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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image shows the journey of NASA's Perseverance rover across the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater in the approximately seven months since landing on February 18, 2021.
PIA24750:
Perseverance's Journey to First Successful Sample Collection
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image shows a core collected from a basaltic rock during a test of the Perseverance rover's Sampling and Caching System at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA24809:
Cored-Rock Sample From Perseverance Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This sealed titanium sample tube contains Perseverance's first cored sample of Mars rock. The rover's Sampling and Caching System Camera (known as CacheCam) captured this image.
PIA24807:
Sealing in Perseverance's First Sample
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance's first cored-rock sample of Mars rock is seen inside its titanium container tube in this image taken by the rover's Sampling and Caching System Camera (known as CacheCam).
PIA24806:
Perseverance's First Cored Mars Rock in Sample Tube
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-02 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The drill hole from Perseverance's second sample-collection attempt can be seen, in this composite of two images taken on Sept. 1, 2021, by one of the Perseverance rover's navigation cameras.
PIA24805:
Perseverance's Navigation Camera Captures Sample Borehole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-02 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This Sept. 1, 2021 image from NASA's Perseverance rover shows a sample tube with its cored-rock contents inside.
PIA24804:
Sample Tube in Perseverance's Drill With Rock Core
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-02 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Taken Sept. 1, 2021 by Mastcam-Z after Perseverance's sample-coring activities, this image shows the rover's drill with no cored rock sample evident in the sample tube.
PIA24803:
Perseverance's Drill After Cleaning Operation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-26 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will abrade the rock at the center of this image, allowing scientists and engineers to assess whether it would hold up to the rover's more powerful sampling drill.
PIA24767:
Perseverance Team Selects a New Rock to Abrade
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This annotated image depicts the ground track of NASA's Perseverance rover since it arrived on Mars on February 18, 2021.
PIA24800:
Perseverance's Drive to Citadelle
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-16 Mars Mars Helicopter
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Håvard Grip, chief pilot of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, documents the details of each flight in the mission's logbook, The Nominal Pilot's Logbook for Planets and Moons, after each flight.
PIA24794:
Ingenuity Logbook Entries
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This composite image, made by the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on August 8, 2021, shows the hole in a Martian rock where the rover attempted to collect its first sample.
PIA24749:
Laser Shots at Roubion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This composite image of Perseverance's first borehole on Mars was generated using multiple images taken by the rover's WATSON imager.
PIA24796:
WATSON Image of Perseverance's First Borehole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on August 6, 2021, shows that sample collection tube No. 233 is empty. It is one of the pieces of data showing that the rover did not collect any Martian rock during its first attempt to core a sample.
PIA24742:
Perseverance Sample Tube No. 233
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This enhanced-color image from the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover shows sample tube inside the coring bit after the August 6, 2021, coring activity was completed.
PIA24799:
Sample Tube in Perseverance's Coring Drill
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The drill hole from Perseverance's first sample-collection attempt can be seen, along with the shadow of the rover, in this image taken by one of the rover's navigation cameras.
PIA24798:
Perseverance's Navigation Camera Image of First Borehole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image taken by one of the hazard cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on August 6, 2021, shows the hole drilled in what the rover's science team calls a paver rock in preparation for the mission's first attempt to collect a sample from Mars.
PIA24795:
Perseverance's Drill Hole for First Sample Collection Attempt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Ganymede Juno
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This annotated map of Ganymede depicts the areas of the Jovian moon's surface that were imaged by the Juno spacecraft's JIRAM instrument during two recent close approaches of the moon.
PIA24792:
Ganymede Coverage by the JIRAM Instrument Aboard Juno
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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A test model of the boom that will be used for the magnetometer aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is readied in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA24786:
Europa Clipper Magnetometer (ECM) Boom
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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The dish antenna, seen here face down, for NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is being fabricated at aerospace vendor Applied Aerospace Structures Corporation (AASC) in Stockton, California.
PIA24785:
Europa Clipper: High-Gain Antenna Under Construction
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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Seen here in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California is the nadir deck for NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
PIA24784:
Final Stretch for Europa Clipper's Nadir Deck
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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Engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, inspect the propulsion module of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
PIA24783:
Europa Clipper: Propulsion Module Inspection
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians in a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, integrate the tanks that will contain helium onto the propulsion module of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
PIA24782:
Europa Clipper Propulsion Module: Integration Underway
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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The Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE), is shown here in the midst of assembly in a clean room at JPL.
PIA24781:
The Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) Science Instrument
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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Engineers in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California build the nadir deck for NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
PIA24480:
Building a Nadir Deck for Europa Clipper
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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Engineers and technicians in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California stand between the thick-walled aluminum vault and its duplicate that they helped build for the agency's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
PIA24479:
Complete: Europa Clipper Vault and Its Twin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-05 Europa Clipper
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Contamination control engineers in a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, evaluate a propellant tank before it is installed in NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
PIA24478:
Prepping Europa Clipper's Propulsion Tanks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-02 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to create this panorama of its first drill site. Scientists will be looking for a rock to drill somewhere in this location.
