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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-03-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover carries a calibration target consisting of five swatches of spacesuit materials that scientists are studying as they degrade.
PIA26520:
Perseverance and SHERLOC's Calibration Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured these drifting noctilucent, or twilight, clouds in a 16-minute recording on Jan. 17, 2025.
PIA26519:
Curiosity Views Twilight Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-02-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Captured by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 4, 2021, this impact crater was found in Cerberus Fossae. Scientists matched its appearance on the surface with a quake detected by NASA's InSight lander.
PIA26518:
HiRISE Views Impact Crater Matching InSight's Seismic Data
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Surrounded by frost, these Martian dunes in Mars' northern hemisphere were captured from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its HiRISE camera on Sept. 8, 2022.
PIA26517:
MRO's HiRISE Views Frosty Martian Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This pair of images shows the Martian surface captured by NASA's Curiosity rover using its Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) camera on Nov. 7, 2024, the 4,357th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA26516:
MARDI Peeks Under Curiosity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-16 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its right Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama on Nov. 26, 2024, the 4,375th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA26477:
Curiosity Surveys 'Texoli'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's InSight Mars lander acquires the same reddish-brown hue as the rest of the planet in a set of images from 2018 to 2024 that were captured by the agency's MRO HiRISE camera.
PIA26515:
HiRISE Studies the Dust on InSight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This animation captured from NASA's rover driving software depicts the agency's Perseverance during a slippery drive as it ascends toward the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater on Oct. 16, 2024.
PIA26514:
View of Rover Driving Software During a Slippery Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of slippery terrain while ascending to the rim of Jezero Crater on Nov. 28, 2024.
PIA26513:
Perseverance Navcam Movie of a Slippery Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This graph shows the relative elevation of various sampling sites visited by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA26476:
Jezero Crater Elevation Graph
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows the location of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 10, 2024, in which it reached Lookout Hill at the top of Jezero Crater's rim.
PIA26512:
Perseverance Reaches 'Lookout Hill'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture this 360-degree panorama of an area nicknamed Rio Chiquito on Nov. 23, 2024.
PIA26474:
Perseverance Makes Tracks at 'Rio Chiquito'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this panorama of a location nicknamed Pico Turquino Hills on Oct. 22, 2024.
PIA26473:
Perseverance Views 'Pico Turquino Hills'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2024.
PIA26511:
Perseverance's View From 'Lookout Hill'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This animation shows the position of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 4, 2024.
PIA26480:
Proposed Route of Perseverance's Northern Rim Science Campaign
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this scene showing the slippery terrain that's made its climb up to the rim of Jezero Crater challenging.
PIA26479:
Perseverance Views Slippery Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to capture this view as it was ascending to the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 5, 2024.
PIA26475:
Proposed Route of Perseverance's Northern Rim Science Campaign
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-11 Mars 5000x3026x3
NASA's Mars Chopper concept, shown in a design software rendering, is a more capable proposed follow-on to the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
PIA26375:
NASA's Mars Chopper Concept (Rendering)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-11 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This graphic depicts the most likely scenario for the hard landing of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 72nd and final flight on Jan. 18, 2024.
PIA26482:
Ingenuity's Hard Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a geological region called the Yardang Unit using its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on Nov. 2, 2024.
PIA26472:
Curiosity Views the Yardang Unit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama within Gediz Vallis channel on Sept. 21 and 22, 2024.
PIA26410:
Curiosity's View Within Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Scientists think that ancient groundwater formed this weblike pattern of ridges, called boxwork, that were captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Dec. 10, 2006.
PIA26306:
HiRISE Views Mount Sharp's Boxwork
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this last look at a field of bright white sulfur stones on Oct. 11, 2024, before leaving Gediz Vallis channel.
PIA26210:
Curiosity Takes a Last Look at Sulfur Stones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Curiosity captured this panorama using its Mastcam while heading west away from Gediz Vallis channel on Nov. 2, 2024. The Mars rover's tracks across the rocky terrain are visible at right.
