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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this set of images before and after it drilled a rock on Saturday, April 6, 2019.
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Curiosity's First Clay Unit Drill Hole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-02-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This panorama from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover was taken on Dec. 19, 2018 (Sol 2265).
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Curiosity's 360 Panorama of Rock Hall
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-08-05 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This 360-degree panorama of a location called 'Teal Ridge' was captured on Mars by the Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on NASA's Curiosity rover on June 18, 2019.
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Curiosity Surveys Teal Ridge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-08-05 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This mosaic of images shows a boulder-sized rock called 'Strathdon,' which is made up of many complex layers. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took these images using its Mast Camera, or Mastcam.
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Mastcam Views Strathdon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-03-04 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity rover captured its highest-resolution panorama of the Martian surface between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 2019.
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Curiosity's 1.8-Billion-Pixel Panorama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-15 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Two images of the night sky were combined to show Earth and Venus as seen by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on June 5, 2020. The planets appear as pinpoints of light owing to a combination of distance and dust in the air.
PIA23899:
Curiosity Rover Finds Earth and Venus in the Martian Sky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Stitched together from 116 images, this view captured by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the path it will take in the summer of 2020 as it drives toward the next region it will be investigating, the sulfate-bearing unit.
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Curiosity's Path to the Sulfate-Bearing Unit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Stitched together from 28 images, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view from Greenheugh Pediment on April 9, 2020.
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Curiosity's View From the Top of the Greenheugh Pediment
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The goosebump-like features in the center of this image were formed by water billions of years ago. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovered them as it crested the slope of Greenheugh Pediment on Feb. 24, 2020.
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Curiosity Finds Nodules near the Top of Pediment Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its telephoto lens to capture Mount Sharp in the morning illumination on Oct. 13, 2019.
PIA23898:
A Dramatic View of Mars' Mount Sharp
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This wide panorama was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Dec. 19, 2019. On the righthand foreground is Western Butte. The ridge with a crusty cap in the background is the Greenheugh pediment.
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Curiosity Captures a Spaghetti Western Landscape on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-12 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This panorama, made up of 122 individual images stitched together, was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on November 18, 2020, the 2,946th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Curiosity's View of Benches on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-30 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam instrument to take the 32 individual images that make up this panorama of the outcrop nicknamed Mont Mercou. It took a second panorama to create a stereoscopic view. Both panoramas were taken on March 4, 2021.
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Curiosity's 3D View of Mont Mercou
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-30 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam instrument to take the 126 individual images that make up this 360-degree panorama on March 3, 2021, the 3,048th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Curiosity's 360-Degree View Approaching Mont Mercou
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-30 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The panorama is made up of 60 images from the MAHLI camera on the rover's robotic arm along with 11 images from the Mastcam on the mast of the rover.
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Curiosity's Selfie at Mont Mercou
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-05 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam to take an image of this mountain, nicknamed Rafael Navarro Mountain after the astrobiologist Rafael Navarro-González, who worked on the mission until he passed away January 26, 2021.
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Rafael Navarro Mountain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-10 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree panorama while atop Mont Mercou, a rock formation that offered a view into Gale Crater below. The panorama is stitched together from 132 individual images taken on April 15, 2021.
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Curiosity's 360-degree View Atop Mont Mercou
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-28 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021. The image is made up of 21 individual images stitched together and color corrected so that the scene appears as it would to the human eye.
PIA24622:
Curiosity Spots Clouds Over Mont Mercou
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-28 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This GIF shows clouds drifting over Mount Sharp on Mars, as viewed by NASA's Curiosity rover on March 19, 2021. Each frame of the scene was stitched together from six individual images.
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Curiosity GIF Shows Drifting Clouds Over Mars' Mount Sharp
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-28 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted these iridescent, or mother of pearl, clouds on March 5, 2021. Seen here are five frames stitched together from a much wider panorama taken by the rover's Mast Camera, or Mastcam.
PIA24662:
Curiosity Spots Iridescent Mother of Pearl Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-08-17 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this 360-degree view on July 3, 2021. The panorama is made up of 129 individual images that were sent to Earth, after which they are stitched together.
PIA24643:
Curiosity Looks Uphill Past Rafael Navarro Mountain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-01-25 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this scene of a drill hole named Edinburgh. The images used to create the scene were taken on March 22 and 23, 2020.
PIA25046:
Curiosity Mastcam's View of Edinburgh
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-07 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to survey these wind-sharpened rocks, called ventifacts, on March 15, 2022. The team has informally described these patches of ventifacts as gator-back rocks because of their scaly appearance.
PIA25175:
Curiosity Finds Gator-Back Rocks on Greenheugh
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-07 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to take this 360-degree panorama on March 23, 2022. The team has informally described the wind-sharpened rocks seen here as gator-back rocks because of their scaly appearance.
PIA25176:
Curiosity's 360-Degree Panorama of Gator-Back Rocks on Greenheugh
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-05-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this mound of rock nicknamed East Cliffs on May 7, 2022, the 3,466th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Door-Shaped Fracture Spotted by Curiosity at East Cliffs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-15 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted these finger-like rocks with its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on May 15, 2022.
