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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-06-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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 2007-01-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Rovers Get New Driving Capability
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Rovers Get New Driving Capability Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This frame from an animation zooms in on the area on Mars where NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will touchdown on May 25, 2008. The image was taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA10669:
Zooming in on Landing Site Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-27 Phoenix
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera to take a picture of the Phoenix lander roughly 22 hours after landing.
PIA10704:
Simulated Imaging of Phoenix Landing Site Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-12-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is part of simulated flyover showing rhythmic layers of sedimentary rock inside Becquerel crater on Mars.
PIA11444:
Flyover Animation of Becquerel Crater on Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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A rippled patch of sand in Becquerel Crater on Mars moved about two meters (about two yards) between November 24, 2006 and September 5, 2010, in one of two images taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA14876:
Blowing in the Martian Wind Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The eastern margin of a rippled dune in Herschel Crater on Mars moved an average distance of three meters (about three yards) between March 3, 2007 and December 1, 2010, in one of two images taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA14877:
Shifting Sand in Herschel Crater Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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A rippled dune front in Herschel Crater on Mars moved an average of about two meters (about two yards) between March 3, 2007 and December 1, 2010, as seen in one of two images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA14878:
Rippling Dune Front in Herschel Crater on Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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A rippled dune front in Herschel Crater on Mars moved an average of about one meter (about one yard) between March 3, 2007 and December 1, 2010, as seen in one of two images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA14879:
Rippling Dune Front in Herschel Crater on Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-11-17 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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A dune in the northern polar region of Mars shows significant changes between June 25, 2008 and May 21, 2010 in one of two images taken on by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA14880:
Movement in Martian Dune Field Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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A Martian dust devil was captured winding its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14, 2012 NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA15545:
Mars' Whirling Dust Devil Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-05-09 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, from an animation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a dark, rippled sand dune overlying bright-toned rock.
PIA15295:
Advancing Dune in Nili Patera, Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-05-09 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, one of two from a two-image animation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows movement of ripples covering a sand dune on Mars.
PIA15680:
Ripple Movement on Sand Dune in Nili Patera, Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-04-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows wind-caused changes in the parachute of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft as the chute lay on the Martian ground during months after its use in safe landing of the Curiosity rover.
PIA16813:
MSL's Parachute Flapping in the Wind Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-12-10 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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These images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the appearance of dark markings on Martian slope changes with the seasons. The marks, called recurrent slope linea extend down slopes during warmer months.
PIA17606:
Seasonal Changes in Dark Marks on an Equatorial Martian Slope Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This frame from an animated artist's rendering begins with NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft above Mars. The movie then transitions to a sequence of HiRISE images of the comet taken as it flew past Mars.
PIA19045:
Mars Orbiter Observes Comet Siding Spring (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This frame from a movie sequence of images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring before and after its close pass by Mars in October 2014. False color enhances subtle variations in brightness in the comet's coma.
PIA19044:
Mars-Flyby Comet in False Color Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This frame from an animation simulates a flyover of a portion of a Martian canyon detailed in a geological map produced by the U.S. Geological Survey and based on observations by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19085:
Simulated Flyover of Mars Canyon Map (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This frame from a sequence of images shows a blast zone where the sky crane from NASA's Curiosity rover mission hit the ground after setting the rover down in August 2012. The images are from HiRISE on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19159:
Changes in Scars From 2012 Mars Landing Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-07-29 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Martian gullies as seen in the top image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter resemble gullies on Earth that are carved by liquid water.
PIA20763:
Adding Composition Data About Mars Gullies Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-28 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This frame from an animation simulates a fly-around look at one of the places on Mars where dark streaks advance down slopes during warm seasons, possibly involving liquid water. This image is from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19919:
Animation of Site of Seasonal Flows in Hale Crater, Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-12-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the growth of a branching network of troughs carved by thawing carbon dioxide over the span of three Martian years.
PIA21257:
'Baby Spider': Growth of a Martian Trough Network Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-08 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been observing Mars in sharp detail for more than a decade, enabling it to document many types of changes, such as the way winds alter the appearance of this recent impact site.
