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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-06-04 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Opportunity rover captured an image of this rock nicknamed, Jornada del Muerto, while in Perseverance Valley.
PIA23245:
Opportunity Discovers Dead Man's Journey
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-02-26 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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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 2016-12-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image of a target called 'Private Joseph Field' combines four images from the microscopic imager on the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, with enhanced color information added from the rover's panoramic camera.
PIA21142:
Opportunity View of 'Private Joseph Field' on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-12-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic combines four frames taken by the microscopic imager on NASA's Opportunity's robotic arm on Oct. 2, 2016 showing relatively bright outcropping of rock, dubbed 'Gasconade' on the western edge of Mars' Endeavour Crater.
PIA21141:
Opportunity Inspects 'Gasconade' on 'Spirit Mound' of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-27 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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These small spherules on the Martian surface are near Fram Crater, visited by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity during April 2004. The area shown is 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) across.
PIA19113:
Martian Concretions Near Fram Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-18 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This close-up view of a target rock called 'Last Chance' was acquired by NASA's Mars rover Opportunity on March 3, 2004 of Opportunity's work on Mars. The embedded spherules evident in this image were nicknamed 'blueberries.'
PIA18885:
Clues to Wet History in Texture of a Martian Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-17 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic shot by the microscopic imager on the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a rock target called 'Esperance' after some of the rock's surface had been removed by Opportunity's rock abrasion tool.
PIA16929:
Close-Up of 'Esperance' After Abrasion by Opportunity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-09-14 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Small spherical objects fill the field in this mosaic combining four images from the Microscopic Imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity at an outcrop called 'Kirkwood' in the Cape York segment of the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
PIA16139:
Puzzling Little Martian Spheres That Don't Taste Like 'Blueberries'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-12-07 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This close-up view of a mineral vein called 'Homestake' comes from the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity; the vein is found to be rich in calcium and sulfur, possibly the calcium-sulfate mineral gypsum.
PIA15035:
Close-up View of 'Homestake' Vein
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-01 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its microscopic imager to record this close-up view of texture on part of a rock informally named 'Tisdale 2' on the western rim of Endeavour crater. The broken rock fragments are called clasts.
PIA14746:
Magnified View of Texture on Part of "Tisdale 2" Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-01 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Panoramic Camera
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This image taken by the NASA's Mars rover Opportunity shows locations of the microscopic imager's observations on a rock informally named 'Tisdale 2.'
PIA14745:
Locations of Microscopic Imager Observations on 'Tisdale 2'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image from the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows details of the coating on a rock called 'Chocolate Hills,' which the rover found and examined at the edge of a young crater called 'Concepción.'
PIA12970:
Coating on Rock Beside a Young Martian Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-21 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic image was taken with the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit to get a look underneath the rover.
PIA12182:
Spirit's View of Own Underbelly, Sol 1990
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-21 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This stereo view combines a pair of images taken two months apart by the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA12181:
Spirit's View of Own Underbelly, (Stereo from Two Sols)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-21 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This stereo view combines a pair of images taken by the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during the 1,925th Martian day (sol) of Spirit's mission on Mars (June 2, 2009). 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA12180:
Spirit's View of Own Underbelly, (Sol 1925 Stereo)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its microscopic imager to get this view of the surface of a rock called 'Block Island' during the 1,963rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Aug. 1, 2009).
PIA12191:
Magnified Look at a Meteorite on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-06-03 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This panorama of images from the Spirit rover, taken on Sol 1925 (June 2, 2009), is helping engineers assess the rover's current state and plan her extraction from the soft soil in the region now called 'Troy.'
PIA12102:
Spirit Photographs Her Underbelly, SOL 1925
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-05-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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On May 18, 2009, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its microscopic imager camera to take a picture of its underside. Though out-of-focus, shown are the rover wheels and underside of the rover.