PIA24765:
Perseverance's Office on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This wide view of Mars' Jezero Crater was taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on July 15, 2021.
PIA24745:
An Expanse for Perseverance to Explore
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image shows the area on Mars from which NASA's Perseverance rover will collect its first rock sample.
PIA24746:
Perseverance Scouts First Sampling Location
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This series of images shows NASA's Perseverance rover inspecting and sealing a witness sample tube on June 21, 2021, as it prepares to collect its first sample of Martian rock and sediment.
PIA24751:
Witness Tube in Perseverance Sample Caching System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover took these zoomed-in images of a layered outcrop nicknamed Artuby on June 17, 2021, from a little more than a third of a mile (615 meters) away.
PIA24747:
SuperCam Image of Artuby
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image of a Martian vista in Jezero Crater, made from smaller individual images, was taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on July 3, 2021.
PIA24744:
The End of One Drive by Perseverance on the Floor of Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This video from July 1, 2021, shows scenes from the longest autonomous drive yet for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which landed on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA24743:
Perseverance Rover Camera View of Long Autonomous Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looks back toward its tracks on July 1, 2021, after driving autonomously 358 feet (109 meters), its longest autonomous drive to date.
PIA24741:
Perseverance Looks Back After a Long Autonomous Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-20 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This data shows chemicals detected within a single rock on Mars by PIXL, one of the instruments on the end of the robotic arm aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24762:
PIXL's First Chemical Maps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-20 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance rover reached out to examine rocks in an area on Mars nicknamed the Cratered Floor Fractured Rough area in this image captured on July 10, 2021.
PIA24748:
Perseverance's Arm Over Paver Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-20 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this close-up of a rock target nicknamed Foux, using its WATSON camera on the end of the rover's robotic arm. The image was taken July 11, 2021.
PIA24728:
WATSON Views Foux
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-12 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this image of tracks made by the Perseverance rover during its ninth flight, on July 5. A portion of the helicopter's landing gear can be seen at top left.
PIA24730:
Ingenuity Spots Rover Tracks During Ninth Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-12 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter spotted this location, nicknamed Raised Ridges, during its ninth flight, on July 5. Scientists hope to visit Raised Ridges with the Perseverance rover in the future.
PIA24727:
Ingenuity Spots Raised Ridges During Ninth Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-12 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew over these sand dunes and rocks during its ninth flight, on July 5, 2021.
PIA24726:
Ingenuity Spots Rocks During Ninth Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-12 Mars Mars Helicopter
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew over this dune field in a region of Jezero Crater nicknamed Séítah during its ninth flight, on July 5, 2021. A portion of the helicopter's landing gear can be seen at top left.
PIA24725:
Ingenuity Spots Dune Fields During Ninth Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-01 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Vandi Verma, an engineer who now works with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, is seen here working as a driver for the Curiosity rover. The special 3D glasses she's wearing are still used by rover drivers to easily detect changes in terrain.
PIA24724:
3D Glasses Used for Rover Driving
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-01 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This computer simulation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as it carried out its first drive using its auto-navigation feature, which allows it to avoid rocks and other hazards without input from engineers back on Earth.
PIA24723:
Computer Simulation of Perseverance's First Autonav Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-01 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance relies on left and right navigation cameras. The view seen here combines the perspective of two cameras rover during the rover's first drive using AutoNav, it's auto-navigation function.
PIA24722:
Perseverance's First Autonav Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen here in 3D using images taken June 6, 2021, by the left and right Mastcam-Z cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24670:
Ingenuity Helicopter in 3D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This computer simulation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover taking its first selfie, on April 6, 2021. The point of view of the rover's WATSON camera is included to show how each of the images were taken before being stitched together into the selfie.
PIA24669:
Computer Simulation of Rover Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This annotated image of Mars' Jezero Crater depicts the location of NASA's Perseverance rover (yellow dot) and the field of view of its Remote Microscopic Imager (RMI) camera when it took a series of images of the Delta Scarp on March 17, 2021.
PIA24685:
Perseverance to Delta Scarp
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This composite image of Jezero Crater's Delta Scarp was generated using data from the Perseverance rover's Remote Microscopic Imager and Mastcam-Z camera.
PIA24684:
Two Views of Delta Scarp
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance scientist Vivian Sun was excited to see certain geologic features in imagery of Jezero Crater's Delta Scarp because they provide evidence of a watery past.
PIA24683:
Mars' Delta Scarp From More Than a Mile Away
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen here at the end of its fourth flight, on April 30, 2021. This enhanced video shows the dust kicked up by the helicopter's spinning rotors.
