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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-16 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Microscopic Imager
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This image taken by the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the powdery soil of Mars in 3-D. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA05095:
Martian Soil in 3-D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-16 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image taken by the front hazard-identification camera onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows the rover's robotic arm, or instrument deployment device.
PIA05096:
Spirit Reaches for Closer Look
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-16 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's rear hazard-identification camera. Well-defined track characteristics suggest the presence of very fine particles in the martian soil (along with larger particles).
PIA05097:
Spirit Leaves Telling Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-16 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit highlights the first patch of soil examined by the rover's microscopic imager in 2004.
PIA05098:
Virtual Rover Deploys Arm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-16 Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Footage taken at the JPL In-Situ Instruments Laboratory, or 'testbed,' shows engineers practicing the deployment of the test rover's robotic arm.
PIA05092:
Spirit Reaches Out at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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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.
PIA05099:
Rover Takes a Sunday Drive Animation Icon
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In the foreground of this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit are two rocks dubbed 'Sashimi' and 'Sushi.'
PIA05100:
Ready to Rock and Roll
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image shows a screenshot from the software used by engineers to test and drive NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. The rover drove toward its first rock target, a mountain-shaped rock called Adirondack.
PIA05101:
Virtual Rover Drives Toward Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image taken by the panoramic camera onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit before it rolled off the lander shows the rocky surface of Mars. The lander's deflated airbags can be seen in the foreground.
PIA05102:
Rocks: Windows to History of Mars-2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows 'Adirondack,' the rover's first target rock. Spirit traversed the sandy martian terrain at Gusev Crater to arrive in front of the football-sized rock on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004.
PIA05104:
"They of the Great Rocks"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows 'Adirondack,' the rover's first target rock. Spirit traversed the sandy martian terrain at Gusev Crater to arrive in front of the football-sized rock on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004.
PIA05106:
"They of the Great Rocks"-3
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This 3-D stereo anaglyph image was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA05107:
Approaching Rock Target No. 1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image was taken by the panoramic camera onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit before it rolled off the lander shows the rocky surface of Mars in 2004.
PIA05108:
Rocks: Windows to History of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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In the foreground of this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit are two rocks dubbed 'Sashimi' and 'Sushi.'
PIA05103:
Hungry for Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows 'Adirondack,' the rover's first target rock. Spirit traversed the sandy martian terrain at Gusev Crater to arrive in front of the football-sized rock on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004.
PIA05105:
"They of the Great Rocks"-2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit looks back at the circular tracks made in the martian soil when it drove toward the mountain-shaped rock called Adirondack, Spirit's first rock target. Two rocks called 'Sashimi' and 'Sushi' are seen in the distance.
PIA05109:
Spirit Takes a Turn for Adirondack
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit observes a patch of soil scientists examined at Gusev Crater just after Spirit rolled off the Columbia Memorial Station.
PIA05110:
Super Soil? Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-20 Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image taken at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows the Moessbauer spectrometer, an instrument on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit that detects iron-bearing minerals in martian rocks and soil.
PIA05111:
Powerful Yet Tiny Machine
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This spectrum captured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the presence of three different iron-bearing minerals in the soil at the rover's landing site. One mineral has been identified as olivine, a shiny green rock commonly found in lava.
PIA05112:
Mysterious Lava Mineral on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-20 Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Located on the arm of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer uses alpha particles and X-rays to determine the chemical make up of martian rocks and soils.
PIA05113:
Super Rover's X-Ray Vision
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit the variety of elements present in the soil at the rover's landing site. Iron and silicon make up the majority of the martian soil. Sulfur and chlorine were also observed as expected.
PIA05114:
A Rainbow of Martian Elements
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit probing its first target rock, Adirondack. At the time this picture was snapped, the rover had begun analyzing the rock with the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer located on its robotic arm.
PIA05115:
Spirit Switches on Its X-ray Vision
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-20 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the region containing the patch of soil scientists examined at Gusev Crater just after Spirit rolled off the Columbia Memorial Station. Rocks are strewn on Mars' red surface.
