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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been busy taking more images of its own, such as this one taken 24 hours after landing that reveals the fate of the various pieces of the original spacecraft.
There might’ve been life on Mars after all. Although it resembles a coral typically found at the bottom of the ocean, it was ...
This photo shows the shadow of NASA's huge rover Curiosity on Mars just after its Aug. 5 PDT, 2012 landing in Gale Crater. This image is an enlarged version from the original 256-pixel image.
A shiny-looking Martian rock is visible in this image taken by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the mission's 173rd Martian day, or sol (Jan. 30, 2013). Read the full story.
ASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Curiosity's journey to Mars spanned eight months and 352 million miles. The rover gently touched down Sunday night after executing an elaborate and untested landing routine.
NASA says new images and data are ‘raising new questions about how the Martian surface was changing billions of years ago’ ...
The Curiosity rover took the photos over the weekend using its Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, which is a focusable color camera attached to an instrument turret at the end of Curiosity's 7-foot ...
Within seconds of landing, Mars rover Curiosity was sending images of one of Curiosity’s wheels on the Martian surface. Basically, the rover worked perfectly — exactly the way Mission Control ...
A full-circle view released by NASA on June 20, 2013, combined nearly 900 images taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, generating a panorama with 1.3 billion pixels in the full-resolution version.
Landing a rover on Mars is not easy – others have tried –- only America has fully succeeded." And finally, here's a photo of Curiosity's Science Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument.
Curiosity snapped the Mars night photos in visible and ultraviolet light on Wednesday (Jan. 22) to take an up-close look at a rock called "Sayunei," which the rover had scuffed with a wheel to ...
The stunning new Mars photos by Curiosity show detailed views of its wheels and underbelly, a self-portrait of the robot's head-like camera mast and even a snapshot of an odd bit of Americana ...