PIA26471:
Curiosity Makes Rover Tracks While Heading West
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This mosaic showing Observation Rock was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA's Perseverance rover. The location is near an area the Perseverance science team is calling Curtis Ridge.
PIA26481:
NASA's Perseverance Observes 'Observation Rock'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-30 Phobos Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover captured the silhouette of the Martian moon Phobos as it passed in front of the Sun on Sept. 30, 2024.
PIA26380:
Perseverance Captures Transit of Phobos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-28 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Tracks shown in this image indicate the slipperiness of the terrain Perseverance has encountered during its climb up the rim of Jezero Crater.
PIA26379:
Tracks Tell Tale of Perseverance's Crater Rim Climb
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-28 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance drives first backward then forward as it negotiates some slippery terrain found along a route up to the rim of Jezero Crater on Oct. 15, 2024.
PIA26377:
Perseverance Drives Backward Up Jezero Crater's Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-28 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Mastcam-Z
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This enhanced-color mosaic was taken on Sept. 27, 2024 by the Perseverance rover while climbing the western wall of Jezero Crater.
PIA26378:
Perseverance's Mid-Climb View of Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The white material seen within this gully is believed to be dusty water ice in a Martian region called Dao Vallis, captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
PIA26408:
Dusty Water Ice in Mars' Dao Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-10-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows white material believed to be dusty water ice lining the edges of Martian gullies in a region named Terra Sirenum.
PIA26407:
Dusty Water Ice in Mars' Terra Sirenum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is on its ascent to the rim of Jezero Crater, and it captured a portion of the journey with one of its navigation cameras.
PIA26376:
NASA's Perseverance Is Going Up and Up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-13 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of Earth setting while Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, is rising.
PIA26362:
Curiosity Views Earth Setting, Phobos Rising
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
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This view of the western edge of Mars' Jezero Crater shows the steep crater rim. A blue icon shows Perseverance's general location as of Aug. 14, 2024. The rover began its ascent of the crater rim on Aug. 27, 2024.
PIA26402:
Perseverance's Location at the Base of Jezero Crater's Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-27 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected 42 powderized rock samples with the drill on the end of its robotic arm.
PIA26403:
Curiosity's 42 Drill Holes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows the route NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will take (in blue) as it climbs the western rim of Jezero Crater.
PIA26374:
Perseverance's Climb to 'Witch Hazel Hill'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-14 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This panorama shows the area NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will climb in coming months to crest Jezero Crater's rim. It is made up of 59 images taken by the rover's Mastcam-Z on Aug. 4, 2024.
PIA26373:
Perseverance Rover's View Up Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-08-14 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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One of the navigation cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view looking back at the Bright Angel area on July 30, 2024.
PIA26372:
Perseverance Looks Back at 'Bright Angel'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23, 2024. A rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls is to the left of the rover near the center of the image.
PIA26344:
Perseverance's Selfie With 'Cheyava Falls'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Cheyava Falls (left) shows the dark hole where NASA's Perseverance took a core sample. A rock nicknamed Steamboat Mountain (right) also shows an abrasion patch. This image was taken by Mastcam-Z on July 23, 2024.
PIA26401:
Mastcam-Z Views the 'Cheyava Falls' Workspace
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance used its Mastcam-Z instrument to view the Cheyava Falls rock sample within the rover's drill bit.
PIA26370:
Mastcam-Z Views 'Leopard Spots' in Perseverance's Drill Bit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover used its Mastcam-Z instrument to capture this 360-degree panorama of a region on Mars called Bright Angel. Cheyava Falls was discovered in the area slightly right of center.
PIA26369:
Perseverance Captures 'Bright Angel' in 360 Degrees
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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NASA's Perseverance rover discovered leopard spots on a reddish rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls in Mars' Jezero Crater in July 2024.
