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This map shows the route driven by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, from the location where it landed in August 2012 to...
iss071e132461 (May 27, 2024) -- A trio of lakes in the Ethiopian Rift Valley were pictured from the International...
This scene shows NASA's Curiosity Mars rover at a location called "Windjana," where the rover found rocks containing...
Ladon Basin was a large impact structure that was filled in by the deposits from Ladon Valles, a major ancient river...
This view of a portion of the Eridania region of southern Mars shows fractured, dismembered blocks of deep-basin...
Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock artifact on the left was imaged by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover using its...
This image covers the inside of an impact crater on the northern plains of Mars. It was intended to provide a...
Engineers and technicians at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California assemble components of the...
A close-up view of an engineering model of SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for...
This false-color image demonstrates how use of special filters available on the Mast Camera (Mastcam) of NASA's...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama at a site nicknamed "Ubajara" on April 30, 2023, the...
A mineral vein with bright and dark portions dominates this image of a Martian rock target called "Rona," which is...
The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover examined a freshly brushed area on...
This view of "Vera Rubin Ridge" from the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover...
The MASCS instrument onboard NASA MESSENGER spacecraft was designed to study both the exosphere and surface of...
The light blue shallow water platforms of the Bahamas, (24.0N, 77.0W) which are separated by very deep dark blue...
Students from the University of Miami build a robotic miner to compete in this year’s Lunabotics competition. More...
There is a candidate landing site in the Mawrth Vallis region for the European Space Agency's ExoMars rover, planned...
Members of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer team pose with the spacecraft at SpaceX's payload processing facility at NASA's...
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows small ripples, about 10 meters apart, located in Her Desher...
Galileo has eyes that can see more than ours can. By looking at what we call the infrared wavelengths, the NIMS...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A visitor to the Robot Rocket Rally takes an up-close look at RASSOR, a robotic miner...
This modern-looking "geoboard" adds a pop of color to the lab at Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego,...
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows part of the central uplifted region of an impact crater...