PIA05116:
The Mystery Soil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-21 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the rover's landing site, the Columbia Memorial Station, at Gusev Crater, Mars. A portion of Spirit's solar panels appear in the foreground.
PIA05117:
Empty Nest
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-23 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Telemetry sent down to Earth from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has been reconstructed to create a reenactment of the rover's final 30 seconds before landing at Gusev Crater, Mars. Seconds before the rover landed, its airbags were inflated.
PIA05130:
A Flyby Tour of Spirit's Descent-2 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-23 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Telemetry sent down to Earth from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has been reconstructed to create a reenactment of the rover's final 30 seconds before landing at Gusev Crater, Mars. This image is a still from that movie.
PIA05129:
A Flyby Tour of Spirit's Descent Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
Panoramic Camera
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Spirit Lightens the Load
PIA05131:
Spirit Lightens the Load
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-23 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES)
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This image shows the path (blue line) taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit as it bounced down to its final resting spot in Gusev Crater, Mars.
PIA05132:
Bouncing Down to Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image shows a close-up of the backshell and parachute NASA's Mars Exploration rover Spirit dropped while landing at Gusev Crater on Mars on Jan. 3, 2004. The backshell is the smaller white mark to the left of the parachute.
PIA05133:
Spirit's Hardware Up Close on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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The bright triangle seen in these images is NASA's Mars Exploration rover Spirit's lander resting at the Gusev Crater landing site on Mars after a nerve-wracking entry, descent and landing process on Jan. 3, 2004.
PIA05134:
Spirit's Successful Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-23 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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The image on the left is a computer-generated model of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's lander at Gusev Crater. On right is an actual image of the lander on Mars taken Jan. 19, 2004, by the camera onboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.
PIA05135:
View from above Landing Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-23 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This high-resolution image shows a computer-generated model of Spirit's lander at Gusev Crater as engineers and scientists would have expected to see it from a perfect overhead view.
PIA05136:
Behold Spirit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-23 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This 3-D image combines computer-generated models of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and its lander with real surface data from the rover's panoramic camera. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA05137:
On Its Own
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-29 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows its robotic arm extended to the rock called Adirondack.
PIA05167:
Recovering Spirit Sends a New Picture
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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A spectrum from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reveals the different iron-containing minerals that makeup the martian rock dubbed Adirondack.
PIA05174:
Adirondack's Inner Self
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the football-sized rock was dubbed Adirondack because of its mountain-shaped appearance after the rover's first post-egress drive on Mars Sunday, Jan. 15, 2004.
PIA05175:
Adirondack Under the Microscope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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An overhead look at the martian rock dubbed Adirondack captured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit where the rover's microscopic imager began its first close-up inspection.
PIA05176:
Adirondack Under the Microscope-2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-30 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit close-up look at the martian rock dubbed Adirondack. The rock's smooth and pitted surface is revealed in this first-ever microscopic image of a rock on another planet.
PIA05177:
Adirondack's Finer Side
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Two of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's potential target rocks, which are near the rock called Adirondack in Gusev Crater.
PIA05178:
Recovering Spirit Sets Sight on Cake
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-02 Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image taken at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows the panoramic camera used onboard both NASA Mars Exploration Rovers.
PIA05187:
Multihued Mars
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers use color calibration targets to fine-tune the rovers' sense of color and thus, that the observed colors of Mars match the colors of the chips, and thus approximate the red planet's true colors.
PIA05188:
True Colors Shining Through
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the 'Magic Carpet' region near the rover at Gusev Crater, Mars. Each color on the spectra matches a line on the graph assessing the varying mineral compositions of martian rocks and soils.
PIA05189:
Magic Carpet Shows Its Colors
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the red-hued seven hills on Mars are named for those seven brave souls, the final crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
PIA05200:
NASA Dedicates Mars Landmarks to Columbia Crew
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-06 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows a cleaned off portion of the rock dubbed Adirondack. In preparation for grinding into the rock, Spirit wiped off a fine coat of dust with a stainless steel brush located on its rock abrasion tool.