PIA26368:
Perseverance Finds a Rock With 'Leopard Spots'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this detailed view of jagged rocks and sediment exposed along the side of a mound called Fascination Turret.
PIA26364:
Curiosity's Detailed View of 'Fascination Turret'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to take this 360-degree panorama from within Gediz Vallis channel on June 19, 2024.
PIA26363:
Curiosity Takes a 360-Degree View of Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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These sulfur crystals were found inside a rock after NASA's Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush it on May 30, 2024.
PIA26307:
Curiosity Captures Close-Up of Sulfur Crystals
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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While exploring Gediz Vallis channel in May, NASA's Curiosity captured this image (Figure C) of rocks that show a pale color near their edges. When groundwater leaks into rocks along fractures, it causes chemical reactions that change the color.
PIA26366:
Curiosity Views Rocks With 'Halos'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of Gediz Vallis channel on March 31. This area was likely formed by large floods of water and debris that piled jumbles of rocks into mounds within the channel.
PIA26367:
Curiosity Views Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity captured this close-up image of a rock nicknamed Snow Lake on June 8, 2024. Nine days earlier, the rover had crushed a similar-looking rock and revealed crystalline textures – and elemental sulfur – inside.
PIA26308:
Curiosity Views Rock Made of Sulfur at 'Snow Lake'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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These yellow crystals were revealed after NASA's Curiosity happened to drive over a rock and crack it open on May 30. Using an instrument on the rover's arm, scientists later determined these crystals are elemental sulfur.
PIA26309:
Curiosity Views Sulfur Crystals Within a Crushed Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-16 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image of a rock target nicknamed Thunderbolt Peak was created by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover using PIXL, which determines the mineral composition of rocks by zapping them with X-rays.
PIA26365:
Perseverance's PIXL Instrument Examines 'Thunderbolt Peak'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This infographic highlights just how much data and how many images NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has collected in its 23 years of operation around the Red Planet.
PIA26361:
Odyssey's Accomplishments at Its 100,000th Orbit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter captured this single image of Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano in the solar system, on March 11, 2024.
PIA26305:
Odyssey's THEMIS Views Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Hazard Avoidance Camera (M2020)
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This image of NASA's Perseverance rover gathering data on the Walhalla Glades abrasion was taken in the Bright Angel region of Jezero Crater by one of the rover's front hazard avoidance cameras on June 14, 2024.
PIA26320:
Perseverance's Abrasion Patch at 'Walhalla Glades'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The cover for the Autofocus and Context Imager camera on SHERLOC is seen moving in images captured by the rover's Mastcam-Z instrument on May 11, 2024.
PIA26338:
Moving the Lens Cover on Perseverance's SHERLOC
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Navigation Camera (M2020)
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Imagery captured by a navigation camera aboard NASA's Perseverance rover shows the position of a cover on the SHERLOC instrument. The cover became stuck in January but the rover team has found a way to address the issue for continued operation.
PIA26339:
Checking the Cover on Perseverance's SHERLOC
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover was traveling in the ancient Neretva Vallis river channel when it captured this view of an area of scientific interest named Bright Angel with one of its navigation cameras on June 6, 2024.
PIA26336:
Perseverance Views 'Bright Angel'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance captured this mosaic looking downstream of the dune-filled Neretva Vallis river channel on May 17, 2024. The channel fed Jezero Crater with fresh water billions of years ago.
PIA26335:
Perseverance's View of Neretva Vallis River Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This map shows Perseverance's path between Jan. 21 and June 11, 2024. White dots indicate where the rover stopped after completing a traverse beside Neretva Vallis river channel. The pale blue line indicates the rover's route inside the channel.
PIA26334:
Perseverance's Path to 'Bright Angel' in Mars' Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Stitched together from 18 images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover, this mosaic shows a boulder field on Mount Washburn on May 27, 2024. The rover's science team nicknamed the rock Atoko Point.