PIA12012:
Opportunity Photographs Her Underbelly
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-13 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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'King George Island' Brushed
PIA09092:
'King George Island' Brushed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-13 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows spherules, nicknamed 'blueberries,' at its landing site in 'Eagle Crater,' determined to be iron-rich concretions that formed inside deposits soaked with groundwater.
PIA09077:
Big Spherules near 'Victoria'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a particularly bright-looking part of the rock Halley, on Mars. Chemical composition of the bright spots is suggestive of a calcium sulfate mineral.
PIA08566:
Spirit Examines Light-Toned 'Halley' (Microscopic Image)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-15 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Panoramic Camera
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On May 20, 2006, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity stopped for the weekend to place its instrument arm onto the soil target pictured here, dubbed 'Alamogordo Creek' highlighting differences among materials in rocks and soil.
PIA08543:
A Peek into 'Alamogordo Creek'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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As NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was traversing southward toward 'Victoria Crater' in May, 2006, it periodically stopping to characterize exposed bedrock, using the contact instrument suite on the robotic arm.
PIA08499:
Close-Up of 'Cheyenne'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-12 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image shows two shallow, circular holes - one above and one below - that meet in the middle to form an indentation shaped like a figure eight in the Martian soil. The holes are within a larger circular area created by the rock abrasion tool
PIA08455:
Looking for Changes in Soil over Time
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-17 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image mosaic from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows detailed structure of a small fin-like structure dubbed 'Roosevelt,' which sticks out from the outcrop pavement at the edge of 'Erebus Crater,' taken on Feb. 8, 2006.
PIA02186:
Revealing Roosevelt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-02 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its microscopic imager to capture this spectacular, jagged mini-landscape on a rock called 'GongGong.'
PIA02157:
Hardened Lava Meets Wind on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-15 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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These four images were taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on Nov. 3 and 4, 2005, before and after using the rock abrasion tool on sol 633 to grind into a rock target dubbed 'Kalavrita.'
PIA03202:
A Closer Look at 'Kalavrita'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Angular Grains of Sand Hint at Short Transport Distance
PIA06410:
Angular Grains of Sand Hint at Short Transport Distance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-01 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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On Aug. 3, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its microscopic imager to take this mosaic of the rock 'Haussmann.' The rounded nature of the pebbles indicates that they were eroded on the surface before being embedded into the rock.
PIA04196:
Focus on 'Rue Legendre'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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On Aug 9, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity after the rover had ground a hole in the rock called 'Ice Cream' and conducted various scientific experiments, it took this final microscopic image of the hole before driving away.
PIA04169:
Mars Climate Continues to Fascinate
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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On Aug 6, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this image showing rounded concretions dubbed 'blueberries.' A drill hole cut into a martian rock nicknamed 'Ice Cream' by the rover's rock abrasion tool is also shown.
PIA04168:
Mars Rocks Continue to Fascinate
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Texture of Rock at 'Jibsheet'
PIA07979:
Texture of Rock at 'Jibsheet'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Close-up of 'Keystone' on 'Methuselah' Outcrop
PIA07977:
Close-up of 'Keystone' on 'Methuselah' Outcrop
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-05-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Close-up of 'Davis' on 'Jibsheet' Outcrop
PIA07976:
Close-up of 'Davis' on 'Jibsheet' Outcrop
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-18 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This picture from the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is a mosaic of a target called 'Gagarin' on a rock referred to as 'Yuri.' A circle from which the tool's wire brush has scoured dust off the rock surface is evident.
PIA07480:
Looking Closely at 'Yuri'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Dust Accumulation on Mars
PIA07301:
Dust Accumulation on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-13 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Abraded Target on Rock
PIA07261:
Abraded Target on Rock "Champagne" in Gusev Crater
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Brushed Target on Rock
PIA07260:
Brushed Target on Rock "Champagne" in Gusev Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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A Rock Like None Before, Brushed
PIA07186:
A Rock Like None Before, Brushed
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Closeup View of Compacted Soil
PIA07082:
Closeup View of Compacted Soil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-04 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a close-up look at the surface of a rock called 'Wopmay,' inside 'Endurance Crater,' highlighting crevices and spherical concretions on Mars.
