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June 05, 2014
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Scientist Rob Sullivan explores the Dumont Dunes area, on the hunt for the best place to test-drive the Scarecrow rover.
Desolate Landscape
Curiosity's DAN instrument for checking hydration levels in the ground beneath the rover detected an unusually high amount at a site near "Marias Pass," prompting repeated passes over the area to m...
Curiosity Finds Hydrogen-Rich Area of Mars Subsurface
This wide panorama was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Dec. 19, 2019, the 2,620th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. On the righthand foreground is Western Butte; the ridge with a crusty ...
Curiosity Captures a Spaghetti Western Landscape on Mars
This artist's concept shows the sky crane maneuver during the descent of NASA's Curiosity rover to the Martian surface.
Curiosity's Sky Crane Maneuver, Artist's Concept
This map shows the route driven by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity through the 43rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Sept. 19, 2012).
Curiosity Traverse Map Through Sol 43
This engineering animation depicts the moves that NASA's rover Curiosity made on Sept. 22, 2012, when the rover touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time. Curiosity examined th...
First Rock Contact by Curiosity's Arm
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians process the backshell for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL).
Preparing the Backshell
This mosaic from the Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover shows a close-up view looking toward the "Glenelg" area, where three different terrain types come together.
Dark Bands Run Through Light Layers (Annotated)
A NASA Dryden Flight Research Center F/A-18 852 aircraft performs a roll during a dive toward Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., during June 2011 flight tests of a Mars landing radar.
Flight Testing the Landing Radar for Mars Science Laboratory
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured evidence of layers that built up as windblown sand both accumulated and was scoured away at a location nicknamed “Las Claritas.” This image was captured using C...
Curiosity's Mastcam Views Layers at 'Las Claritas'
Mars Science Laboratory team member Jessica Samuels gives a progress report on Curiosity's first days on Mars.
Surface Operations Begin
Arm and Mast of NASA Mars Rover Curiosity
Arm and Mast of NASA Mars Rover Curiosity
On this image of the broken rock called "Tintina," color coding maps the amount of mineral hydration indicated by a ratio of near-infrared reflectance intensities measured by the Mast Camera (Mastc...
Hydration Map, Based on Mastcam Spectra, for broken rock 'Tintina'
Two miniature satellites will be hitching a ride to the Red Planet to get a front row seat for InSight 's landing on Mars.
MarCO: First Interplanetary CubeSat Mission
This 360-degree panorama from the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the rugged surface of 'Naukluft Plateau' plus upper Mount Sharp at right and part of the rim of Gale Crater. The April...
Full-Circle Vista from 'Naukluft Plateau' on Mars
This image is the first high-resolution color mosaic from NASA's Curiosity rover, showing the geological environment around the rover's landing site in Gale Crater on Mars.
First High-Resolution Color Mosaic of Curiosity's Mastcam Images
This diagram depicts rivers entering a lake. Where the water's flow decelerates, sediments drop out, and a delta forms, depositing a prism of sediment that tapers out toward the lake's interior. Pr...
How a Delta Forms Where River Meets Lake
NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, drives up a ramp during a test at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., on Sept. 10, 2010.
Ramp Drive Test for Curiosity Mars Rover
The network of cracks in this Martian rock slab called "Old Soaker" may have formed from the drying of a mud layer more than 3 billion years ago. The view spans about 3 feet (90 centimeters) left-t...
Possible Mud Cracks Preserved in Martian Rock
Engineers just installed six new wheels on the Curiosity rover, and rotated all six wheels at once on July 9, 2010.
Curiosity Spins Its Wheels
The graph at right presents information from the NASA Curiosity Mars rover's onboard analysis of rock powder drilled from the "Buckskin" target location, shown at left.
'Buckskin' Drill Hole and CheMin X-ray Diffraction
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drove about 70 feet (about 21 meters) on the mission's 21st Martian day, or sol (Aug. 30, 2012) and then took images with its Navigation Camera that are combined into th...
Looking Back at Tracks from Sol 24 Drive
This image from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows inclined layering known as cross-bedding in an outcrop called "Shaler" on a scale of a few tenths of meters, or decime...
'Shaler' Unit's Evidence of Stream Flow
Data graphed here from the Chemistry and Camera (CheMin) instrument on NASA's Mars Curiosity rover show a difference between clay minerals in powder drilled from mudstone outcrops at two locations ...
Detecting a Difference in Clay Minerals at Two Gale Crater Sites
The NASA Mars rover Curiosity used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) during the mission's 120th Martian day, or sol (Dec. 7, 2012), to record the seven images combined into this panoramic view.
Sol 120 Panorama from Curiosity, near 'Shaler'
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