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This image from NASA Curiosity rover shows the open inlet where powdered rock and soil samples will be funneled down...
This footage from Aug. 19, 2019, shows a replica of InSight scraping soil with a scoop on the end of its robotic arm...
AS12-49-7278 (19-20 Nov. 1969) --- Astronaut Alan L. Bean holds a Special Environmental Sample Container filled with...
AS15-92-12424 (31 July-2 Aug. 1971) --- Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, uses a scoop in making a...
AS12-48-7149 (20 Nov. 1969) --- A close-up view of astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander of the Apollo 12 lunar...
This footage from 1969 shows researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center examining samples of Moon rocks and soil...
S71-23772 (11-12 March 1971) --- Two members of the prime crew of the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission collect soil...
Thrusters under NASA's InSight lander churned up soil during landing on Mars. This image shows two pits excavated by...
This is an illustration of soil analysis on NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Wet Chemistry Lab WCL on board the Microscopy,...
This illustration shows some of the components on and near the end of the robotic arm on NASA Phoenix Mars Lander....
NASA scientists used tree rings to understand past droughts and climate models incorporating soil moisture data to...
As NASA Mars rover Curiosity is progressing toward Mount Sharp, researchers are using the rover RIM and ChemCam...
NASA Phoenix Mars Lander monitors the atmosphere overhead and reaches out to the soil below in this artist depiction...
This artist rendering portrays ice-rich layers in the soils of Mars being detected by instruments aboard NASA 2001...
Smooth surfaces of windblown sand and dust of the Rocknest area signal an appropriate place for NASA Curiosity to...
The first examinations of Martian soil by the Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, instrument on NASA Mars Curiosity...
NASA Phoenix Mars Lander carried the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer t to heat and sniff samples of Martian soil...
Ares Vallis is a large valley that was carved billions of years ago by water flowing across the surface of Mars....
A scanning electron microscope captured this image of terresterial soil containing a phyllosilicate mineral from...
Several possible targets of study for rover Sojourner's Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument are seen...
Caye Johnson, a former biologist from NASA's Ames Research Center, narrates footage from 1969 of researchers...
Several objects have been imaged by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) during the spacecraft's first day on Mars....
jsc2022e042489 (9/23/2021) --- Preflight image of a rack of tubes containing soil samples that have been inoculated...
AS11-40-5964 (20 July 1969) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo...