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The north polar cap is visible in this projection at the top of the image from NASA's Viking Orbiter 1, the great equatorial canyon system (Valles Marineris) below center, and four huge Tharsis volcanoes (and several smaller ones) at left.

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Curiosity Works Its Robotic Arm During Sunset

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

Sep 22, 2025
Curiosity Views Gale Crater’s Rim, Homing in on Ancient River Channel

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

Sep 17, 2025
Curiosity’s ChemCam Views Summit and Cliffs Beyond Gale Crater

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

Sep 17, 2025
Curiosity’s ChemCam Views Ancient River Channel Peace Vallis

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

Sep 17, 2025
Perseverance’s PIXL Finds Vivianite, Greigite in ‘Cheyava Falls’ Sample

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

Sep 10, 2025
Perseverance’s SHERLOC Finds Organic Molecules in ‘Bright Angel’

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

Sep 10, 2025
Impactor Debris Scattered Within Mars’ Mantle (Artist’s Concept)

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

Aug 28, 2025
Giant Impacts on Ancient Mars (Artist’s Concept)

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

Aug 28, 2025
NASA’s Perseverance Rover at ‘Falbreen’

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

Aug 6, 2025
Curiosity’s ChemCam Views a Rock Shaped Like Coral

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

Aug 4, 2025
Curiosity Views a Martian Rock Shaped Like Coral

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

Aug 4, 2025
Curiosity Captures Mars Landscape While Talking to an Orbiter

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

Aug 4, 2025
Europa Clipper Team Produces Radargram From Mars Flyby Data

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

Aug 1, 2025
The 33 Sample Tubes Collected by Perseverance

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

Jul 24, 2025
Europa Clipper Captures Mars, Phobos, and Deimos

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

Jul 24, 2025
JPL on the Red Planet

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

Jul 8, 2025
A Martian Tribute on Perseverance

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

Jul 2, 2025
Old Glory on the Red Planet

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

Jul 1, 2025
SHARAD’s View of Mars During a ‘Very Large Roll’

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

Jun 26, 2025
MRO’s ‘Very Large Roll,’ Animated

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

Jun 26, 2025
Perseverance’s gDRT Gets a Test Under Vaccuum

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

Jun 25, 2025
Perseverance Rover’s Abrading Bit

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

Jun 25, 2025
Zooming in on Perseverance Rover’s ‘Kenmore’ Abrasion Patch

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

Jun 25, 2025
Perseverance Drills a Rock on Jezero Crater Rim

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

Jun 25, 2025
Curiosity’s First 360-Degree View of Boxwork Patterns

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

Jun 23, 2025
Curiosity Views a Fractured Boxwork Pattern Up Close

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

Jun 23, 2025
Curiosity Views Boxwork Patterns at a Distance

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

Jun 23, 2025
THEMIS Views Mars’ Arsia Mons Volcano

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

Jun 6, 2025
Dust Devil Photobombs Perseverance’s Selfie

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

May 21, 2025
Perseverance Rover Says Goodbye to ‘Witch Hazel Hill’

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

May 19, 2025
Perseverance Views Deimos Before Sunrise

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

May 15, 2025
Dust Devil Whirls by Perseverance Coring Operation

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

May 14, 2025
Europa Clipper Captures Infrared Image of Mars (Color Added)

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

May 12, 2025
Mars in Infrared, Captured by NASA’s Europa Clipper

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

May 12, 2025
Curiosity Looks Downslope From the Sulfate Unit

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

Apr 24, 2025
Curiosity on the Road to Boxwork Formations

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

Apr 24, 2025
HiRISE Views Curiosity During a Drive

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

Apr 24, 2025
Curiosity Surveys the ‘Ubajara’ Sampling Site on Mars

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

Apr 17, 2025
‘Green Gardens’ Sample in Tube

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

Apr 10, 2025
Perseverance Cores ‘Main River’

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

Apr 10, 2025
Christmas at Crater Rim

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

Apr 10, 2025
Perserverance Captures Crater Rim Dust Devil Eating Its Own

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

Apr 3, 2025
Perseverance and SHERLOC’s Calibration Target

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

Mar 26, 2025
Curiosity Views Twilight Clouds

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

Feb 11, 2025
HiRISE Views Impact Crater Matching InSight’s Seismic Data

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

Feb 3, 2025
MRO’s HiRISE Views Frosty Martian Dunes

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

Dec 20, 2024
MARDI Peeks Under Curiosity

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

Dec 19, 2024
Curiosity Surveys ‘Texoli’