PIA25362:
Curiosity Spots Finger-Like Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-22 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this image of the sulfate-bearing region and upper Mount Sharp in a dust haze on May 26, 2022.
PIA25365:
Curiosity's View of Haze During Dust Season
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-22 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama near a location nicknamed Sierra Maigualida on May 22, 2022. The panorama is made up of 133 individual images captured by Curiosity's Mast Camera, or Mastcam.
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Curiosity's 360-degree Panorama Near Sierra Maigualida
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-22 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a sulfate-bearing region using its Mastcam on May 2, 2022. Dark boulders seen near the center are thought to have formed from sand deposited in ancient streams or ponds.
PIA25367:
Curiosity's View of Sulfate-Bearing Region and Streambed Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-22 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of layered, flaky rocks believed to have formed in an ancient streambed or small pond. The six images that make up this mosaic were captured using Curiosity's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on June 2, 2022.
PIA25368:
Curiosity's Mastcam Views Flaky, Streambed Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-06-22 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured evidence of layers that built up as windblown sand both accumulated and was scoured away at a location nicknamed Las Claritas. This image was captured using Curiosity's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on May 19, 2022.
PIA25369:
Curiosity's Mastcam Views Layers at Las Claritas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-08-05 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree panorama at a drill site nicknamed Avanavero on June 20, 2022. In its decade on the Red Planet, the rover has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect 41 rock and soil samples for analysis.
PIA25407:
Curiosity's 360-Degree Panorama of Avanavero Drill Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama while driving toward the center of this scene, an area that forms the narrow Paraitepuy Pass on Aug. 14, 2022.
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Curiosity's View of Paraitepuy Pass
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama of a hill nicknamed Bolívar and adjacent sand ridges on Aug. 23, the 3,572nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Curiosity's View of Sand Ridges and Bolívar
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this detail shot of the sandy foreground, a hill nicknamed Orinoco within the sulfate-bearing unit, and upper Mount Sharp in the distance.
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Curiosity's Close-Up of Rocks in Paraitepuy Pass
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-10-19 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Curiosity used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this image of its 36th successful drill hole on Mount Sharp, at a rock called Canaima. The pulverized rock sample was acquired on Oct. 3, 2022.
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Curiosity's 36th Drill Hole at Canaima
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-02 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this iron-nickel meteorite nicknamed Cacao on Jan, 28, 2023. This meteorite is estimated to be about 1 foot (30 centimeters) across.
PIA25737:
Curiosity Finds a Meteorite, 'Cacao'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity used its Mastcam to capture this 360-degree panorama of Marker Band Valley on Dec. 16, 2022. Rippled rock textures found in this area are the clearest evidence the rover has seen of water and waves from Mars' ancient past.
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Curiosity's 360-Degree View of Marker Band Valley
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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At the bottom of this valley, called Gediz Vallis, is a mound of boulders and debris that are believed to have been swept there by wet landslides billions of years ago. The rover team hopes to get a closer look at this evidence for flowing water.
PIA25733:
Curiosity Views Gediz Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-02-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity rover captured this image of rhythmic rock layers with a repetitive pattern in their spacing and thickness. The pattern might have been caused by weather or climate cycles, such as dust storms happening at regular intervals.
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Curiosity Views Rhythmic Rock Layers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured these sun rays shining through clouds at sunset on Feb. 2, 2023. It was the first time that sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays, have been viewed so clearly on Mars.
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Curiosity Views First Martian 'Sun Rays'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-03-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This feather-shaped iridescent cloud was captured just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023. Studying the colors in iridescent clouds tells scientists something about particle size within the clouds and how they grow over time.
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Curiosity Views Feather-Shaped Iridescent Cloud
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity used its Mastcam to capture this impact crater in a location nicknamed Jau on July 25, 2023. This was one of dozens of impact craters Curiosity stopped by after completing the most difficult climb of the mission.
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Curiosity Views a Crater at 'Jau'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity left these tracks after trying multiple times to crest a slippery slope. This mosaic, made up of seven images that were stitched together after being sent back to Earth, was captured by the rover's Mastcam on June 13, 2023.
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Curiosity's Climb Attempt Leaves Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity looks back down at Marker Band Valley, where the rover's tracks are visible in the distance, after climbing a steep slope. This mosaic was captured by the rover's Mastcam on June 21, 2023.
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Curiosity's View Back Toward 'Marker Band Valley'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity captured this 360-degree view of a challenging Martian slope that had a steep incline, slippery sand, and wheel-size boulders. This mosaic is composed of 145 images taken by the rover's Mastcam June 27, 2023.
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Curiosity's View up a Challenging Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover attempted to climb a slope near the center of this image, but struggled due to the incline, slippery sand, and wheel-size rocks.
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Curiosity's Attempted Climb up a Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-08-09 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This panorama captured by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a location nicknamed Pontours where scientists spotted preserved, ancient mud cracks believed to have formed during long cycles of wet and dry conditions over many years.
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Curiosity Views Mud Cracks in the Clay-Sulfate Transition Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-09-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity captured this 360-degree panorama while parked below Gediz Vallis Ridge, a formation that preserves a record of one of the last wet periods seen on this part of Mars.
