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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of its robotic arm during sunset on Sept. 16, 2025.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama under exceptionally clear conditions of Gale Crater's northern rim on Aug. 25, 2025.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a mountain nearly 57 miles (91 kilometers) away and outside of Gale…

Dark rocky outcrops can be seen within Peace Vallis in a set of 10 images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover generated this mineral map showing the presence of two minerals on the surface of a rock…

This graph displays data collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover from targets in a rock formation nicknamed Bright Angel.

A cutaway view of Mars reveals debris from ancient impacts scattered through the planet's mantle. A meteoroid impact sends seismic…

Scientists believe giant impacts occurred on Mars 4.5 billion years ago, injecting debris from the impact deep into the planet's…

Captured at a location called Falbreen, on May 26, 2025, 96 images were stitched together to create this 360-degree view.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the Remote Micro Imager, part of its ChemCam instrument, to view this wind-eroded rock shaped…

Curiosity viewed this rock shaped like a piece of coral on July 24, 2025. The rover has found many rocks…

This view of tracks trailing behind NASA's Curiosity was captured while the rover simultaneously relayed data to a Mars orbiter.

Europa Clipper's radar instrument received echoes of its very-high-frequency radar signals that bounced off Mars and were processed to develop…

Shown here is an annotated composite image of the interiors of the 33 tubes NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has used…

NASA's Europa Clipper captured this infrared image of the heat radiation from Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos on…

This close-up view of the JPL logo, bolted to the chassis of NASA's Perseverance, was acquired on June 28, 2025.

This close-up view of a plate on NASA's Perseverance rover commemorating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and paying tribute…

This close-up view of the United States flag plate on NASA's Perseverance was acquired on June 28, 2025, by the…

These two radargrams from the SHARAD instrument on NASA's MRO reveal how the spacecraft's new very large roll maneuver produces…

This animation depicts NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter performing a 120-degree roll that increases the strength of its radar signal by…

This video captures a test of Perseverance's Gaseous Dust Removal Tool (gDRT) in a vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion…

Perseverance's gold-colored abrading bit takes center stage in this image of the rover's drill taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument on…

This close-up view of an abrasion showing distinctive tool marks created by the Perseverance's abrading bit was acquired on June…

Before drilling into the rocky outcrop nicknamed Kenmore, Perseverance abraded the rock to determine whether it was worthy of drilling.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree view after arriving at a region crisscrossed by hardened low ridges called boxwork…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover viewed this low ridge, which looks a bit like a crumbling curb, on May 16. Scientists…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this scene while looking out across a region filled with boxwork patterns, low ridges that…

Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter…

NASA's Perseverance took this selfie on May 10, 2025. The small puff of dust left of center and below the…

One of the navigation cameras on NASA's Perseverance captured the rover's tracks coming from an area called Witch Hazel Hill,…

NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27…

A dust devil whirled by in the distance as one of the cameras on NASA's Perseverance captured the Mars rover…

This picture of Mars is a colorized composite of several images captured by Europa Clipper's thermal imager.

This picture of Mars is a composite of several images captured by Europa Clipper's thermal imager on March 1, 2025.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view looking back down at the floor of Gale Crater from its location on…

This panorama, made up of 122 individual images stitched together, was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on November 18,…

NASA's Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover sees its tracks receding into the distance at a site nicknamed Ubajara on April 30, 2023.

Sealing the Green Gardens sample, collected by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, presented an engineering challenge. The sample was finally sealed…

One of Perseverance's hazard cameras captured the rover's coring drill collecting the Main River rock sample on Witch Hazel Hill…

This mosaic showing the Martian surface outside of Jezero Crater was taken by NASA's Perseverance on Dec. 25, 2024, at…

A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming its smaller friend in this short video made of images taken at…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover carries a calibration target consisting of five swatches of spacesuit materials that scientists are studying as…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured these drifting noctilucent, or twilight, clouds in a 16-minute recording on Jan. 17, 2025.

Captured by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 4, 2021, this impact crater was found in…

Surrounded by frost, these Martian dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere were captured from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using…

This pair of images shows the Martian surface captured by NASA's Curiosity rover using its Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) camera…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its right Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama on Nov. 26, 2024, the…

NASA's InSight Mars lander acquires the same reddish-brown hue as the rest of the planet in a set of images…

This animation captured from NASA's rover driving software depicts the agency's Perseverance during a slippery drive as it ascends toward…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of slippery terrain while ascending to the rim of Jezero Crater on Nov.…

This graph shows the relative elevation of various sampling sites visited by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.