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

Dec 16, 2024
HiRISE Studies the Dust on InSight

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

Dec 16, 2024
View of Rover Driving Software During a Slippery Drive

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

Dec 12, 2024
Perseverance Navcam Movie of a Slippery Drive

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

Dec 12, 2024
Jezero Crater Elevation Graph

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

Dec 12, 2024
Perseverance Reaches ‘Lookout Hill’

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

Dec 12, 2024
Perseverance Makes Tracks at ‘Rio Chiquito’

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

Dec 12, 2024
Perseverance Views ‘Pico Turquino Hills’

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

Dec 12, 2024
Perseverance’s View From ‘Lookout Hill’

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

Dec 12, 2024
Proposed Route of Perseverance’s Northern Rim Science Campaign

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

Dec 12, 2024
Perseverance Views Slippery Terrain

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

Dec 12, 2024
Proposed Route of Perseverance’s Northern Rim Science Campaign

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

Dec 12, 2024
NASA’s Mars Chopper Concept (Rendering)

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

Dec 11, 2024
Ingenuity’s Hard Landing

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

Dec 11, 2024
Curiosity Views the Yardang Unit

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

Nov 18, 2024
Curiosity’s View Within Gediz Vallis Channel

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

Nov 18, 2024
HiRISE Views Mount Sharp’s Boxwork

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

Nov 18, 2024
Curiosity Takes a Last Look at Sulfur Stones

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

Nov 18, 2024
Curiosity Makes Rover Tracks While Heading West

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

Nov 18, 2024
NASA’s Perseverance Observes ‘Observation Rock’

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

Nov 7, 2024
Perseverance Captures Transit of Phobos

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

Oct 30, 2024
Tracks Tell Tale of Perseverance’s Crater Rim Climb

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

Oct 28, 2024
Perseverance Drives Backward Up Jezero Crater’s Rim

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

Oct 28, 2024
Perseverance’s Mid-Climb View of Jezero Crater

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

Oct 28, 2024
Dusty Water Ice in Mars’ Dao Vallis

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

Oct 10, 2024
Dusty Water Ice in Mars’ Terra Sirenum

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

Oct 10, 2024
NASA’s Perseverance Is Going Up and Up

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

Sep 13, 2024
Curiosity Views Earth Setting, Phobos Rising

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

Sep 13, 2024
Perseverance’s Location at the Base of Jezero Crater’s Rim

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

Aug 27, 2024
Curiosity’s 42 Drill Holes

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

Aug 27, 2024
Perseverance’s Climb to ‘Witch Hazel Hill’

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

Aug 14, 2024
Perseverance Rover’s View Up Crater

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

Aug 14, 2024
Perseverance Looks Back at ‘Bright Angel’

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

Aug 14, 2024
Perseverance’s Selfie With ‘Cheyava Falls’

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

Jul 25, 2024
Mastcam-Z Views the ‘Cheyava Falls’ Workspace

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

Jul 25, 2024
Mastcam-Z Views ‘Leopard Spots’ in Perseverance’s Drill Bit

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

Jul 25, 2024
Perseverance Captures ‘Bright Angel’ in 360 Degrees

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

Jul 25, 2024
Perseverance Finds a Rock With ‘Leopard Spots’

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

Jul 25, 2024
Curiosity’s Detailed View of ‘Fascination Turret’

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

Jul 18, 2024
Curiosity Takes a 360-Degree View of Gediz Vallis Channel

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

Jul 18, 2024
Curiosity Captures Close-Up of Sulfur Crystals

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

Jul 18, 2024
Curiosity Views Rocks With ‘Halos’

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

Jul 18, 2024
Curiosity Views Gediz Vallis Channel

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

Jul 18, 2024
Curiosity Views Rock Made of Sulfur at ‘Snow Lake’

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

Jul 18, 2024
Curiosity Views Sulfur Crystals Within a Crushed Rock

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

Jul 18, 2024
Perseverance’s PIXL Instrument Examines ‘Thunderbolt Peak’

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

Jul 16, 2024
Odyssey’s Accomplishments at Its 100,000th Orbit

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

Jun 27, 2024
Odyssey’s THEMIS Views Olympus Mons

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

Jun 27, 2024
Perseverance’s Abrasion Patch at ‘Walhalla Glades’

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

Jun 26, 2024
Moving the Lens Cover on Perseverance’s SHERLOC

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

Jun 26, 2024
Checking the Cover on Perseverance’s SHERLOC

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

Jun 26, 2024
Perseverance Views ‘Bright Angel’

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

Jun 13, 2024
Perseverance’s View of Neretva Vallis River Channel

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

Jun 13, 2024