PIA07024:
Close-up of 'Wopmay'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-04 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took this close-up examination of a freshly exposed area of a rock called 'Uchben' in the 'Columbia Hills' of Mars to reveal an assortment of particle shapes and sizes. This image was taken on Oct. 22, 2004.
PIA07023:
Mix of Particles in "Uchben" Close-up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-04 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Close-up of 'Tetl' Layers
PIA07022:
Close-up of 'Tetl' Layers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-14 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Layered Outcrops in Gusev Crater
PIA06936:
Layered Outcrops in Gusev Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-24 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Moessbauer Spectrometer
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover microscopic imager onboard Spirit revealed a gap less than half an inch in the imprint left behind in the soil. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA06882:
Sampling Martian Soil (3-D)
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Sampling Martian Soil
PIA06881:
Sampling Martian Soil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Grinding into Soft, Powdery Rock
PIA06792:
Grinding into Soft, Powdery Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Sweeping the Dust Away
PIA06791:
Sweeping the Dust Away
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a target dubbed 'Bylot' on the slopes of 'Endurance Crater.' Opportunity dug a hole into the target with its rock abrasion tool.
PIA06789:
'Bylot' Up Close
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a target dubbed 'Tuktoyuktuk' on a rock called 'Inuvik' in 'Endurance Crater.' Opportunity dug a hole into the target with its rock abrasion tool.
PIA06788:
'Tuktoyuktuk' Up Close
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a target dubbed 'Campbell' on a rock called 'MacKenzie' in 'Endurance Crater.' Opportunity dug a hole into the target with its rock abrasion tool.
PIA06787:
'Campbell' Up Close
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This 3-D, microscopic imager mosaic of a target area on a rock called 'Diamond Jenness' was taken after NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity ground into the surface with its rock abrasion tool for a second time. 3D glasses are necessary.
PIA06786:
'Diamond' in 3-D
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a target dubbed 'Drammensfjorden' on a rock called 'Millstone' in 'Endurance Crater.' Opportunity dug a hole into the target with its rock abrasion tool.
PIA06785:
'Drammensfjorden' Up Close
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a target dubbed 'Grindstone' on a rock called 'Manitoba' in 'Endurance Crater.' Opportunity dug a hole into the target with its rock abrasion tool.
PIA06784:
Grinding 'Grindstone'
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This view from the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a type of light-colored, rough-textured spherules scientists call 'popcorn' in contrast to the darker, smoother spherules called 'blueberries.'
PIA06779:
'Blueberries' Inside 'Popcorn'
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity examined a type of rougher-textured, lighter-colored round pebbles related to the smoother, darker spherules nicknamed 'blueberries' inside 'Endurance Crater' on Mars.
PIA06778:
'Blueberries' and 'Popcorn'
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This mosaic, featuring the rock target dubbed 'Bylot,' was acquired by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on Aug. 9, 2004. Seen are spherules and dark sand partially covering rock.
PIA06762:
Browsing at 'Bylot'
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This mosaic was produced from pictures taken with the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on June 29, 2004. It shows one of a series of holes ground by the rover's rock abrasion tool in 'Endurance Crater' on Mars.
PIA06752:
A Hole in 'Kettlestone'
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This microscopic imager mosaic of the target area called 'Diamond Jenness' was taken after NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity ground into the surface with its rock abrasion tool for a second time.
PIA06750:
'Diamond Jenness': A Tough Grind
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rock dubbed 'Diamond Jenness.' It was taken on sol 177 (July 23, 2004) after the rover first ground into the rock with its rock abrasion tool, or 'Rat.'
PIA06749:
'Diamond Jenness': After the Grind
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This microscopic imager mosaic of the rock called 'Diamond Jenness' was snapped on sol 177, 2004, before NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity ground into the surface with its rock abrasion tool, or 'Rat.'
