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Soil Still in Scoop After Sample-Delivery Attempt
Martian Soil Inside Phoenix Robotic Arm Scoop
Rover Wheel Churns Up Bright Martian Soil
Bright Soil Churned by Spirit Sol 1861 Drive
Mid-Level Soil Sample for Oven Number Seven
A three-day composite global map of surface soil moisture as retrieved from NASA SMAP radiometer instrument between...
This is a three-dimensional stereo anaglyph of an image taken by the front navigation camera onboard NASA Mars...
Several Goddard technologists are involved in a new CubeSat technology-demonstration mission called SNoOPI, which...
This image taken by the microscopic imager on NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the powdery soil of Mars in...
While a test rover rolls off a plywood surface into a prepared bed of soft soil, rover team members Colette Lohr...
S69-53894 (October 1969) --- Dr. Charles H. Walkinshaw, Jr., Spaceflight Biotechnology Branch botanist, Preventive...
The radar measurements made by NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive SMAP observatory are sensitive to whether land...
Christine Bonniksen, SMAP program executive with the Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division, NASA...
Christine Bonniksen, SMAP program executive with the Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division, NASA...
Rover Wheel Churns Up Bright Martian Soil False Color
Rover Wheel Churns Up Bright Martian Soil Vertical
Disturbed Soil Along the Path from Tyrone Close-Up
This graph compares the elemental composition of typical soils at three landing regions on Mars: Gusev Crater, from...
This 3-D anaglyph, from NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows a circular imprint left in the Meridiani Planum...
Yogi & Local Soil
This image shows an experiment conducted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory re-creating the processes that form...
NASA Mars Exploration Rover microscopic imager onboard Spirit revealed a gap less than half an inch in the imprint...
The Chemistry and Camera ChemCam instrument on NASA Mars rover Curiosity used its laser to examine side-by-side...
AS11-40-5878 (20 July 1969) --- A close-up view of an astronaut's bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed with a...