PIA24666:
Ingenuity Kicks Up Dust Cloud on Fourth Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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JPL's Abigail Allwood (second from left), principal investigator of the PIXL instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, conducts fieldwork with other scientists in Greenland.
PIA24668:
Abigail Allwood Doing Fieldwork in Greenland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-14 Mars 2020 Rover
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JPL's Abigail Allwood, principal investigator of the PIXL instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, examines rocks in Greenland.
PIA24667:
Abigail Allwood in Greenland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is viewed here through the Remote Microscopic Imager camera, part of the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover. This image was taken on May 14, 2021.
PIA24665:
Perseverance's SuperCam Views the Ingenuity Helicopter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-09 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z imaging system captured this 360-degree panorama at Van Zyl Overlook, where the rover parked during Ingenuity helicopter's first flights.
PIA24663:
Mastcam-Z's 360-degree View of Van Zyl Overlook
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-08 Ganymede Juno
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This image of the dark side of Ganymede was obtained by Juno's Stellar Reference Unit navigation camera during its June 7, 2021, flyby of the moon.
PIA24682:
Close-up of Dark Side of Jupiter Moon Ganymede
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-08 Ganymede Juno
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This image of Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager during Juno's June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon.
PIA24681:
Juno's Ganymede Close-up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-27 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image of Ingenuity was taken on May 23, 2021, the day after its sixth flight, by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24599:
Ingenuity at Third Airfield
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-25 Europa 700x665x3
This illustration depicts scientists' findings about what the interior of Jupiter's moon Europa may look like.
PIA24477:
Europa: Potential Volcanoes on the Seafloor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-14 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Close up image of Perseverance rover's deck shows a black plate with the three chips and a line drawing showing Mars and Earth with the Sun in the middle.
PIA24615:
Closeup of Send Your Name to Mars Chips on Perseverance Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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After the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance rover captured Ingenuity's third flight on April 25, the frames of the video that was stitched together were then reprojected to optimize viewing in an anaglyph.
PIA24522:
Ingenuity Flies in 3D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used the WATSON camera on the end of its robotic arm to conduct a focus test on May 9, 2021, the 78th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA24641:
WATSON Takes a Closer Look
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
 Mastcam-Z
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NASA's Perseverance rover viewed these rocks with its Mastcam-Z imager on April 27, 2021.
PIA24627:
Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Images Intriguing Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of Santa Cruz, a hill within Jezero Crater, on April 29, 2021.
PIA24546:
Mastcam-Z Views Santa Cruz on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-30 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (above center to the right) is viewed by one of the hazard cameras aboard the Perseverance rover during the helicopter's fourth flight on April 30, 2021.
PIA24642:
Perseverance's Hazard Cameras View Ingenuity's Fourth Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-23 Mars Mars Helicopter
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This image of the official pilot's logbook for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flights was taken at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on April 19, 2021, the day of Ingenuity's first historic flight.
PIA24440:
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Pilot's Logbook
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-23 Mars Mars Helicopter
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Ingenuity Mars chief pilot Håvard Grip records data of the first flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter into the official pilot's logbook for the project.
PIA24591:
Pilot Logs First Flight on Another World
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovers over Jezero Crater during its second experimental flight test on April 22, 2021. The imagery was captured by the Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z imager.
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Video of Second Flight
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Members of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter team at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory react to data showing that the helicopter completed its second flight on the Red Planet on April 22, 2021.
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Ingenuity's Team Reacts to Data Showing Helicopter Completed Its Second Flight
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The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's navigation camera captures the helicopter's shadow on the surface of Jezero Crater during rotorcraft's second experimental test flight on April 22, 2021.
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In-Flight Image From Ingenuity's Second Flight
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter takes off and lands in this video captured on April 19, 2021, by Mastcam-Z, an imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. This video features only the moments of takeoff and the landing.
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Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity Taking Off and Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-21 Moon Apollo
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Buzz Aldrin took this iconic image of a bootprint on the Moon during the Apollo 11 moonwalk on July 20, 1969.
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Apollo Footprint
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The Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shot video of Ingenuity helicopter's flight, presented here in side-by-side processed versions that have both been enhanced to show a dust plume swirling during takeoff and again on landing.
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Enhanced Video Shows Dust During Ingenuity's Flight
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In this footage captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard the Perseverance Mars rover on April 19, 2021, the Ingenuity helicopter lifts of from Mars' surface, hovers for 30 seconds, then touches back down.
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity's First Full Flight
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A simulation made from data from the first flight of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, showing the flight from different angles. The flight occurred on April 19, 2021.
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Video Animation Made From Ingenuity's First Flight Data
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An altimeter chart shows data from the first flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which occurred on April 19, 2021.
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Altimeter Chart for Ingenuity's First Flight
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovers over the Martian surface as viewed by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard the Perseverance Mars rover on April 19, 2021. The helicopter climbed to an altitude of 10 feet (3 meters), hovering for 30 seconds.