PIA26333:
Standing Out on Mars' 'Mount Washburn'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars MAVEN
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The purple color in this animated GIF shows auroras on Mars' nightside as detected by the ultraviolet instrument aboard NASA's MAVEN orbiter between May 14 and 20, 2024. The brighter the purple, the more auroras were present.
PIA26304:
MAVEN Detects Auroras During Solar Storm in 2024
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The specks in this scene were caused by charged particles from a solar storm hitting a camera aboard NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
PIA26303:
Curiosity Sees Specks Caused By 2024 Solar Storm While Recording a Wind Gust on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured streaks and specks using one of its navigation cameras just as particles from a solar storm arrived on the Martian surface. These artifacts are caused by energetic particles hitting the camera's image detector.
PIA26302:
Curiosity Sees Streaks and Specks During 2024 Solar Storm
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This image acquired on March 16, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a field of sand dunes in the Martian springtime while the seasonal carbon dioxide frost is sublimating into the air.
PIA26330:
Defrosting Dunes
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This image acquired on February 14, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a relatively fresh crater with gullies.
PIA26329:
Gullies in the Depths of Hellas
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This image acquired on March 9, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows terrain of two distinct ages. The slopes and hilltops here are made up of rough rocky outcrop, while the valley floors are filled with smooth materials with fewer craters.
PIA26328:
Sediment Ponds in Tithonium Chasma
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This image acquired on March 18, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows bright materials, likely to be sediments rich in the hydrated sulfates, covered by a thin deposit of dark material, perhaps sand.
PIA26327:
Hydrated Sulfates in Melas Chasma
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The Ingenuity team celebrates during their final shift working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26319:
Ingenuity Team's Final Shift
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Ingenuity team lead Josh Anderson celebrates with Perseverance rover deputy project manager Steve Lee during the final shift for engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26317:
Ingenuity Fist Bump
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Teddy Tzanetos, project manager for NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, addresses members of the team during their final shift at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26316:
Ingenuity Project Manager Says Goodbye
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Ingenuity team lead Josh Anderson and project manager Teddy Tzanetos react during the final shift for engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 16, 2024.
PIA26315:
Ingenuity Team Lead All Smiles
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Engineers working on NASA's Ingenuity together monitored a transmission from the history-making helicopter in a JPL control room on April 16, 2024.
PIA26318:
Mars Helicopter Team Witnesses Final Downlink
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The 21st rock core captured by NASA's Perseverance has a composition that would make it good at trapping and preserving signs of microbial life, if any was once present. The sample was cored from Bunsen Peak on March 12, 2024.
PIA26314:
Perseverance Cores 'Bunsen Peak'
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Perseverance's CacheCam captured this image of the rover's latest cored sample – taken from an intriguing rock called Bunsen Peak – on March 12, 2024.
PIA26313:
Perseverance's 'Bunsen Peak' Sample
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This mosaic shows a rock called Bunsen Peak where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover extracted its 21st rock core and abraded a circular patch to investigate the rock's composition.
PIA26312:
Perseverance's View of 'Bunsen Peak'
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This map shows the locations of NASA's Perseverance rover (white star) and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (cyan star) on Dec. 19, 2023.
PIA26311:
Rover, Helicopter Locations in Jezero Crater
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This animation shows a simulation of the response of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to the Sys-ID process. Sys-ID is a method for understanding the behavior of a system by studying how specific inputs impact the motion of the vehicle.
PIA26240:
Animation of Mars Helicopter Flight Test
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this selfie using its left black-and-white navigation camera on Feb. 3, 2024. The selfie is made up of 36 individual images that were stitched together after being sent back to Earth.
PIA26310:
Curiosity Takes a Navcam Selfie
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama using its left black-and-white navigation camera on Feb. 1, 2024. The panorama is made up of 10 images that were stitched together after being sent back to Earth.
PIA26247:
Curiosity Looks Back Down the Slope
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After arriving at Gediz Vallis channel, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama using one of its black-and-white navigation cameras on Feb. 3, 2024.
