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This graphic maps locations of the first 14 sites where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover collected rock or soil samples...
Optimism, a full-scale replica of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, tests a model of Perseverance's regolith bit in a...
This view from the Navigation Camera (Navcam) on the mast of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows rocky ground within...
This composite image, made from four taken by the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on August 8,...
A close-up view of an engineering model of SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for...
This image shows the abrading bit used by NASA's Perseverance to get beneath the surface of Mars rocks. It was...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam to capture this 360-degree panorama of "Marker Band Valley" on Dec. 16,...
NASA's Curiosity rover took this selfie on Oct. 11, 2019, the 2,553rd Martian day, or sol, of its mission. The rover...
This image taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on Sept. 7, 2021, PDT (Sept. 8, EDT), shows two holes where the...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama using its black-and-white navigation cameras, or...
This panorama was taken on Dec. 19, 2018, (Sol 2265) by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover....
This image shows a cylinder of rock the size of a piece of classroom chalk inside the drill of NASA's Perseverance...
This low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle above the "Buckskin" rock target,...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover began close-up investigation of a target called "Marimba," on lower Mount Sharp, during...
This image shows the journey of NASA's Perseverance rover across the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater in the...
This image of the hole drilled by NASA's Perseverance rover during its first sample-collection attempt was imaged by...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used two different cameras to create this selfie in front of Mont Mercou, a rock outcrop...
After snagging a new rock sample on August 9, 2018 (Sol 2137), NASA's Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on...
This composite of two images shows the hole drilled by NASA's Perseverance rover during its second sample-collection...
This close-up view of a rock target named "Dourbes" was provided by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for...
This map shows all the quadrant themes for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently in the Roraima quadrant...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to take this 360-degree panorama from within Gediz...
This series of pie charts shows similarities and differences in the mineral compositions of mudstones at 10 sites...
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover on the surface of Mars. The mission takes the next step by not...