PIA05216:
Shiny and New
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows a cleaned off portion of the rock dubbed Adirondack. In preparation for grinding into the rock, Spirit wiped off a fine coat of dust with a brush located on its rock abrasion tool.
PIA05218:
Adirondack's True Self
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the rock dubbed Adirondack before the rover wiped off a portion of the rock's dust coating with a stainless steel brush located on its rock abrasion tool.
PIA05219:
Dirty Adirondack
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows its 'hand,' or the tip of the instrument deployment device, poised in front of the rock nicknamed Adirondack. A stainless steel brush located on its rock abrasion tool is seen here at the end of the yellow arrow.
PIA05220:
Back in Action
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The piece of metal with the American flag on it in this image of a NASA rover on Mars is made of aluminum recovered from the site of the World Trade Center towers in the weeks after their destruction.
PIA05221:
Interplanetary Memorial to Victims of Sept. 11, 2001
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Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows its rock abrasion tool after it had ground off the surface of a patch 1.8 inches in diameter on a rock called Adirondack; history's first grinding of a rock on Mars.
PIA05223:
First Grinding of a Rock on Mars
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Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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The round, shallow depression in this image resulted from history's first grinding of a rock on Mars. The rock abrasion tool on NASA's Spirit rover ground off the surface of a patch 1.8 inches in diameter on a rock called Adirondack.
PIA05239:
Spirit's First Grinding of a Rock on Mars
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 Navigation Camera
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove itself 3 feet out of 21 feet at Gusev Crater, Mars, on Feb. 8, 2004. This image shows the tracks it created in the martian soil as it drove straight ahead, then to the left.
PIA05240:
Spirit Self-motivates
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-09 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Microscopic Imager
Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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This close-up image taken by the microscopic imager onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the rock dubbed Adirondack after a portion of its surface was ground off by the rover's rock abrasion tool.
PIA05241:
Inner Adirondack
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This is a three-dimensional stereo anaglyph of an image taken by the front navigation camera onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, showing an interesting patch of rippled soil. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA05249:
Ripples in The Soil
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NASA's Spirit rover took this image on Feb. 9, 2004, after completing the longest drive ever made by a rover on another planet. The wavy feature called a bedform is created when material is transported and deposited by some process, in this case wind.
PIA05250:
Spirit Spies Wavy Bedforms
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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.
PIA05267:
Strolling on Martian Ground Animation Icon
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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/
PIA05268:
Mind of Its Own Animation Icon
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This image is a still from a computer-generated animation showing NASA's Mars Exploration Rover inspecting the rock dubbed Stone Mountain with its instrument deployment device, or arm.
PIA05269:
Inspector Gadget
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This graph shows that the air 30 meters above the surface of Mars at Gusev Crater, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's landing site, is hotter and fluctuates in temperature to a larger degree than the air higher up at 500 meters.
PIA05271:
The Heat Below
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 Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer
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This graph shows atmospheric temperatures above the surface of Mars at Gusev Crater, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's landing site. The color red denotes warmer temperatures, while blue is cooler. Red and yellow waves of represent pockets of heat.
PIA05272:
Martian Heat on the Rise
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Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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This 3D anaglyph, from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows a microscopic image taken of the rock called Adirondack. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA05277:
A Clean Adirondack (3-D)
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Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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This 3D anaglyph, from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, shows a microscopic image taken of the rock called Adirondack. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA05278:
Adirondack Post-Drill (3-D)
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This color image taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's panoramic camera on Sol 40, 2004 is centered on an unusually flaky rock called 'Mimi' on Gusev Crater.
PIA05283:
Flaky "Mimi"
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This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the red-green-blue rock called White Boat, light in color and more tabular shape compared to the dark, rounded rocks that surround it.
