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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.
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Perseverance's Selfie With 'Cheyava Falls'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-03-29 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Navcam (MSL)
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-05-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this close-up view of a rock nicknamed Terra Firme that looks like the open pages of a book, on April 15, 2023, using the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the end of its robotic arm.
PIA25828:
Curiosity Finds a Book-Like Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-14 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 a selfie with nine of the 10 sample tubes it deposited at a sample depot created within an area of Jezero Crater nicknamed Three Forks.
PIA25735:
Annotated Version of Perseverance Selfie With Sample Tubes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-24 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC)
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NASA's Perseverance took a selfie looking down at one of 10 tubes the rover deposited at the sample depot it created in an area within Jezero Crater nicknamed Three Forks. This image was taken on Jan. 22, 2023.
PIA25681:
Perseverance's Three Forks Sample Depot Selfie
Full Resolution:     TIFF (272.3 MB)     JPEG (11.27 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-23 Mars InSight
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NASA's InSight lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022. The lander is covered with far more dust than it was in its first selfie, taken in December 2018, or in its second selfie, taken in March and April of 2019.
PIA25287:
InSight's Final Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-17 Mars InSight
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InSight's solar panels produced roughly 5,000 watt-hours each Martian day, or sol, after the spacecraft touched down in November 2018. But by spring 2022, they were only producing about 500 watt-hours each sol.
PIA25284:
InSight's Power Generation: After Landing and Spring 2022
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-11-29 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree selfie using the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, at the end of its robotic arm. The selfie comprises 81 individual images taken on Nov. 20, 2021.
PIA24938:
Two Versions of a Curiosity Selfie: Narrow and Wide
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-20 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 over a rock nicknamed Rochette, on September 10, 2021. Two holes can be seen where the rover used its robotic arm to drill rock core samples.
PIA24836:
Perseverance's Selfie at Rochette
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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 2021-04-07 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 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.
PIA24542:
Perseverance's Selfie with Ingenuity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-30 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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The panorama is made up of 60 images from the MAHLI camera on the rover's robotic arm along with 11 images from the Mastcam on the mast of the rover.
PIA24543:
Curiosity's Selfie at Mont Mercou
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-11-12 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed Mary Anning after a 19th century English paleontologist. Curiosity snagged three samples of drilled rock at this site on its way out of the Glen Torridon region.
PIA24173:
Curiosity's Selfie at the Mary Anning location on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-03-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Navcam (MSL)
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This video, taken by one of the Navigation Cameras, on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, shows the rover's robotic arm as it rotates to take a selfie.
PIA23625:
Navcam Movie of How Curiosity Takes a Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-03-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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This selfie was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Feb. 26, 2020. The crumbling rock layer at the top of the image is the Greenheugh Pediment, which Curiosity climbed soon after taking the image.
PIA23624:
Curiosity at the Hutton Drill Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-10-24 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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NASA's Curiosity rover took this selfie on Oct. 11, 2019, the 2,553rd Martian day, or sol, of its mission. The rover drilled twice in this location, which is nicknamed Glen Etive.
PIA23378:
Curiosity at Glen Etive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-23 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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On Sept. 23, 2019, the U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, presented a framed letter to the mayor of the Balkan municipality of Jezero.
PIA23463:
NASA Mars Mission Connects with Bosnian and Herzegovinian Town
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-05-29 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie on May 12, 2019 (the 2,405th Martian day, or sol, of the mission). To the lower-left of the rover are its two recent drill holes, at targets called Aberlady and Kilmarie.
PIA23240:
Curiosity's Selfie at Aberlady and Kilmarie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-05-06 Mars InSight
Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC)
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This is NASA InSight's second full selfie on Mars. Since taking its first selfie, a thin coating of dust now covers the spacecraft.
PIA23203:
InSight's Dusty Selfie
Full Resolution:     TIFF (97.08 MB)     JPEG (2.375 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2019-01-28 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This image shows a selfie taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Sol 2291 (January 15) at the 'Rock Hall' drill site, located on Vera Rubin Ridge.
PIA22960:
Curiosity's Selfie at Rock Hall
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-12-11 Mars InSight
Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC)
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This is NASA InSight's first selfie on Mars. It displays the lander's solar panels and deck. On top of the deck are its science instruments, weather sensor booms and UHF antenna.
PIA22876:
InSight's First Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-06-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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A self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity rover taken on Sol 2082 (June 15, 2018). A Martian dust storm has reduced sunlight and visibility at the rover's location in Gale Crater.
PIA22486:
Curiosity's Dusty Selfie
Full Resolution:     TIFF (400.4 MB)     JPEG (13.25 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-26 Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Planning software used to write commands for NASA's Opportunity Mars rover shows the motion of the robotic arm, and an inset view of the Microscopic Imager.
PIA22311:
Simulation of Opportunity's Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-26 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Microscopic Imager
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This self-portrait of NASA's Opportunity Mars rover shows the vehicle at a site called 'Perseverance Valley' on the slopes of Endeavour Crater. It was taken with the rover's Microscopic Imager to celebrate the 5000th Martian Day, or sol.
PIA22222:
Opportunity's First Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-01-31 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars, taken on Jan 23, 2018, rover shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge, which it's been investigating for the past several months.
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Mount Sharp 'Photobombs' Curiosity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-05-18 Pluto New Horizons
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In April 2016, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft observed 1994 JR1, a 90-mile (145-kilometer) wide Kuiper Belt object (KBO) orbiting more than 3 billion miles (5 billion kilometers) from the sun.
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New Horizons Collects First Science on a Post-Pluto Object Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-08-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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This view of a test rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, results from advance testing of arm positions and camera pointings for taking a low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
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Test Rover at JPL During Preparation for Mars Rover's Low-Angle Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-08-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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This low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target called 'Buckskin' on lower Mount Sharp.
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Looking Up at Mars Rover Curiosity in 'Buckskin' Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-08-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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This low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle above the 'Buckskin' rock target, where the mission collected its seventh drilled sample. The site is in the 'Marias Pass' area of lower Mount Sharp.
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Curiosity Low-Angle Self-Portrait at 'Buckskin' Drilling Site on Mount Sharp
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-08-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
MAHLI
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This version of a self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover at a drilling site called 'Buckskin' on lower Mount Sharp is presented as a stereographic projection, which shows the horizon as a circle.
PIA19806:
Round-Horizon Version of Curiosity's Low-Angle Selfie at 'Buckskin'
Full Resolution:     TIFF (76.24 MB)     JPEG (2.506 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-12 Comet Rosetta
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The Philae lander of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission took this self-portrait of the spacecraft on Sept. 7, 2014, at a distance of about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Rosetta Mission Selfie at 10 Miles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-11 Comet Rosetta
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The Philae lander of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission took this self-portrait of the spacecraft on Sept. 7, 2014, at a distance of about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
PIA18872:
Rosetta Mission Selfie at 30 Miles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-10-14 Comet Rosetta
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A composite image from a camera on ESA's Rosetta mission's Philae comet lander shows a solar array, with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the background.
PIA18826:
Rosetta Selflessly Offers Beautiful Comet Selfie
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