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Opportunity Surroundings on 3,000th Sol, Polar Projection

This 360-degree polar projection was assembled from images taken by the navigation camera on NASA Mars Exporation...

First 3-D Panorama of Spirit Landing Site

This sprawling look at the martian landscape surrounding the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is the first 3-D stereo...

Lincoln Penny on Mars in Camera Calibration Target

The penny in this image is part of a camera calibration target on NASA Mars rover Curiosity. The MAHLI camera on the...

Movement from Spirit Second Extrication Drive

This image is one of two images which documents very slight forward movement of NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit...

Opportunity View, Sol 959 Vertical

NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this stereo view...

First Dust Devil Seen by Opportunity

This is the first dust devil that NASA rover Opportunity has observed in the rover six and a half years on Mars....

Opportunity View, Sol 958 Polar

NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this stereo view...

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.

JPL-20211227-M2020f-0001-Perseverance Year in Review

What has NASA's Perseverance rover accomplished since landing on the surface of Mars in February 2021? Surface...

Black and White: Smoke Plume from Perseverance's Descent Stage

This image from one of the rear Hazard Cameras, or Hazcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, shows a smoke...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Puff, Whir, Zap Sounds from Mars

Listen closely to new sounds from Mars recorded by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, including puffs and pings from a...

Camera on Curiosity Arm as Seen by Camera on Mast

The left eye of the Mast Camera Mastcam on NASA Mars rover Curiosity took this image of the camera on the rover arm,...

Test Setup for Effort to Free Spirit

With a slope of about 10 degrees and a pointy rock under the test rover belly, this sandbox setup at NASA JPL, is...

Curiosity Traverse Map Through Sol 43

This map shows the route driven by NASA Mars rover Curiosity through the 43rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover...

Curiosity Stars and Stripes

This view of the American flag medallion on NASA Mars rover Curiosity was taken by the rover MAHLI camera during the...

Curiosity Digs In

This pair of images shows a bite mark where NASA Curiosity rover scooped up some Martian soil left, and the scoop...

Martian Rock and Dust Filling Studied with Laser and Camera

Scientists used the ChemCam instrument on NASA Curiosity Mars rover to examine a Martian rock hell about one inch...

Daily Cycles of Radiation and Pressure at Gale Crater

This graphic shows the daily variations in Martian radiation and atmospheric pressure as measured by NASA Curiosity...

Block Island Meteorite on Mars, Sol 1961 Stereo

Composition measurements by NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity confirm that this rock on the Martian surface is...

Sweeping View of the Columbia

NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit obtained this stereo panorama of the surrounding Martian terrain in Gusev Crater...

Opportunity Devilish View from on High

From its perch high on a ridge, NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this image of a Martian dust devil...

Comparing Phobos Views

As part of a multi-mission campaign, NASA Curiosity rover is observing Martian moon transits, the first of which...

Sunset Watched by Opportunity, November 2010

The sun descends to the Martian horizon and sets in this image from the panoramic camera Pancam on NASA Mars...