curiosity used its Mast Camera Mastcam to take the images combined into this mosaic of the drill...
This plot of data from NASA Mars rover Curiosity shows the variety of gases that were released from sand grains upon...
This view from the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA Phoenix Mars Lander shows the trench informally named Snow White...
Closeup view of a cometary impact upper right into aerogel was inspected by scientists at a laboratory at the...
This image from NASA Curiosity rover shows the inlet covers for the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument as the rover...
This mosaic from NASA Mars rover, Curiosity, shows the first four of five places from which the rover scoop obtained...
A day after NASA Mars rover Curiosity drilled the first sample-collection hole into a rock on Mars, the rover...
This engineering drawing shows the five devices that make up the turret at the end of the arm on NASA Curiosity...
This image from the front Hazcam on NASA Curiosity Mars rover shows the rover drill in place during a test of...
This image taken by the MAHLI camera shows a sample of basaltic rock from a lava flow in New Mexico serves as a...
The robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its percussive drill to core and collect the "Main River"...
The drill bit of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover over one of the sample inlets on the rover's deck. The inlets lead to...
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) student Piper Lovegreen calibrates a sensor to measure leaf...
NASA astronaut Andre Douglas pours a scoopful of geologic samples into a sample bag during a simulated moonwalk in...
Stardust sample analysis @ UC Berkeley clean room with Dr Scott Sandford, NASA Ames Astrophysicist - mission aerogel...
Stardust sample analysis @ UC Berkeley clean room with Dr Scott Sandford, NASA Ames Astrophysicist - mission aerogel...
NASA astronaut Andre Douglas uses a rake to pour “lunar” samples into a sample bag during a simulated moonwalk in...
Stardust sample analysis @ UC Berkeley clean room with Dr Scott Sandford, NASA Ames Astrophysicist - mission aerogel...
Stardust sample analysis @ UC Berkeley clean room with Dr Scott Sandford, NASA Ames Astrophysicist - mission aerogel...