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This photo taken in the "Mars Yard" at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, on Aug. 1, 2017,...
In the summer and fall of 2017, the team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover conducted tests in the "Mars Yard" at...
A virtual tour of the JSC Planetary Analog Test site, also known as the rock yard, spans a quarter acre with...
jsc2024e031840 --- NASA astronaut Kate Rubins (right) takes a photo of NASA astronaut Andre Douglas (left) as he...
Scarecrow, a mobility-testing model for NASA Mars Science Laboratory, easily traverses large rocks in the Mars Yard...
Megabreccia is a term used to describe jumbled, fragmented blocks of rock larger than 1 meter 1.09 yard across. This...
Date: 03-02-2021 Location: JSC Rockyard Subject: Scott Wray rewiews test documents during Lunar Exploration EVA...
Test subjects Kelsey Young and Tess Caswell evaluate lunar field geology tasks as part of the Exploration...
A development rover that is part of NASA's CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology...
The full-scale engineering model of NASA's Perseverance rover has put some dirt on its wheels. This vehicle system...
ISS002-E-5627 (23 April 2001) --- Algecira (left), the Bay of Gibraltar (Bahia de Algecira) and "The Rock of...
The engineering models of both the Curiosity Mars rover (foreground) and the Perseverance Mars rover share space in...
Engineers use OPTIMISM, a full-size replica of NASA's Perseverance rover, to test how it will deposit its first...
Technicians move a full-scale engineering version of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover into to its new home — a garage...
Short for Operational Perseverance Twin for Integration of Mechanisms and Instruments Sent to Mars, OPTIMISM faces a...
Updated with new features, including additional mobility software and the bulk of the sample caching system, the...
On Oct. 29, 2021, a heavy-duty vehicle transports the Perseverance rover's engineering model from a test lab to the...
Engineers react with surprise while testing how NASA's Perseverance rover will deposit its sample tubes on the...
The Kunlun fault is one of the gigantic strike-slip faults that bound the north side of Tibet. Left-lateral motion...
The full-scale engineering model of NASA's Perseverance rover raises its "head," or remote sensing mast, at NASA's...
A vantage point on "Vera Rubin Ridge" provided NASA's Curiosity Mars rover this detailed look back over the area...
Climbing "Vera Rubin Ridge" provided NASA's Curiosity Mars rover this sweeping vista of the interior and rim of Gale...
ISS034-E-057550 (28 Feb. 2013) --- One of the Expedition 34 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International...
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured a historic group selfie with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on April 6, 2021. But...