PIA21267:
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Observes Changes Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-09-25 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on September 20, 2018 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows NASA's Opportunity rover as a blip.
PIA22549:
Opportunity After the Dust Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-12-13 Mars Mars 2020
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This animation, constructed using data from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, provides an airborne perspective of the Mars 2020 landing site and its exploration area at Jezero Crater.
PIA22905:
Jezero Crater Flyover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-05-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This animation shows a proposed route for NASA's Curiosity rover, which is climbing lower Mount Sharp on Mars.
PIA23179:
Curiosity's Proposed Path up Mount Sharp
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-05-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This series of images shows carbon dioxide ice sublimating (going directly from a solid to a gas) inside a pit at Mars' south pole. Each frame of the animation was taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA23238:
HiRISE Spots CO2 Ice Sublimating
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-10-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This animation shows the position of NASA's Curiosity rover as it journeyed through 'the clay-bearing unit' on Mars between May 31 and July 20, 2019. The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took both images.
PIA23377:
HiRISE Watches Curiosity Journey Across the Clay Unit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will follow the proposed route to Jezero Crater's delta shown in this animation. The delta is one the most important locations the rover will visit as it seeks signs of ancient life on Mars.
PIA25173:
Perseverance's Route to the Delta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This animation depicts a flyover of a meteoroid impact crater on Mars that's surrounded by boulder-size chunks of ice. The animation was created using data from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA25586:
Flyover of Mars Impact Using HiRISE Data (Animation)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This animation shows the position of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as of Dec. 4, 2024.
PIA26480:
Proposed Route of Perseverance's Northern Rim Science Campaign
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-12-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's InSight Mars lander acquires the same reddish-brown hue as the rest of the planet in a set of images from 2018 to 2024 that were captured by the agency's MRO HiRISE camera.
PIA26515:
HiRISE Studies the Dust on InSight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-06-05 Mars InSight
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The robotic arm on NASA's Mars InSight lander moves in place over the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) and opens the fingers of its grapple in this series of images from June 1, 2019.
PIA23277:
Getting Ready to Help InSight's Heat Probe
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-10-03 Mars InSight
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NASA InSight's robotic arm will use its scoop to pin the spacecraft's heat probe, or 'mole,' against the wall of its hole.
PIA23373:
Preparing to Pin the Mole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-11-06 Mars InSight
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The shadow of NASA InSight's robotic arm moves over its heat probe on Nov. 3, 2019, the 333rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA23512:
InSight's Arm Camera Stares Into the Pit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-02-21 Mars InSight
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InSight recently moved its robotic arm closer to its digging device, called the mole, in preparation to push on its top, or back cap.
PIA23622:
InSight Prepares to Push on the Mole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-07 Mars InSight
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The movement of sand grains in the scoop on the end of NASA InSight's robotic arm suggests that the spacecraft's self-hammering mole had begun tapping the bottom of the scoop while hammering on June 20, 2020.
PIA23896:
NASA InSight's Mole Taps the Bottom of the Lander's Scoop
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-16 Mars InSight
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NASA's InSight retracted its robotic arm on Oct. 3, 2020, revealing where the spike-like mole is trying to burrow into Mars. In the coming months, the arm will scrape and tamp down soil on top of the mole to help it dig.
PIA24098:
InSight's Arm Pulls Back, Revealing the Mole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-10-16 Mars InSight
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This footage from Aug. 19, 2019, shows a replica of InSight scraping soil with a scoop on the end of its robotic arm in a test lab at JPL. On Mars, InSight will scrape and tamp down soil on top of the mole to help it dig.
PIA24099:
Replica of InSight's Arm Practices Scraping
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-14 Mars InSight
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The mole, a heat probe that traveled to Mars aboard NASA's InSight lander, as it looked after hammering on Jan. 9, 2021. After trying since Feb. 28, 2019, to bury the probe, the mission team called an end to their efforts.