PIA05290:
Sailing to White Boat
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 Moessbauer Spectrometer
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This close-up image of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's instrument deployment device, or 'arm,' shows the donut-shaped plate on the Moessbauer spectrometer.
PIA05302:
Moessbauer Close-Up
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Moessbauer Spectrometer
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This elevation map of a soil target called 'Peak' was created from images taken by the microscopic imager located on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's instrument deployment device or 'arm.'
PIA05303:
Map of Moessbauer Placement
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Moessbauer Spectrometer
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This image, taken by the microscopic imager onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, reveals an imprint left on martian soil by another instrument, the Moessbauer spectrometer. The imprint is within the rover wheel track named 'Middle of Road.'
PIA05313:
Mark of the Moessbauer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-18 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This mosaic image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the area in front of the rover after its record 27.5 meters (90.2 feet) drive on Sol 43, which ended February 16, 2004.
PIA05314:
Spirit Spies "Bonneville"
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This 360-degree mosaic panorama image, taken by the navigation camera onboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, includes a view of the lander. The lander is to the south-southwest of the rover, which is moving toward a crater nicknamed 'Bonneville.'
PIA05315:
Spirit Keeps Rolling
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-18 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Navigation Camera
Panoramic Camera
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This overlay map lays navigation and panoramic camera images taken by NASA's Mars Exploration rover Spirit from the surface of Mars on top of one of Spirit's descent images taken as the spacecraft descended to the martian surface.
PIA05317:
Spirit's Path to Bonneville
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows a circular depression, dubbed 'Laguna Hollow,' most likely formed by a small impact. The rover's tracks are seen in front of the rover.
PIA05318:
Spirit Does a "Jig" at Laguna Hollow
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NASA's Opportunity rover shows soil clods exposed in the upper wall of the trench dug by its right front wheel. The presence of soil clods implies weak bonding between individual soil grains.
PIA05319:
The Trench Throws a Dirt Clod at Scientists
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's view from its location inside the shallow depression dubbed 'Laguna Hollow.' To get a better look at the soil making up the hollow, Spirit drove forward a bit, wiggled its wheels, then turned and backed up.
PIA05333:
Wiggling Its Way to Discovery
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This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's view from its location inside the shallow depression dubbed 'Laguna Hollow.' Tracks in the soil show that Spirit drove forward a bit, wiggled its wheels, then turned and backed up.
PIA05321:
Wiggling Its Way to Discovery
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This map shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's travels since arriving on the red planet Jan. 3, 2004. Data within the yellow box represent a digital map made of images taken by rover's panoramic and navigation cameras.
PIA05329:
Halfway There
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This image shows the patch of soil at the bottom of the shallow depression dubbed 'Laguna Hollow' where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit began trenching in 2004. Seen here are a clustering of small pebbles and crack-like fine lines.
PIA05330:
'Laguna Hollow'Undisturbed
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A view from NASA's Spirit rover shows a trench excavated by the rover's left front wheel within the 'Laguna Hollow' area. The trench, dubbed 'Road Cut,' is 3 inches deep. Spirit's tracks are observed on the martian soil.
PIA05337:
Spirit Digs a Trench
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit casts a shadow over the trench that the rover dug with its left front wheel and is examining with tools on its robotic arm.
PIA05339:
Spirit Shadow over Laguna Trench
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This traverse map shows NASA's Mars Exploration rover Spirit reached the point called 'Laguna Hollow.' The rover had driven 131 meters (430 feet) from Columbia Memorial Station. On the horizon behind the lander looms 'Grissom Hill.' A yellow line follow
PIA05441:
Covered Ground
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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.
PIA05344:
Breaking Martian Ground Animation Icon
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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.
PIA05345:
Draped in the Rover's Shadow Animation Icon
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This map shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's travels since arriving on the red planet Jan. 3, 2004 PST. Spirit was on its way to a large crater nicknamed 'Bonneville.'