This map shows the location of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 10, 2024, in which it reached Lookout…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of an area nicknamed Rio Chiquito on…

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this panorama of a location nicknamed Pico Turquino Hills…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of Jezero Crater…

This animation shows the position of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 4, 2024.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this scene showing the slippery terrain that's made its climb up to the rim of…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this view as it was ascending to the rim…

NASA's Mars Chopper concept, shown in a design software rendering, is a more capable proposed follow-on to the agency's Ingenuity…

This graphic depicts the most likely scenario for the hard landing of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 72nd and…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a geological region called the Yardang Unit using its Mast Camera, or…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama within Gediz Vallis channel on Sept.…

Scientists think that ancient groundwater formed this weblike pattern of ridges, called boxwork, that were captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this last look at a field of bright white sulfur stones on Oct. 11, 2024,…

Curiosity captured this panorama using its Mastcam while heading west away from Gediz Vallis channel on Nov. 2, 2024. The…

This mosaic showing Observation Rock was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA's Perseverance rover. The location is near an…

NASA's Perseverance rover captured the silhouette of the Martian moon Phobos as it passed in front of the Sun on…

Tracks shown in this image indicate the slipperiness of the terrain Perseverance has encountered during its climb up the rim…

NASA's Perseverance drives first backward then forward as it negotiates some slippery terrain found along a route up to the…

This enhanced-color mosaic was taken on Sept. 27, 2024 by the Perseverance rover while climbing the western wall of Jezero…

The white material seen within this gully is believed to be dusty water ice in a Martian region called Dao…

This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows white material believed to be dusty water ice lining the edges…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is on its ascent to the rim of Jezero Crater, and it captured a portion of…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of Earth setting while Phobos, one…

This view of the western edge of Mars' Jezero Crater shows the steep crater rim. A blue icon shows Perseverance's…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected 42 powderized rock samples with the drill on the end of its robotic arm.

This map shows the route NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will take (in blue) as it climbs the western rim of…

This panorama shows the area NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will climb in coming months to crest Jezero Crater's rim. It…

One of the navigation cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view looking back at the Bright Angel area…

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23, 2024. A rock nicknamed…

Cheyava Falls (left) shows the dark hole where NASA's Perseverance took a core sample. A rock nicknamed Steamboat Mountain (right)…

NASA's Perseverance used its Mastcam-Z instrument to view the Cheyava Falls rock sample within the rover's drill bit.

NASA's Perseverance rover used its Mastcam-Z instrument to capture this 360-degree panorama of a region on Mars called Bright Angel.…

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered leopard spots on a reddish rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls in Mars' Jezero Crater in July 2024.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this detailed view of jagged rocks and sediment…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to take this 360-degree panorama from within Gediz Vallis channel…

These sulfur crystals were found inside a rock after NASA's Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush…

While exploring Gediz Vallis channel in May, NASA's Curiosity captured this image (Figure C) of rocks that show a pale…

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of Gediz Vallis channel on March 31. This area was likely formed by…

NASA's Curiosity captured this close-up image of a rock nicknamed Snow Lake on June 8, 2024. Nine days earlier, the…

These yellow crystals were revealed after NASA's Curiosity happened to drive over a rock and crack it open on May…

This image of a rock target nicknamed Thunderbolt Peak was created by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using PIXL, which determines…

This infographic highlights just how much data and how many images NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has collected in its…

NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captured this single image of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, on…

This image of NASA's Perseverance rover gathering data on the Walhalla Glades abrasion was taken in the Bright Angel region…

The cover for the Autofocus and Context Imager camera on SHERLOC is seen moving in images captured by the rover's…

Imagery captured by a navigation camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover shows the position of a cover on the SHERLOC instrument.…

NASA's Perseverance rover was traveling in the ancient Neretva Vallis river channel when it captured this view of an area…

Perseverance captured this mosaic looking downstream of the dune-filled Neretva Vallis river channel on May 17, 2024. The channel fed…






