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Five decades of successful NASA missions to the Red Planet, 1965-2015.
50 Years of Mars Exploration
This graph compares a typical daily pattern of changing atmospheric pressure (blue) with the pattern during a regional dust storm hundreds of miles away (red).
Atmospheric Pressure Patterns Before and During Dust Storm
Curiosity used its ChemCam instrument to view Gediz Vallis Ridge, spotting boulders that are thought to have been washed down in an ancient debris flow. One reason scientists are interested in this...
ChemCam Mosaic of Gediz Vallis Ridge
This image of the northwestern portion of Mars' Gale Crater and terrain north of it, from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, provides a locator map for some features visible in an Oc...
Locator Map for Features in Curiosity Panorama
This diagram presents some of the processes and clues related to a long-ago lake on Mars that became stratified, with the shallow water richer in oxidants than deeper water was.
Diagram of Lake Stratification on Mars
The bit in the rotary-percussion drill of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity left its mark in a target patch of rock called "John Klein" during a test on the rover's 176th Martian day, or sol (Feb. 2, 201...
Preparatory Test for First Rock Drilling by Mars Rover Curiosity
This patch of bedrock, called "Cumberland," has been selected as the second target for drilling by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.
'Cumberland' Target for Drilling by Curiosity Mars Rover
This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows details of rock texture and color in an area where the rover's Dust Removal Tool (DRT) brushed away dust that ...
Zapped, Martian Rock (Annotated)
At different locations on the surface of the same rock, scientists can use the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity to measure the amount of reflected light at a series of different...
Indication of Hydration in Veins and Nodules of 'Knorr' in 'Yellowknife Bay'
These 26 holes represent each of the rock samples NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected as of early July 2020. A map in the upper left shows where the holes were drilled along the rover's route...
Curiosity's Rock Collection as of July 2020
This panorama is a mosaic of images taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on the NASA Mars rover Curiosity while the rover was working at a site called "Rocknest" in October and November 2012.
Panoramic View From 'Rocknest' Position of Curiosity Mars Rover (Raw-Color)
This view captures Curiosity's current work area where the rover continues its campaign to study an active sand dune on Mars.
Curiosity's Play Space at a Martian Sand Dune
This image from the right Mast Camera (Mastcam) of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a scoop full of sand and dust lifted by the rover's first use of the scoop on its robotic arm.
View of Curiosity's First Scoop Also Shows Bright Object
NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to create "Destination: Mars," a guided tour of Mars using the same Hololens technology that helps scientists plan the Curiosity rover's activities.
Mixed-Reality Tech Brings Mars to Earth
Curiosity location for Sol 313
Curiosity location for Sol 313
The hole that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drilled into target rock "John Klein" provided a view into the interior of the rock, as well as obtaining a sample of powdered material from the rock.
View into 'John Klein' Drill Hole in Martian Mudstone
Scientists have now named the four marks near NASA's Curiosity rover where blasts from the descent stage rocket engines blew away some of the Martian surface material.
Naming the Scour Marks
This side-by-side comparison shows the X-ray diffraction patterns of two different samples collected from rocks on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.
Signature of Hematite in 'Confidence Hills' Martian Rock
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of "Marker Band Valley" at two times of day on April 8. Color was added to a combination of both panoram...
Curiosity's 'Postcard' of 'Marker Band Valley'
This close-up view of a stone found in San Diego was taken by a testing twin -- the "life test unit" -- of the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory.
Test Close-Up of Earth Cobble by Mars Camera
Holden Crater
Holden Crater
Guided tour of the NASA Curiosity Mars rover's flight hardware at Kennedy Space Center.
Curiosity at Kennedy Space Center
Curiosity revealed a lot about Mars in her first year exploring Gale Crater. Learn more about some of her remarkable discoveries in this video from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Curiosity: A Year of Discovery
This graphic shows how navigators steering NASA's Mars Science Laboratory capsule - with the Curiosity rover tucked inside - are aiming for a pinpoint location above Mars. They liken it to threadin...
Eye of the Needle
After more than a year without the use of the Curiosity Mars rover's drill, engineers have devised a workaround and tested it for the first time on the Red Planet.
Curiosity's New Drilling Technique
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