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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This diagram, superimposed on a photo of Martian landscape, illustrates a concept called 'adaptive caching,' which is in development for NASA's 2020 Mars rover mission.
PIA19150:
Adaptive Caching Concept
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-06-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This 2015 diagram shows components of the investigations payload for NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission.
PIA19672:
Science Instruments on NASA's Mars 2020 Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-05-23 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover on the surface of Mars. The mission takes the next step by not only seeking signs of habitable conditions on Mars in the ancient past, but also searching for signs of past microbial life itself.
PIA21635:
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #1
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying a Mars rock outrcrop. Mars 2020 will use powerful instruments to investigate rocks on Mars down to the microscopic scale of variations in texture and composition.
PIA22105:
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying rocks with its robotic arm. Mars 2020 will use powerful instruments to investigate rocks on Mars down to the microscopic scale of variations in texture and composition.
PIA22106:
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #3
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This artist's concept depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover exploring Mars. Mars 2020 will use powerful instruments to investigate rocks on Mars down to the microscopic scale of variations in texture and composition.
PIA22107:
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #4
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This artist's concept shows a close-up of NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying an outcrop. Mars 2020 will use powerful instruments to investigate rocks on Mars down to the microscopic scale of variations in texture and composition.
PIA22108:
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #5
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying its surroundings. Mars 2020 will use powerful instruments to investigate rocks on Mars down to the microscopic scale of variations in texture and composition.
PIA22109:
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #6
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Mars 2020 rover looks at the horizon in this artist's concept. Mars 2020 will use powerful instruments to investigate rocks on Mars down to the microscopic scale of variations in texture and composition.
PIA22110:
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #7
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This artist's concept shows a close-up of NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying an outcrop. Mars 2020 will use powerful instruments to investigate rocks on Mars down to the microscopic scale of variations in texture and composition.
PIA22111:
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #1 (Updated)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-08-23 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Scientists with NASA's Mars 2020 mission and the European-Russian ExoMars mission traveled to the Australian Outback to hone their research techniques before their missions launch to the Red Planet in the summer of 2020.
PIA23275:
Clues for Mars in the Australian Outback
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-18 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The actor Brad Pitt (right) shows off his 'boarding pass' for Mars with Jennifer Trosper (left), the Mars 2020 project systems engineer, at JPL on Sept. 6, 2019.
PIA23279:
Send Your Name to Mars With Brad Pitt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-23 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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On Sept. 23, 2019, the U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, presented a framed letter to the mayor of the Balkan municipality of Jezero.
PIA23463:
NASA Mars Mission Connects with Bosnian and Herzegovinian Town
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-09-23 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, presents a framed letter to the mayor of the Balkan municipality of Jezero.
PIA23464:
Jezero Celebrates Jezero
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-12-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This map of the Red Planet shows Jezero Crater, where NASA's Mars 2020 rover is scheduled to land in February 2021.
PIA23518:
Map of NASA's Mars Landing Sites
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This illustration depicts the some of the major milestones NASA's Perseverance rover will go through during its seven-minute descent to the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA24265:
Perseverance's Stages of Descent (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image is an illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover exploring inside Mars' Jezero Crater.
PIA24309:
Exploring Majestic Jezero Crater (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-27 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This graphic shows the location of four cameras and a microphone on the spacecraft for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission. These cameras will capture the entry, descent, and landing phase of the mission.
PIA24378:
Mars 2020 Camera and Microphone Location (Illustration)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-16 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This graphic shows the B-Plane for NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission as of February 15, 2021.
PIA24296:
Mars 2020's B-Plane
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is equipped with two microphones that will capture the sounds during entry, descent, and landing, and sounds on the Martian surface.
PIA24166:
Mars 2020 Microphone Testing at JPL
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will rely on data depicted in this Hazard Map to help guide it to a safe landing.
PIA24167:
Jezero's Hazard Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-18 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Members of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission celebrate on Feb. 18, 2021, after learning the spacecraft has touched down on Mars. They are in the Entry, Descent and Landing War Room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA24267:
Perseverance Rover's Team in the EDL War Room
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-18 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover was able to use its new Terrain-Relative Navigation technology to avoid hazards and find a safe place to land in Jezero Crater on Mars.
PIA23970:
Avoiding Hazards at Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineer Mallory Lefland experienced the tension and relief shared by the team on Mars 2020 Perseverance landing day, on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA23722:
Excitement and Suspense on Landing Day
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Inside a mission support area at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars 2020 Perseverance team members displayed their joy as the spacecraft successfully touched down on the Martian surface.
PIA23723:
Cheering for Perseverance Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Before NASA's Mars Perseverance rover landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, the entry, descent, and landing team posed at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with individual bags of traditional lucky peanuts.
