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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-27 Sol (our sun) Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passes in front of the Sun's face in this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. A movie is available at the Photojournal.
PIA13737:
Phobos Passes in Front of Sun's Face, Nov. 9, 2010 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-27 Sol (our sun) Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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The sun descends to the Martian horizon and sets in this image from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. A movie is available at the Photojournal.
PIA13736:
Sunset Watched by Opportunity, November 2010 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-03 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
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This image shows NASA's Opportunity's climb out of Victoria crater. It is the first frame of a movie that spans three days when the rover exited the crater at the alcove called 'Duck Bay' leaving two sets of wheel tracks.
PIA13088:
Opportunity's Wheel Tracks at Victoria Crater Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image maps out the travels of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, from is landing site at Eagle Crater to the rim of Victoria Crater about six miles (9.7 kilometers) away in September of 2006.
PIA09689:
Opportunity's Long Road to Victoria (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-28 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This frame from an animation shows a simulated rover descending into Victoria Crater via the rock-paved slopes of an alcove informally named 'Duck Bay.'
PIA09688:
Rolling into Victoria Crater (Simulation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-28 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Panoramic Camera
High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)
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This frame from an animation shows a hypothetical flyover above Victoria Crater, where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is perched on a rim.
PIA09687:
Surveying the Scene Above Opportunity (Simulation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
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This image shows two side-by-side streaks of wispy, white clouds against a dark gray sky moving from the middle of the frame toward the left. To their right are several fainter, laterally extending rays of wispy clouds moving in the same direction.
PIA09170:
Martian Clouds Pass By on a Winter Afternoon Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-05 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
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Three-Frame 'Movie' of Opportunity Rover at 'Victoria Crater'
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Three-Frame 'Movie' of Opportunity Rover at 'Victoria Crater'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This image illustrates the recent escape of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity from dangerous, loose material on the vast plains leading to the rover's next long-term target, 'Victoria Crater' during the rover's drive May-June, 2006.
PIA08532:
Opportunity Rolls Free Again (Four Wheels) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This image illustrates the recent escape of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity from dangerous, loose material on the vast plains leading to the rover's next long-term target, 'Victoria Crater' during the rover's drive May-June, 2006.
PIA08531:
Opportunity Rolls Free Again (Left Front Wheel) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This image illustrates the recent escape of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity from dangerous, loose material on the vast plains leading to the rover's next long-term target, 'Victoria Crater' during the rover's drive May-June, 2006.
PIA08530:
Opportunity Rolls Free Again (Right Front Wheel) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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The left rear wheel of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity made slow but steady progress through soft dune material in this image taken by the rover's front hazard identification camera over a period of several days.
PIA07986:
Slow Progress in Dune (Left Rear Wheel) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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The right rear wheel of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity made slow but steady progress through soft dune material in this image taken by the rover's front hazard identification camera over a period of several days.
PIA07985:
Slow Progress in Dune (Right Rear Wheel) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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The right front wheel of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity made slow but steady progress through soft dune material in this image taken by the rover's front hazard identification camera over a period of several days.
PIA07984:
Slow Progress in Dune (Right Front Wheel) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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The left front wheel of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity made slow but steady progress through soft dune material in this image taken by the rover's front hazard identification camera over a period of several days.
PIA07983:
Slow Progress in Dune (Left Front Wheel) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-18 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows winter clouds drifting across the skies at 'Endurance Crater' in Mars' Meridiani Planum.
PIA06776:
Cloudy Skies on Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-15 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This frame from an animation shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's 'dance' into 'Endurance Crater.' The rover drove forward, back, then forward again, bringing it five meters (16.4 feet) into the crater.
PIA06268:
Do the Hokey Pokey Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-26 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity watches a sunset on a martian afternoon. Rapid dimming of the Sun near the horizon is due to the dust in the sky. Dust in the martian atmosphere scatters blue light forward creating a'halo' of blueish sky color.
PIA05343:
The Sun Sets on Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's arm exploring the trench the rover dug with one of its wheels. The arm holds a suite of scientific instruments designed to examine rocks and soil for signs of past water on Mars.
PIA05323:
Grooving in Trenchtown Animation Icon
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Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer
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This screenshot from a computer-generated animation shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's arm exploring the trench dug by one of its wheels. The rover's arm is designed to examine rocks and soil for signs of past water on Mars.
PIA05322:
Grooving in Trenchtown (computer animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-18 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's digging a hole in the ground at Meridiani Planum, Mars. The rover scraped its front right wheel back and forth across the surface six times by rotating its whole body in place.
PIA05308:
Dragging Its Foot Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-17 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image is a screenshot from a computer-generated animation showing NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity trenching a hole in the sandy soil at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
PIA05309:
Opportunity Digs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity as it drove north away from the lander and towards the eastern edge of the rock outcropping near its landing site at Meridiani Planum, Mars in 2004.
PIA05215:
Forging Ahead Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity as it drove north away from the lander and towards the eastern edge of the rock outcropping near its landing site at Meridiani Planum, Mars in 2004.
PIA05214:
Rear View of Opportunity's Drive Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity as it drove north towards the eastern edge of the rock outcropping near its landing site at Meridiani Planum, Mars in 2004.
PIA05211:
Forging Ahead (linearized) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
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This image taken at Meridiani Planum, shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's lander before and after it successfully tilted itself forward by hyperextending its rear lander petal downward.
PIA05169:
Opportunity Lowers for Egress (animation) Animation Icon
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