PIA05448:
Getting Closer
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's view of the rocky and bumpy terrain that lies between it and the large crater dubbed 'Bonneville.' A large rock called 'Humphries' can be seen.
PIA05449:
The Bumpy Road Ahead
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows 'Laguna Hollow,' the shallow depression where Spirit dug a trench in 2004. Spirit stayed in this location for 3 sols, investigating the fine-grained soil and the trench it dug with one of its wheels.
PIA05450:
Long and Winding Road
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's shows the windblown waves of soil that characterize the rocky surface of Gusev Crater, Mars. Ripples are shaped by gentle winds that deposit coarse grains on the tops or crests of the waves.
PIA05452:
Ripples or Dunes?
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's shows peak-like formations on the martian terrain at Gusev Crater. Seen are particles made of dust, sand and coarse sand, with their sizes approximating flour, sugar, and ball bearings, respectively.
PIA05453:
Are They Telltale Ripples?
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the troughs between the waves of windblown soil that characterize the surface of Gusev Crater. The fine-grained soil, combined with coarse grains indicate that waves are geologic features known as ripples.
PIA05454:
The Answer is in the Crests and Troughs
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the tops or crests of the waves of windblown soil that characterize the surface of Gusev Crater. The fine-grained soil, combined with coarse grains indicate that waves are geologic features known as ripples.
PIA05455:
The Answer is in the Crests and Troughs -2
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This image of a rock called 'Humphrey' was taken by the NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on Mars. Likely a basaltic rock, the fractures are thought to have been caused by the impact as it was hurled from the crater to its current resting place.
PIA05466:
Heading for Humphrey
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the large, imposing shadowed rock in the foreground nicknamed 'Sandia' for a mountain range in New Mexico. Many smaller rocks can be seen in the background.
PIA05497:
Accidental Art
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Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a hole drilled by the rover's rock abrasion tool located on its robotic arm in the rock dubbed 'Humphrey.'
PIA05499:
A Hole in Humphrey
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Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a close-up look at the rock dubbed 'Humphrey.' The image was taken after the rover drilled into the rock with its rock abrasion tool, exposing fresh rock underneath.
PIA05500:
Humphrey on the Inside
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Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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In this false-color image NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rock dubbed 'Humphrey' and the hole drilled into the rock by the rover. Spirit ground into the rock with the rock abrasion tool located on its robotic arm.
PIA05501:
A Hole In Humphrey
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Navigation Camera
Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rock dubbed 'Humphrey' and the circular areas on the rock that were wiped off by the rover before drilling into the rock with its rock abrasion tool, exposing fresh rock underneath.
PIA05502:
Rock Dusting Leaves "Mickey Mouse" Mark
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Panoramic Camera
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This map shows the path NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit will traveled toward its future target, the large crater dubbed 'Bonneville.' The red line indicates travels up to the 59th martian day of its journey, and the blue line, the route it followed.
PIA05506:
What Lies Ahead
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This illustration shows the locations of the various magnets on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover, which are: its front side, or chest; its back, near the color calibration target; and on its rock abrasion tool.
PIA05511:
Rover Magnets All Around
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NASA's Spirit used its panoramic camera to capture this view of the rocky terrain just to the left of straight ahead after finishing a drive to the northeast on March 5, 2004.
PIA05516:
Front Windshield after Sol 61 Drive
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rocky path lying due east of the rover. Boulders as large as 1.6 feet dot the landscape here near Bonneville Crater. The east hills, over 1.3 miles away, can be seen to the far right.
PIA05519:
Some Rocky Road Please
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Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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This image shows a zoomed-in views of the rock dubbed 'Humphrey' following its successful grinding with NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's rock abrasion tool.
PIA05522:
Focus on "Humphrey" Animation Icon
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Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT)
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-10 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This 360-degree navigation camera mosaic was taken by Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on March 9, 2004, after a drive that brought the rover to less than 20 meters (66 feet) from the rim of the crater nicknamed 'Bonneville.'
PIA05524:
A Glimpse of What's to Come
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