PIA24263:
InSight's Mole Comes to Rest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-01 Mars InSight
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NASA's InSight lander used a scoop on its robotic arm to begin trickling soil over the cable connecting its seismometer to the spacecraft on March 14, 2021. Scientists hope insulating it from the wind will make it easier to detect marsquakes.
PIA24450:
InSight Starts Burying Seismometer's Cable
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-03 Mars InSight
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To clean a bit of dust from one of its solar panels, NASA's InSight lander trickled sand above the panel. The wind-borne sand grains then picked up some dust on the panel, enabling the lander to gain about 30 watt-hours of energy per sol on May 22, 2021.
PIA24664:
InSight's Robotic Arm Helps Remove Solar Panel Dust Trickles Sand in the Wind
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-26 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity brushing bright materials off a circular patch of the rock dubbed 'Mazatzal.' The freshly exposed rock was investigated by instruments on the rover's arm March 25, 2004.
PIA05637:
Spring Cleaning Animation Icon
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-03 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This frame from an animation shows the location of a set of Hazard-Avoidance cameras on the back of NASA's Curiosity rover.
PIA15960:
Curiosity's Hazard Cameras Ready for Action Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-09 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This frame from a set of three images from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the rover's drill in action on Feb. 8, 2013, or Sol 182, Curiosity's 182nd Martian day of operations.
PIA16728:
Ready, Set, Drill Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-06-05 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This frame from an animation from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows the rover drilling into rock target 'Cumberland.' The drilling was performed during the 279th Martian day, or sol, of the Curiosity's work on Mars (May 19, 2013).
PIA17068:
Curiosity Mars Rover Drilling Into Its Second Rock Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-01 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Here is a rover's eye view of driving, scooping and drilling during Curiosity's first year on Mars, August 2012 through July 2013 taken by NASA's Mars rover's Navigation Camera (Navcam).
PIA17084:
Twelve Months in Two Minutes; Curiosity's First Year on Mars Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as the rover drove over a dune spanning 'Dingo Gap' on Mars. The light-toned dome on the right side of the horizon is part of Mount Sharp.
PIA17938:
Movie of Curiosity's View Backwards While Crossing Dune Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity rover used its front and rear black-and-white Hazcams to capture 12 hours of a Martian day. The rover's shadow is visible on the surface in these images taken by the front Hazcam.
PIA26209:
Curiosity's Hazcams Capture a Day on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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These sets of animated GIFs show seven views of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover wiggling its wheels on March 4, 2021, the day Perseverance completed its first drive on Mars.
PIA24489:
Multiple Views of Perseverance's Wheels Wiggling
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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 2022-01-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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An animated GIF depicts the Martian surface below the Perseverance rover, showing the results of the Jan. 15, 2022, percussive drill test to clear cored-rock fragments from one of the rover's sample tubes.
PIA25070:
Before and After Perseverance Sample Tube Shake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This GIF shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collecting two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – with a regolith sampling bit on the end of its robotic arm.
PIA25654:
NASA's Perseverance Rover Collects Regolith
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This movie is made from images taken by the Mars Perseverance rover's Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera between Sol 13 (March 4, 2021) and Sol 708 (Feb. 16, 2023), during the first two years of the rover's surface mission.
PIA25799:
Front Left Hazcam – Two Year Movie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-31 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This animation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover collecting a rock sample from an outcrop the science team calls Berea using a coring bit on the end of its robotic arm. The images were taken by one of the rover's front hazard cameras.
PIA25689:
Perseverance Cores 'Berea'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The 21st rock core captured by NASA's Perseverance has a composition that would make it good at trapping and preserving signs of microbial life, if any was once present. The sample was cored from Bunsen Peak on March 12, 2024.
PIA26314:
Perseverance Cores 'Bunsen Peak'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2025-04-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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One of Perseverance's hazard cameras captured the rover's coring drill collecting the Main River rock sample on Witch Hazel Hill on March 10, 2025.
PIA26571:
Perseverance Cores 'Main River'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER), Spirit, shows the rover's wheels tucked under in pre-stand-up position in this image taken in January, 2004.