PIA06748:
'Diamond Jenness': Before the Grind
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This mosaic image taken on June 24, 2004 by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rock abrasion tool target 'London.'
PIA06383:
Looking into "London"
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'String of Pearls' Up-Close
PIA06382:
'String of Pearls' Up-Close
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-25 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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A 'Pot of Gold' Rich with Nuggets (Sol 163-2)
PIA06320:
A 'Pot of Gold' Rich with Nuggets (Sol 163-2)
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the finely-laminated target called 'Cobble Hill' at 'Endurance Crater.' The circle is where the rover's rock abrasion tool cut away the rock's surface to expose the interior.
PIA06319:
'Cobble Hill' Profile
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A 'Pot of Gold' Rich with Nuggets (Sol 163)
PIA06313:
A 'Pot of Gold' Rich with Nuggets (Sol 163)
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A 'Pot of Gold' Rich with Nuggets
PIA06312:
A 'Pot of Gold' Rich with Nuggets
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a contact line between two distinct layers of rock inside 'Endurance Crater.' The layers are defined by subtle color and texture variations and represent separate chapters in Mars' history.
PIA06309:
Microscopic Image Inside 'Endurance'
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took the images that make up this mosaic with its microscopic imager on June 14, 2004. The target is a rock called 'Tennessee,' which was drilled into by the rover's rock abrasion tool.
PIA06287:
A Hole in 'Tennessee'
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This image was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity from its position on the southeast side of the rim of 'Endurance' Crater on Mars.
PIA06016:
Up Close and Personal
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This image was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity showing 'Panoramic Position 2' on the southeast side of the rim of 'Endurance' Crater on Mars.
PIA06017:
Are Ripples a Sign of Water?
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This mosaic of four images from the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the freshly exposed interior of a rock dubbed 'Lion Stone' after the rover's rock abrasion tool ground away a circular patch of the rock's surface.
PIA05978:
Rock Interior Exposed Near 'Endurance'
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the hole drilled by the rover's rock abrasion tool into the rock dubbed 'Pilbara.' A sliced 'blueberry,' or spherule, which is darker and harder than the rest of the rock is visible.
PIA05831:
Door to 'Pilbara'
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This image taken by the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the hole drilled by the rover's rock abrasion tool into the rock dubbed 'Pilbara.' The process left a pile of rock powder around the side of the hole.
PIA05824:
'Blueberry' Exposed
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This image was taken by the microscopic imager onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on sol 99 (April 13, 2004). It is a close-up look at a portion of the rock called 'Route 66,' which was brushed by the rover's rock abrasion tool.
PIA05761:
Smooth Side of 'Route 66'
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit acquired this microscopic imager view of its capture magnet on April 6, 2004. The magnets' primary purpose is to collect the martian magnetic dust so it can be analyzied with the rover's Moessbauer spectrometers.
PIA05730:
Martian Magnets Under the Microscope
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In 90 martian days, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit performed a remarkable series of drives, digs and scientific investigations at Gusev Crater, Mars.
PIA05724:
90 Sols in 90 Seconds Animation Icon
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This 3-D image taken by the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a close-up of the center of the rock abrasion tool hole, ground into 'Bounce.' 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA05687:
A Crack Runs Through It
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This close-up image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's microscopic imager shows a section of the hole drilled into the rock dubbed 'Mazatzal' after the hole was ground for a second time.
PIA05680:
'Mazatzal's' Many Coats
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This enhanced-color image NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the rock dubbed 'Mazatzal' after a portion of its surface was brushed clean by the rover's rock abrasion tool. The reddish material on the left is the original dust coating.
PIA05679:
'Mazatzal's' Sparkly Self
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This microscopic image mosaic was created by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit after it had completed a second grind with its rock abrasion tool at the target 'New York' on the rock named 'Mazatzal.'
