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The New Mexico College of Mining and Technology robotic miner takes its first dig in the school’s mining arena. More...
Large impacts produce uplifted central structures, either peaks, or pits, or an uplifted peak with a central pit....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Andrew Nick of Kennedy Space Center's Swamp Works shows off RASSOR, a robotic miner, at the...
In this observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), we see a set of straight ridges in ancient...
iss069e033759 (July 17, 2023) -- As the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above Turkey, NASA astronaut...
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft covers some of the plains south of Capri Chasma in...
Meet Jake Bleacher, an astrogeologist in the solar system exploration division at Goddard Space Flight Center. He...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover viewed these yellow crystals of elemental sulfur using its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on...
This diagram presents some of the processes and clues related to a long-ago lake on Mars that became stratified,...
This annotated image shows a rock target called "Garde" as analyzed by SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with...
This video from NASA's Perseverance rover shows increasingly close views of an abraded rock at "Wildcat Ridge" in...
Scientists think that ancient groundwater formed this weblike pattern of ridges, called boxwork, that were captured...
ISS016-E-031056 (3 March 2008) --- Cananea Copper Mine, Sonora, Mexico is featured in this image photographed by an...
This view from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the arm of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture within a...
This 3-D perspective view looking north over Death Valley, California, was produced by draping ASTER nighttime...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the Remote Micro Imager, part of its ChemCam instrument, to view this wind-eroded...
These images of the Saline Valley area, California, were acquired March 30, 2000 and cover a full ASTER scene (60 by...
This frame from an animation shows dwarf planet Ceres overlaid with the concentration of hydrogen determined from...
In this image, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) observes an impact crater with associated bright deposits...
On a part of "Vera Rubin Ridge" where rover-team researchers sought to determine whether dust coatings are hiding...
NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) collected this hyperspectral image of the Amazon River...
A rock outcrop dubbed "Missoula," near Marias Pass on Mars, is seen in this image mosaic taken by the Mars Hand Lens...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry) instrument to analyze...
The rocks seen here along the shoreline of Lake Salda in Turkey were formed over time by microbes that trap minerals...