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Satellite news trucks crowd the parking lots at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Aug. 5, 2012, in preparation for the Curiosity rover’s landing on Mars.
Media Trucks Descend on JPL
This is an artist's concept of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory aeroshell capsule as it enters the Martian atmosphere.
Curiosity Inside Aeroshell, Artist's Concept
The men and women behind the dramatic landing of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in August 2012 were honored with the 2012 Robert J. Collier Trophy from the National Aeronautics Association.
Team Behind Curiosity Receives Collier Trophy
Clara Ma, winner of the Mars Science Laboratory naming contest.
Clara Ma, winner MSL naming contest
Send Your Name to Mars microchip location, taken prior to the launch of NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover. More than 1.2 million names were submitted on our web site over a one year period! Some 20,000 ...
Send Your Name to Mars Chips Location
This mosaic of images from the Navigation Camera (Navcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows the terrain surrounding the rover's position on the 524th Martian day, or sol, of the mission (Jan. 26...
Full-Circle Vista During Curiosity's Approach to 'Dingo Gap'
This image shows the tracks left by NASA's Curiosity rover on Aug. 22, 2012, as it completed its first test drive on Mars.
Making Tracks on Mars
A web of shadows stretches across the 197-foot-tall United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket as the early morning sun shines through a metal lightning mast (left) at Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Ca...
Sunshine Drapes Atlas V Rocket
This May 11, 2016, self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Okoruso" drilling site on lower Mount Sharp's "Naukluft Plateau." The scene is a mosaic of multiple images...
Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Okoruso' Drill Hole
Large Parachute for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory
Large Parachute for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory
Employees gathered one level above monitor the progress of the protective mesh container known as the "gorilla cage," holding the multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator (MMRTG) for NAS...
Installing the MMRTG Power Source
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity held its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera about 10.5 inches (27 centimeters) away from the top of a rock called "Bathurst Inlet" for a set of eight images combined i...
'Bathurst Inlet' Rock on Curiosity's Sol 54, Context View
At 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
Curiosity will have to survive the extreme temperatures of Mars. Is the rover ready? Engineers put it through thermal tests to find out.
Mars Rover Goes From Shake to Bake
This map traces where NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drove between landing at a site subsequently named "Bradbury Landing," and the position reached during the mission's 123rd Martian day, or sol, (De...
Curiosity Traverse Map, Sol 123
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
A crane is attached to the first stage of the Atlas V rocket for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission upon its arrival at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 on Cap...
Atlas V Arrives at Launch Pad
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians work beneath NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission aeroshell, (containing the compact car-s...
Prepping Curiosity for Launch
Five decades of successful NASA missions to the Red Planet, 1965-2015.
50 Years of Mars Exploration
A group of teachers discusses solutions to a problem-solving activity at the Aug. 5, 2012, Curiosity Educator Workshop at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Problem Solving Teacher Activity
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians work beneath NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission aeroshell, (containing the compact car-s...
Final Touches on Curiosity
Goddard scientist Jennifer Eigenbrode injected a chemical into a rock sample and then heated the test tube to determine whether the sample-preparation method preserved the sample's molecular struct...
Scientist Jennifer Eigenbrode injecting a chemical into a rock sample
This image from the front Hazcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the rover's drill in place during a test of whether the rock beneath it, "Bonanza King," would be an acceptable target for dril...
Candidate Drilling Target on Mars Doesn't Pass Exam
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover autonomously selects some targets for the laser and telescopic camera of its ChemCam instrument. For example, on-board software analyzed the Navcam image at left, chose ...
Autonomous Selection of a Rover's Laser Target on Mars
The Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of "Vera Rubin Ridge" about two weeks before the rover starting to ascend this steep ridge on lower Mount Sharp.
Looking Up at Layers of 'Vera Rubin Ridge' on Sol 1790
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