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This mosaic image shows the first target NASA Curiosity rover aims to zap ChemCam instrument. ChemCam will be firing...
NASA Curiosity Mars rover provided this nighttime view of a hole produced by the rover drill and, inside the hole, a...
This image shows where NASA Curiosity rover aimed two different instruments to study a rock known as Jake Matijevic....
NASA Curiosity Mars rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager MAHLI camera on its arm to catch the first images of sparks...
This composite image, with magnified insets, depicts the first laser test by the Chemistry and Camera, or ChemCam,...
This mosaic shows various scenes captured from a location called "Housedon Hill" by the ChemCam instrument aboard...
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is equipped with two microphones that, if all goes as planned, will capture the...
The dark, golf-ball-size object in this composite, colorized view from the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument...
The dark, smooth-surfaced object at the center of this Oct. 30, 2016, image from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's...
On May 18, 2022, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used an artificial intelligence software called Autonomous...
Listen closely to new sounds from Mars recorded by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, including puffs and pings from a...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover autonomously selects some of the targets for the laser and telescopic camera of the...
This composite image, made from four taken by the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on August 8,...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is viewed here through the Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI) camera, part of the...
These images and overlay bar charts from the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its abrasion tool to grind down the rock surface at this target, nicknamed...
This composite image of the "Delta Scarp" in Mars' Jezero Crater was generated using data from two imagers aboard...
Composed of five images, this mosaic of the Jezero Crater's "Delta Scarp" was taken on March 17, 2021, by the Remote...
This map shows all the quadrant themes for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently in the Roraima quadrant...
The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover examined a freshly brushed area on...
Since landing on the Red Planet, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has been hard at work analyzing rocks and soil...
The Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI) camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took these zoomed-in images of the...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover carries two microphones which are directly recording sounds on the Red Planet,...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rock target nicknamed "Quartier" with the WATSON (Wide Angle...