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This set of images shows the results from the rock abrasion tool from NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity left...
Offgas Testing at White Sands Test Facility identifies and quantifies the volatile offgassed products from materials...
This calibration target for Mars 2020's Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics &...
In this test image by SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals),...
The SHERLOC instrument is located at the end of the robotic arm on NASA's Mars 2020 rover. SHERLOC (short for...
jsc2024e055764 (July 26, 2024) -- Dr. Jon Olansen discusses lunar habitation during the "Living the Lunar Life"...
This annotated mosaic depicts a possible route the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover could take across Jezero Crater as...
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has been hard at work using the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter can be seen on the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 26, 2021, the 36th...
For decades, planetary scientists have suspected that ancient Mars was a much warmer, wetter environment than it is...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter extends vertically into place after being rotated outward from its horizontal...
This graphic shows an illustration of a prototype astronaut suit, left, along with suit samples included in the...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter can be seen on the belly of the Perseverance rover, ready to be dropped off at the...
In this image taken on July 11, 2019, engineers at JPL install a sensor-filled turret on the end of the rover's...
Materials engineer Thomas Lipscomb tests a 3D printer on July 28, 2022, at Swamp Works at NASA’s Kennedy Space...
A team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida tests a 3D printer on July 28, 2022, at the Florida spaceport’s...
Chemist Tesia Irwin tests a 3D printer on July 28, 2022, at Swamp Works at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
iss049e035512 (10/14/2016) --- NASA astronaut Kate Rubins during Microbe IV Sampling Sheet and White Tube Collection...
Shown is a Zero Launch Mass 3D printer on July 28, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center’s Swamp Works. A team at the...
By providing a set of base measurements that were taken on Earth, this calibration target will help fine-tune the...
Chemist Tesia Irwin tests a 3D printer on July 28, 2022, at Swamp Works at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
A team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida tests a 3D printer on July 28, 2022, at the Florida spaceport’s...
S98-00157 --- A mock-up of TransHab, the large-volume inflatable space vehicle, is seen during 1998 testing at the...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this view of an area the Mars Perseverance rover team calls "Raised...