PIA05031:
Spirit Rises to the Occasion (Animation) Animation Icon
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER), Spirit, shows deployment of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's bogie, a part of the rover's suspension system that extends the wheel base.
PIA05040:
Spirit Stretches Out Animation Icon
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit, shows the rover is stowing and unstowing its robotic arm, or instrument deployment device. The device is designed to hold and maneuver the various instruments on board helped scientists get up-close and personal
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In and Out (Animation) Animation Icon
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This image shows the view from the front hazard avoidance cameras onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit before the rover begins a crucial 3-point turn to face in a west direction and roll off the lander.
PIA05050:
Rover Pre-Turn Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-13 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This still from an animation shows the view from the front hazard avoidance cameras on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit as the rover turned 45 degrees clockwise. The turn took around 30 minutes to complete.
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This still from an animation shows the view from the front hazard avoidance cameras on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit as the rover turned 45 degrees clockwise. The turn took around 30 minutes to complete.
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This animation shows the view from the front hazard avoidance cameras onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit as the rover turned 95 degrees clockwise.
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This still from an animation shows the view from the rear hazard avoidance cameras on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit as the rover turned 95 degrees clockwise.
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This still from an animation composed of four images taken by the front hazard-identification camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows the rover stretching out its robotic arm, or instrument deployment device.
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This still from an animation strings together five different snapshots of the martian soil captured by the microscopic imager onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. Each picture was taken from a different height.
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This still from an animation shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit heading toward its first rock target, a football-sized, mountain-shaped rock called Adirondack in 2004.
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This image taken at Meridiani Planum, shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's wheels in their stowed configuration. As January 28, 2004, the rover had deployed its wheels and completed the first half of the stand-up process.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This image was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during its approximately(69.6-foot drive across the pebbly ground at Gusev Crater, Mars, on Feb. 9, 2004.
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The colored data are from NASA's Spirit's hazard-avoidance camera and have been reconstructed to show the topography of the land across the bumpy terrain at Gusev Crater, Mars/
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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.
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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.
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit dug a trench in the fine-grained soil lining the bottom of the shallow depression dubbed 'Laguna Hollow.' A trench 3 inches deep was created after the rover dragged one of its wheels back and forth across the surface.
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the trenching site dubbed 'Laguna Hollow' after it dug a trench 3 inches deep in the fine-grained soil lining the bottom of the shallow depression.
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its robotic arm to examine 'Bounce Rock' during the rover's 67th sol on Mars, April 1, 2004.
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This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity digging a trench near the trough dubbed 'Anatolia' with its left front wheel on sol 73. It was taken by the rover's hazard-avoidance camera.
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This image shows Spirit driving itself through the rocky terrain of Gusev Crater May 8, 2004, using its auto-navigation software. Halfway through the drive, the rover spotted a rock bigger than its wheels and drove around to the left.
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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.
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Spirit Arm Movements for Mosaic of
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This image shows dust devils moving across the plain inside Mars' Gusev Crater, as seen with a hazard-identification camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on July 29, 2005.
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the last few days of the rover's ascent to the crest of 'Husband Hill' inside Mars' Gusev Crater. The rover was going in reverse.
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This false-color view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit taken on Oct 6, 2005 shows a captivating rock outcrop nicknamed 'Hillary' at the summit of 'Husband Hill' after the rover had completed a difficult, rocky ascent.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This NASA Spirit image view is toward the north, looking down at Spirit's front wheels. It is one of a series of wide-angle views shown one after the other. Go to the Photojournal to view the animation.
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This NASA Spirit image view is toward the south, looking down at Spirit's rear wheels. It is one of a series of wide-angle views shown one after the other. Go to the Photojournal to view the animation.
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This image is one of two images which documents very slight forward movement of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during a drive on the rover's 2,090th Martian day, or sol (Nov. 19, 2009).
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Movement from Spirit's Third Extrication Drive
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Little Movement in Spirit's Sol 2099 Drive
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