PIA05661:
A Grind Well Done
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This mosaic, created from four images taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's microscopic imager, outlines the target on 'Bounce' rock that the rover's rock abrasion tool later abraded.
PIA05660:
Eye on "Bounce"
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the four images that make up this mosaic that reveals the drilled surface of the target called 'New York' on the rock dubbed 'Mazatzal.'
PIA05658:
A Tough Grind
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The image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity illustrates the tremendous variety of soil types and shapes found in Eagle Crater on Mars.
PIA05651:
No Two Soil Patches Are Alike
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The image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity features small grains one millimeter (0.04 inch) or less in size and somewhat lighter in color than those in other soil units observed in Eagle Crater.
PIA05650:
'Vanilla' Under the Microscope
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's 'Eagle Crater' soil survey displays a mixture of light and dark soil units with several different types of clasts, or particles, held in surrounding fine-grained sands.
PIA05649:
'Cookies and Cream' Under the Microscope
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This image of the soil target, informally called 'Punaluu' after the black sand beaches of Hawaii, was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's microscopic imager during the rover's 'Eagle Crater' soil survey.
PIA05647:
'Punaluu' Under the Microscope
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This image of 'Punaluu' named after the white sand beaches of Hawaii, was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity showing irregularly shaped, light-colored, millimeter-sized (0.04 inch) clasts, or particles, in a fine-grained soil.
PIA05646:
'Lanikai' Under the Microscope
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This figure shows spectra taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's Moessbauer spectrometer at various spots in 'Eagle Crater.' Top to bottom, the spectra represent soil measurements taken from the center of the crater and out to the rim.
PIA05640:
Keepers of the Hematite
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a close-up of texture interpreted as cross-lamination evidence that sediments forming the rock were laid down in flowing water on Mars' Meridiani Planum.
PIA05626:
"Last Chance" Evidence of Ancient Water Flow
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a close-up of texture interpreted as cross-lamination evidence that sediments forming the rock were laid down in flowing water on Mars' Meridiani Planum.
PIA05625:
"Last Chance" Evidence of Ancient Water Flow
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This magnified view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity of a portion of a martian rock called 'Upper Dells' shows fine layers (laminae) that are truncated, discordant and at angles to each other. Eight spherules are embedded in the rock.
PIA05624:
"Upper Dells" Clues to Watery History
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a scour surface or ripple trough lamination. These features are consistent with sedimentation on a moist surface where wind-driven processes may also have occurred.
PIA05623:
Signs of Soft-Sediment Deformation at "Slickrock"
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A microscopic image shows variability of grain size, medium-sized, well rounded and sorted, within a parallel-stratified portion of the 'Slickrock' area in the martian rock outcrop examined by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
PIA05622:
Grain Size Variability in Rock Layers
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took this microscopic image of the drift dubbed 'Serpent' on Mars after successfully digging into the side of the drift. The drift is dominated by larger pea-shaped particles.
PIA05598:
A Double Take at 'Serpent' Drift
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took this microscopic image of the drift dubbed 'Serpent' on Mars after successfully digging into the side of the drift. The drift is dominated by larger pea-shaped particles.
PIA05597:
A Double Take at "Serpent" Drift
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This microscopic image, taken at the outcrop region dubbed 'Berry Bowl' near NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's landing site, shows the sphere-like grains or 'blueberries' that fill Berry Bowl.
PIA05586:
'Blueberry' Triplets Born in Rock
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This microscopic image was taken at the outcrop region dubbed 'El Capitan' near NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's landing site reveals millimeter-scale layers running horizontally.
PIA05585:
'Blueberry' Layers Indicate Watery Origins
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows 'blueberries' discovered on Mars. They are spherules that are the abundant spherical hematite inclusions.
PIA05564:
Finding the 'Blueberry' Muffin Recipe
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The holes seen here were created by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's rock abrasion tool. The mosaic, created on March 7, 2004, is the first of its kind of an abraded surface on Mars.
PIA05523:
The Biggest Microscopic Image Ever
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