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Key Locations Studied at 'Pahrump Hills' on Mars

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover examined a mudstone outcrop area called "Pahrump Hills" on lower Mount Sharp, in 2014...

Mars Sample Return Lander's Divert Maneuver

During the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, pristine samples of Mars rock and regolith (broken rock and...

NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #7

NASA's Mars 2020 rover looks at the horizon in this artist's concept. The mission will not only seek out and study...

Opportunity Rover Views Ground Texture 'Perseverance Valley'

This late-afternoon view from the front Hazard Avoidance Camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a...

Perseverance AutoNav Avoids a Boulder

This animation is a playback of data recorded by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover during an autonomous drive on July...

Perseverance's Office on Mars

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to create this panorama of its first drill site....

Mudstone Mineralogy from Curiosity CheMin, 2013 to 2016

This series of pie charts shows similarities and differences in the mineral compositions of mudstones at 10 sites...

Witness Tube in Perseverance Sample Caching System

As part of its search for signs of ancient life on Mars, Perseverance is the first rover to bring a sample caching...

Before and After Perseverance Sample Tube Shake

The robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its percussive drill to eject fragments of cored rock from a...

Curiosity's ChemCam Checks 'Christmas Cove' Colors

The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover examined a freshly brushed area on...

Perseverance's Panorama of Potential Mars Sample Return Landing Site

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take this panorama of a proposed landing site...

Perseverance Scouts Landing Sites for Mars Sample Return Campaign

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used one of its navigation cameras to take this image of flat terrain in Jezero...

OSIRIS-REx Sample from Asteroid Bennu - jsc2024e023025

A top-down view of one of the containers holding rocks and dust from asteroid Bennu, with hardware scale marked in...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II Heavy launch vehicle carrying the second Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, is poised for launch after rollback of the Mobile Service Tower. Opportunity will reach Mars on Jan. 25, 2004. Together the two MER rovers, Spirit (launched June 10) and Opportunity, seek to determine the history of climate and water at two sites on Mars where conditions may once have been favorable to life. The rovers are identical. They will navigate themselves around obstacles as they drive across the Martian surface, traveling up to about 130 feet each Martian day. Each rover carries five scientific instruments including a panoramic camera and microscope, plus a rock abrasion tool that will grind away the outer surfaces of rocks to expose their interiors for examination. Each rover’s prime mission is planned to last three months on Mars.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II Heavy launch vehicle carrying the rover "Opportunity" for the second Mars Exploration Rover mission launches at 11:18:15 p.m. EDT. Opportunity will reach Mars on Jan. 25, 2004. Together the two MER rovers, Spirit (launched June 10) and Opportunity, seek to determine the history of climate and water at two sites on Mars where conditions may once have been favorable to life. The rovers are identical. They will navigate themselves around obstacles as they drive across the Martian surface, traveling up to about 130 feet each Martian day. Each rover carries five scientific instruments including a panoramic camera and microscope, plus a rock abrasion tool that will grind away the outer surfaces of rocks to expose their interiors for examination. Each rover’s prime mission is planned to last three months on Mars.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta II Heavy launch vehicle carrying the rover "Opportunity" for the second Mars Exploration Rover mission launches at 11:18:15 p.m. EDT. Opportunity will reach Mars on Jan. 25, 2004. Together the two MER rovers, Spirit (launched June 10) and Opportunity, seek to determine the history of climate and water at two sites on Mars where conditions may once have been favorable to life. The rovers are identical. They will navigate themselves around obstacles as they drive across the Martian surface, traveling up to about 130 feet each Martian day. Each rover carries five scientific instruments including a panoramic camera and microscope, plus a rock abrasion tool that will grind away the outer surfaces of rocks to expose their interiors for examination. Each rover’s prime mission is planned to last three months on Mars.

Martian Ridge Looming Above Curiosity Prior to Ascent

Researchers used the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover to gain this detailed view of layers in...

'Green Gardens' Sample in Tube

This image shows a cylinder of rock the size of a piece of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance...

Looking Up at Layers of 'Vera Rubin Ridge' on Sol 1790

The Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of "Vera Rubin Ridge" about two weeks...

Earth Observations taken by the Expedition 23 Crew

ISS023-E-029806 (30 April 2010) --- Kata Tjuta, Australia is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23...

Curiosity View of 'Vera Rubin Ridge' From Below, Sol 1734

"Vera Rubin Ridge," a favored destination for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover even before the rover landed in 2012,...

Rover Tracks

Tracks made by the Sojourner rover are visible in this image, taken by one of the cameras aboard Sojourner on Sol 3....

Mars 2020 With Sample Tubes (Artist's Concept)

NASA's Mars 2020 rover will store rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet's surface for future missions...

Perseverance Cores 'Berea'

This animation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collecting a rock sample from an outcrop the science team calls...