PIA23724:
Mars Perseverance Team, Pre-landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This is a high-resolution still image, part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot.
PIA24428:
High-Resolution Still Image of Perseverance's Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Members of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission were jubilant on Feb. 18, 2021, after the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars.
PIA23725:
Cheers for a Successful Mars Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Inside Mission Control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars 2020 Perseverance team members eagerly watched and waited before the rover safely landed on the Martian surface.
PIA23726:
Great Anticipation as Perseverance Lands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-23 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This annotated image was taken by a parachute-up-look camera aboard the protective back shell of NASA's Perseverance rover during its descent toward Mars' Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021.
PIA24431:
Mars Decoder Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This set of images shows parts of the robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance rover flexing and turning during its first checkout after landing on Mars.
PIA24338:
Flexing Perseverance's Robotic Arm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This simulation shows the motions the robotic arm on NASA's Perseverance rover carried out during its first two-hour checkout on Mars. This simulation does not run in real-time.
PIA24332:
Simulation of Perseverance Arm Movement
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory driving the agency's Perseverance rover use visualization software to plan how the rover moves around on Mars. This clip from their visualization shows the rover's first drive on March 4, 2021.
PIA24481:
Perseverance Drive Visualization
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-23 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The location where NASA's Perseverance rover will observe Ingenuity's attempt at powered controlled flight at Mars is called Van Zyl Overlook.
PIA24435:
Van Zyl Overlook
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used the WATSON camera on the end of its robotic arm to conduct a focus test on May 9, 2021, the 78th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA24641:
WATSON Takes a Closer Look
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-06-25 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This computer simulation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover taking its first selfie, on April 6, 2021. The point of view of the rover's WATSON camera is included to show how each of the images were taken before being stitched together into the selfie.
PIA24669:
Computer Simulation of Rover Selfie
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-01 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This computer simulation shows NASA's Perseverance Mars rover as it carried out its first drive using its auto-navigation feature, which allows it to avoid rocks and other hazards without input from engineers back on Earth.
PIA24723:
Computer Simulation of Perseverance's First Autonav Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-01 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Vandi Verma, an engineer who now works with NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, is seen here working as a driver for the Curiosity rover. The special 3D glasses she's wearing are still used by rover drivers to easily detect changes in terrain.
PIA24724:
3D Glasses Used for Rover Driving
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-07-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This series of images shows NASA's Perseverance rover inspecting and sealing a witness sample tube on June 21, 2021, as it prepares to collect its first sample of Martian rock and sediment.
PIA24751:
Witness Tube in Perseverance Sample Caching System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image taken by NASA's Perseverance rover on August 6, 2021, shows that sample collection tube No. 233 is empty. It is one of the pieces of data showing that the rover did not collect any Martian rock during its first attempt to core a sample.
PIA24742:
Perseverance Sample Tube No. 233
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-16 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This annotated image depicts the ground tracks of NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars Helicopter since arriving on Mars on February 18, 2021.
PIA24797:
Ground Tracks of NASA's Perseverance and Ingenuity
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance's first cored-rock sample of Mars rock is seen inside its titanium container tube in this image taken by the rover's Sampling and Caching System Camera (known as CacheCam).
PIA24806:
Perseverance's First Cored Mars Rock in Sample Tube
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This sealed titanium sample tube contains Perseverance's first cored sample of Mars rock. The rover's Sampling and Caching System Camera (known as CacheCam) captured this image.
PIA24807:
Sealing in Perseverance's First Sample
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Sample tube number 266 was used to collect the first sample of Martian rock by NASA's Perseverance rover. The laser-etched serial number helps science team identify the tubes and their contents.
PIA24808:
Perseverance Sample Tube 266
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-09-10 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image shows a core collected from a basaltic rock during a test of the Perseverance rover's Sampling and Caching System at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
PIA24809:
Cored-Rock Sample From Perseverance Test
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Six facsimile sample tubes hang on the sample tube board in this image taken in the offices of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA25026:
Perseverance Sample Tubes: Six Mars Samples and Counting
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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These annotated images show two views of the Séítah geologic unit of Mars' Jezero Crater.
PIA25024:
Diversity of Séítah Minerals
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-03-18 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looks back at its wheel tracks on March 17, 2022, the 381st Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25171:
Perseverance Looks Back at Wheel Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Video taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shows some of the terrain the rover had to negotiate during its drive to the delta at Jezero Crater in April 2022.
PIA25215:
AutoNav Drives Perseverance Forward
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-31 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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On May 18, 2022, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used an artificial intelligence software called AEGIS to select and target the rock seen in close-up here.
PIA25289:
Perseverance's SuperCam Uses AEGIS For the First Time
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-11-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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These images show changes in the dust accumulation over the course of four days on the rim of the collection tube containing Perseverance's 14th sample. The images were acquired by the rover's Sampling and Caching System Camera, or CacheCam.