PIA26246:
Curiosity Arrives at Gediz Vallis Channel
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The steep path NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took to reach Gediz Vallis channel is indicated in yellow in this visualization made with orbital data.
PIA26241:
Curiosity's Route to Gediz Vallis Channel (Rendering)
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This image acquired on February 16, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows secondary impact craters around 20 kilometers from the primary impact.
PIA26324:
Searching for Distant Secondary Craters
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This image acquired on January 17, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows many craters in the mid-latitudes of Mars are partially filled with deposits that have been interpreted to be ice-rich.
PIA26323:
A Song of Ice and Tectonics
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This image acquired on January 15, 2024 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows multiple dark spots corresponding to numerous new craters.
PIA26322:
Mars Atmosphere Fights Back!
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This image acquired on January 30, 2012 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a 13-meter (43 feet) diameter crater in Arcadia Planitia where ice was exposed both in the crater interior and ejecta.
PIA26321:
Mars Mysteries: Unveiling the Icy Craters
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the silhouette of Deimos, one of the two Martian moons, as it passed in front of the Sun on Jan. 19, 2024.
PIA26249:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Deimos
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to capture the silhouette of Phobos, one of the two Martian moons, as it passed in front of the Sun on Feb. 8, 2024.
PIA26248:
Perseverance Views a Transit of Phobos
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover appears as a dark speck in this image captured from directly overhead by the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO.
PIA26245:
HiRISE Spots Curiosity Driving Toward Upper Gediz Vallis
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this video showing the shadows of its rotor blades turning on Feb. 11, 2024. Engineers planned the video to get more information about damage that was sustained during the helicopter's 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024
PIA26244:
Ingenuity's Navcam Reveals a Missing Rotor Blade
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The Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI) camera aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took these images of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and one of its rotor blades on Feb. 24, 2024.
PIA26238:
SuperCam's RMI Spots Ingenuity's Broken Rotor
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This natural-color mosaic showing NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at Valinor Hills was acquired by the agency's Perseverance Mars rover on Feb. 21, 2024. The helicopter sits just left of center, a speck-like figure amid a field of sand ripples.
PIA26237:
Ingenuity at 'Valinor Hills'
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this mosaic showing the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at its final airfield on Feb. 4, 2024. The helicopter damaged its rotor blades during landing on its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024.
PIA26236:
Perseverance Spots Ingenuity at Its Final Airfield
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This image acquired on October 21, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a relatively large (280-meter diameter) circular structure that is most likely a relaxed impact crater.
PIA23700:
An Impact Structure in Brain Terrain
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This image acquired on September 26, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows terrain north of Elysium Planitia and Athabasca Valles.
PIA23427:
Dark Craters
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This image acquired on September 23, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a crater located in Acidalia Planitia. It is in an area of elongated mounds and hosts a variety of gully forms on its interior slopes.
PIA23145:
Gullies in Acidalia Planitia
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This image acquired on August 27, 2023 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows ridges in Aeolis Planum which tell a story of ancient rivers and a Mars very different to that of today.
PIA22822:
Flowing Rivers on Ancient Mars
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NASA's After its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this color image showing the shadow of one of its rotor blades, which was damaged during touchdown.
PIA26243:
Ingenuity Spots the Shadow of Its Damaged Rotor Blade
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this view of sand ripples during its 70th flight, on Dec. 22, 2023. The smooth terrain proved difficult for the helicopter's navigation system to track, resulting in a rough landing.
PIA26242:
Ingenuity's View of Sand Ripples During Flight 70
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NASA's Curiosity rover used its front and rear black-and-white Hazcams to capture 12 hours of a Martian day. The rover's shadow is visible on the surface in these images taken by the front Hazcam.
PIA26209:
Curiosity's Hazcams Capture a Day on Mars
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the floor of Lyot Crater, including a large field of sand dunes on the crater floor.
PIA26270:
Lyot Crater Dunes
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