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity Hovering
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter achieves powered, controlled flight for the first time on another planet, hovering for several seconds before touching back down on April 19, 2021.
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Perseverance's Navcam View of Ingenuity's First Flight
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This image was taken after the first flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, and the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. It was captured by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, on April 19, 2021.
PIA24550:
Ingenuity's First Flight Recorded by Mastcam-Z
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Members of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory react to data showing that the helicopter completed its first flight on April 19, 2021.
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Ingenuity's Team Reacts to Data Showing It Completed Its First Flight
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Members of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare to receive the data downlink showing whether the helicopter completed its first flight on April 19, 2021.
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Ingenuity's Team Waits for Data on Helicopter's First Flight
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this shot, capturing its own shadow, while hovering over the Martian surface on April 19, 2021, during the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet.
PIA24584:
Ingenuity's First Black-and-White Image From the Air
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This image from NASA's Perseverance rover shows the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter right after it successfully completed a high-speed spin-up test. It was captured by the Mastcam-Z instrument on Perseverance on April 16, 2021.
PIA24498:
Ingenuity Right After a Spin
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The Ingenuity helicopter's carbon fiber blades can be seen spinning up to in this video taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on April 8, 2021, the 48th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA24549:
Mastcam-Z Captures Ingenuity's Blades Spinning
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This animation shows each step of the Ingenuity helicopter deploying from the belly of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover from March 26 to April 3, 2021. The final image shows the helicopter on the ground after the rover drove about 13 feet (4 meters) away.
PIA24548:
Ingenuity's Complete Deployment
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The Ingenuity helicopter's solar panel charges six lithium-ion batteries inside the helicopter. The small amount of dust on the panel has no adverse effects on the helicopter's power.
PIA24545:
Mars Helicopter's Solar Array as Seen by Perseverance's Mastcam-Z
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter does a slow spin test of its blades, on April 8, 2021. This image was captured by the Navigation Cameras on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
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Ingenuity Tests its Blades
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter unlocked its blades, allowing them to spin freely, on April 7, 2021. This image was captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on the following sol, April 8, 2021.
PIA24581:
Ingenuity's Blades Are Released
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover. This image was taken by the WATSON camera on the rover's robotic arm on April 6, 2021.
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Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity
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WATSON produced this fluorescence map of a borehole in Greenland's ice. The left panel shows nebulous blobs of biosignatures, and the right panel shows a colorized version, grouping together similar organic chemicals.
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Fluorescence Map of a Greenland Borehole
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The tether attached to the top of WATSON and the drill also acts as the power cable and data feed. Care must be taken to ensure a tight connection between the tether and instrument, else the instrument could be lost in the ice.
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Preparing WATSON for Borehole Descent
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During 2019 field tests near Greenland's Summit Station,the WATSON instrument is put through its paces to seek out signs of life, or biosignatures, 360 feet (110 meters) down a borehole.
PIA24169:
WATSON's Field Test in Greenland
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter is seen here in a close-up taken by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard the Perseverance rover. This image was taken on April 5, the 45th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Mastcam-Z Gives Ingenuity a Close-up
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On March 21, 2021, the large asteroid 2001 FO32 made a close approach with our planet, passing at a distance of about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) — or 5 1/4 times the distance from Earth to the Moon.
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Goldstone Radar Observations of Asteroid 2001 FO32
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The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this image with its color camera from beneath the Perseverance rover after the rover had deployed the rotorcraft to the surface of Mars. Image was taken on April 3, 2021.
PIA24437:
Ingenuity's First Color Snap
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter can be seen on Mars as viewed by the Perseverance rover's rear Hazard Camera on April 4, 2021, the 44th Martian day, or sol of the mission.
PIA24541:
Ingenuity Deployed on Mars
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter can be seen here with all four of its legs deployed before dropping from the belly of the Perseverance rover on March 30, 2021, the 39th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA24449:
Ingenuity Helicopter is Ready to Drop
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In this photo, the Plasma Instrument Calibration Chamber at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, recreates the plasma environments that PIMS and other instruments will encounter in space.
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Preparing NASA's Europa Clipper's Plasma Instrument
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Included in the payload of science instruments for NASA's Europa Clipper is the Europa Imaging System (EIS) Wide Angle Camera (WAC).
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Europa Imaging System Wide Angle Camera
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Included in the payload of science instruments for NASA's Europa Clipper is the Europa Imaging System (EIS) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC).
PIA24328:
Europa Imaging System Narrow Angle Camera
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Pictured in a clean room at APL are NASA's Europa Clipper's recently assembled Faraday cup sensors and instrument housings in two configurations.
PIA24327:
Faraday Cups Up Close: NASA's Europa Clipper
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