PIA25337:
CacheCam Image of Perseverance's 14th Sample of Martian Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this image of regolith – broken rock and dust – on Dec. 2, 2022. This regolith will be considered for deposit on the Martian surface as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign.
PIA25588:
Perseverance's CacheCam Views a Regolith Sample
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This map shows the planned route NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will take across the top of Jezero Crater's delta in 2023. The rover's planned route is in black while the ground it already covered is in white.
PIA25673:
Map of Perseverance's Delta Top Campaign
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Shown here is a representation of the 21 sample tubes that have been sealed to date by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Red dots indicate the locations where each sample was collected.
PIA25674:
A Map of Perseverance's Samples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-15 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This map shows where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will be dropping 10 samples that a future mission could pick up. The orange circles represent areas where a Sample Recovery Helicopter could safely operate to acquire the sample tubes.
PIA25678:
A Map of Perseverance's Depot Samples
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-12-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover deposited the first of several samples onto the Martian surface on Dec. 21, 2022, the 653rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA25652:
Perseverance Deposits Its First Sample on the Martian Surface
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-01-30 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This map shows where NASA's Perseverance Mars rover dropped each of its 10 samples so that a future mission could pick them up. The sample depot was completed Jan. 28, 2023.
PIA25682:
Perseverance's Three Forks Sample Depot Map
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-06-08 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This map shows various quadrant themes in the vicinity of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which is currently in the Rocky Mountain quadrant. The rover team chose quadrant themes related to various national parks across Earth.
PIA25913:
Perseverance's Quadrant Themes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-07-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance captured this image of a sample it cored on June 12. The core shows distinctly colored areas that are individual minerals transported by a river that once flowed into Jezero Crater.
PIA25962:
Perseverance's 'Otis Peak' Sample Reveals Colors of Conglomerate
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-21 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Made with data recorded by NASA's Perseverance during a July 15, 2023 autonomous drive, this animation shows how the rover used AutoNav to maneuver around the 14-inch (35-centimeter) rock at center-left.
PIA26073:
Perseverance AutoNav Avoids a Boulder
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-12-12 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This animated artist's concept depicts water breaking through the rim of Mars' Jezero Crater, which NASA's Perseverance rover is now exploring. Water entered the crater billions of years ago, forming a lake before the Red Planet dried up.
PIA26207:
Water Enters Jezero Crater Billions of Years Ago (Artist's Concept)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-04-03 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Perseverance's CacheCam captured this image of the rover's latest cored sample – taken from an intriguing rock called Bunsen Peak – on March 12, 2024.
PIA26313:
Perseverance's 'Bunsen Peak' Sample
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-07-09 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Mars 2020 rover would have capabilities for nested-scale observations and localized composition identification down to microscopic scale.
PIA17276:
The Importance of Nested Scales of Observations, Fine Scales
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This is one of the first images NASA's Perseverance rover sent back after touching down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. The view, from one of Perseverance's Hazard Cameras, is partially obscured by a dust cover. The rover's shadow can be seen at left.
PIA24268:
Perseverance Rover's First Image from Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This high-resolution image shows one of the six wheels aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, which landed on Feb.18, 2021. The image was taken by one of Perseverance's color Hazard Cameras (Hazcams).
PIA24429:
Perseverance's Big Wheel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This is the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside NASA's Perseverance Mars rover after its landing on Feb. 18, 2021.
PIA24430:
Perseverance's First Full-Color Look at Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-24 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image from one of the rear Hazcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, shows a smoke plume from the crashed descent stage that lowered the rover to the Martian surface.
PIA24425:
Black and White: Smoke Plume from Perseverance's Descent Stage
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image was captured while NASA's Perseverance rover drove on Mars for the first time on March 4, 2021. One of Perseverance's Hazcams captured this image as the rover completed a short traverse and turn from its landing site in Jezero Crater.
PIA24482:
Perseverance Hazcam First Drive
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter can be seen on Mars as viewed by the Perseverance rover's rear Hazard Camera on April 4, 2021, the 44th Martian day, or sol of the mission.
PIA24541:
Ingenuity Deployed on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-30 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (above center to the right) is viewed by one of the hazard cameras aboard the Perseverance rover during the helicopter's fourth flight on April 30, 2021.
PIA24642:
Perseverance's Hazard Cameras View Ingenuity's Fourth Flight
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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.
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Perseverance's Arm Over Paver Rocks
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This image taken by one of the hazard cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on August 6, 2021, shows the hole drilled in what the rover's science team calls a paver rock in preparation for the mission's first attempt to collect a sample from Mars.
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Perseverance's Drill Hole for First Sample Collection Attempt
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will abrade the rock at the center of this image, allowing scientists and engineers to assess whether it would hold up to the rover's more powerful sampling drill.
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Perseverance Team Selects a New Rock to Abrade
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On Aug. 27, 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover captured this image of the science-instrument-laden turret at the end of its robotic arm getting close to the rock nicknamed Rochette.
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Perseverance Gets to Know Rochette
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This image shows the cored-rock sample remaining in the sample tube after the drill bit was extracted from Perseverance's bit carousel on January 7, 2022.
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Perseverance's Bit Carousel
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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.
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Before and After Perseverance Sample Tube Shake
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This image of the sedimentary rocks of Enchanted Lake was taken by one of the Perseverance rover's Hazard Avoidance Cameras (Hazcams) near the base of Jezero Crater's delta on April 30, 2022.
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Enchanted View of Jezero Rocks
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This image of Yori Pass was taken by a Hazcam imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on November 5, 2022.
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Jezero Crater's Yori Pass
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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.
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Collects Regolith
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of Bettys Rock using one of its front hazard cameras on June 20, 2022, the 474th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Perseverance Views Bettys Rock
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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.
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Front Left Hazcam – Two Year Movie
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This image shows the rocky outcrop the Perseverance science team calls Berea after the NASA Mars rover extracted a rock core and abraded a circular patch. The image was taken by one of the rover's front hazard cameras on March 30, 2023.
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Perseverance Samples 'Berea'
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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.
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Perseverance Cores 'Berea'
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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.
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Perseverance Cores 'Bunsen Peak'
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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.
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Multiple Views of Perseverance's Wheels Wiggling
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Two holes are visible in the rock, nicknamed Rochette, from which NASA's Perseverance rover obtained its first core samples.
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Rochette After Perseverance Sampling
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NASA's Perseverance rover took this image of the Martian rock nicknamed Rochette on Aug. 27, 2021, shortly after it abraded a circular patch known as Bellegarde.
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Abrasion Patch on Rochette
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This image was taken by the Lander Vision System Camera (LCAM) of NASA's Perseverance rover. The camera served as part of the Terrain-Relative Navigation system, a kind of autopilot that helps the spacecraft avoid hazards.
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Perseverance's LCAM Views the Heat Shield During Descent
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This image was taken by the Lander Vision System Camera (LCAM) of NASA's Perseverance rover. The camera served as part of the Terrain-Relative Navigation system, a kind of autopilot that helps the spacecraft avoid hazards as it lands.
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LCAM Views the Heat Shield After Being Released from Mars 2020 Spacecraft
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This set of images shows part of the deployment of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) wind sensors on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, taken by the rover's Navigation Cameras on Feb. 28, 2021.
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Perseverance's Weather Sensors Deployed
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Observations at large scales, such as panoramas of Martian landscapes, help researchers identify smaller-scale features of special interest for examination in more detail.
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The Importance of Nested Scales of Observations, Large Scales
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Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance rover, imaged its calibration targets for the first time on Feb. 20, 2021. The targets are used as reference markers so scientists can adjust the colors and settings on the cameras.
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Mastcam-Z Looks at Its Calibration Target
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This is the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The panorama was stitched together from 142 individual images taken on February 21, 2021.
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Mastcam-Z's First 360-Degree Panorama
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Stitched together from 79 individual images, this Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z right-eye 110-mm zoom mosaic is from the camera's first high-resolution panorama imaging sequence.
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z First High-Resolution Panorama
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This GIF shows the order in which the 142 images that makeup the Mastcam-Z's first 360-degree panorama were taken. Mastcam-Z is a pair of zoomable cameras on the mast, or head, of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
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GIF: How Mastcam-Z's 360-Degree Panorama Was Taken
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This image shows the 142 images that make up Mastcam-Z's first 360-degree panorama. Mastcam-Z is a pair of zoomable cameras on the mast, or head, of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
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Still: How Mastcam-Z's 360-Degree Panorama Was Taken
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Taken Feb. 22, 2021, this image from the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA's Perseverance rover shows a target for analysis by the rover's SuperCam instrument.
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A Target for Perseverance's SuperCam
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From its landing site, Octavia E. Butler Landing, NASA's Perseverance rover can see a remnant of a fan-shaped deposit of sediments known as a delta (the raised area of dark brown rock in the middle ground) with its Mastcam-Z instrument.
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Perseverance View of the Delta in Jezero Crater
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter is seen here in a close-up taken by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard the Perseverance rover. This image was taken on April 5, the 45th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Mastcam-Z Gives Ingenuity a Close-up
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter unlocked its blades, allowing them to spin freely, on April 7, 2021. This image was captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on the following sol, April 8, 2021.
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Ingenuity's Blades Are Released
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