PIA26019:
Curiosity Views Gediz Vallis Ridge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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On Sept. 19, 2023, the Mastcam's filter wheel became stuck between the green and clear filter positions.
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Curiosity Mastcam Filter Wheel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2023-11-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the drill on the end of its robotic arm to collect a sample from a rock nicknamed Sequoia on Oct. 17, 2023. The rover's Mastcam captured this image.
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Curiosity Views 'Sequoia' Using Its Mastcam
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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These yellow crystals were revealed after NASA's Curiosity happened to drive over a rock and crack it open on May 30. Using an instrument on the rover's arm, scientists later determined these crystals are elemental sulfur.
PIA26309:
Curiosity Views Sulfur Crystals Within a Crushed Rock
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of Gediz Vallis channel on March 31. This area was likely formed by large floods of water and debris that piled jumbles of rocks into mounds within the channel.
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Curiosity Views Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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While exploring Gediz Vallis channel in May, NASA's Curiosity captured this image (Figure C) of rocks that show a pale color near their edges. When groundwater leaks into rocks along fractures, it causes chemical reactions that change the color.
PIA26366:
Curiosity Views Rocks With 'Halos'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to take this 360-degree panorama from within Gediz Vallis channel on June 19, 2024.
PIA26363:
Curiosity Takes a 360-Degree View of Gediz Vallis Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-07-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this detailed view of jagged rocks and sediment exposed along the side of a mound called Fascination Turret.
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Curiosity's Detailed View of 'Fascination Turret'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-09-13 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of Earth setting while Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, is rising.
PIA26362:
Curiosity Views Earth Setting, Phobos Rising
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Curiosity captured this panorama using its Mastcam while heading west away from Gediz Vallis channel on Nov. 2, 2024. The Mars rover's tracks across the rocky terrain are visible at right.
PIA26471:
Curiosity Makes Rover Tracks While Heading West
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this last look at a field of bright white sulfur stones on Oct. 11, 2024, before leaving Gediz Vallis channel.
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Curiosity Takes a Last Look at Sulfur Stones
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-11-18 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama within Gediz Vallis channel on Sept. 21 and 22, 2024.
PIA26410:
Curiosity's View Within Gediz Vallis Channel
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a geological region called the Yardang Unit using its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on Nov. 2, 2024.
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Curiosity Views the Yardang Unit
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its right Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this panorama on Nov. 26, 2024, the 4,375th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Curiosity Surveys 'Texoli'
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured these drifting noctilucent, or twilight, clouds in a 16-minute recording on Jan. 17, 2025.
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Curiosity Views Twilight Clouds
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover sees its tracks receding into the distance at a site nicknamed Ubajara on April 30, 2023.
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Curiosity Surveys the 'Ubajara' Sampling Site on Mars
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This panorama, made up of 122 individual images stitched together, was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on November 18, 2020, the 2,946th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Curiosity on the Road to Boxwork Formations
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view looking back down at the floor of Gale Crater from its location on Mount Sharp on Feb. 7, 2025.
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Curiosity Looks Downslope From the Sulfate Unit
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this scene while looking out across a region filled with boxwork patterns, low ridges that scientists think could have been formed by groundwater billions of years ago.
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Curiosity Views Boxwork Patterns at a Distance
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover viewed this low ridge, which looks a bit like a crumbling curb, on May 16. Scientists think the hardened edges of such ridges may have been formed by ancient groundwater.
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Curiosity Views a Fractured Boxwork Pattern Up Close
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree view after arriving at a region crisscrossed by hardened low ridges called boxwork patterns.
PIA26559:
Curiosity's First 360-Degree View of Boxwork Patterns
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This set of images compares rocks seen by NASA's Opportunity rover and Curiosity rover at two different parts of Mars.
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Two Different Aqueous Environments
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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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This image shows two perspectives of the 59th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The image on the left was captured by the Mastcam-Z on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover; the black-and-white image on the right was taken by Ingenuity.
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Two Views of Ingenuity's 59th Flight
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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.
PIA24547:
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.
PIA24581:
Ingenuity's Blades Are Released
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The Ingenuity helicopter's solar panel charges six lithium-ion batteries inside the helicopter. The small amount of dust on the panel has no adverse effects on the helicopter's power.
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Mars Helicopter's Solar Array as Seen by Perseverance's Mastcam-Z
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The Ingenuity helicopter's carbon fiber blades can be seen spinning up to in this video taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on April 8, 2021, the 48th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA24549:
Mastcam-Z Captures Ingenuity's Blades Spinning
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This image from NASA's Perseverance rover shows the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter right after it successfully completed a high-speed spin-up test. It was captured by the Mastcam-Z instrument on Perseverance on April 16, 2021.
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Ingenuity Right After a Spin
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This image was taken after the first flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, and the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. It was captured by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, on April 19, 2021.
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Ingenuity's First Flight Recorded by Mastcam-Z
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovers over the Martian surface as viewed by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard the Perseverance Mars rover on April 19, 2021. The helicopter climbed to an altitude of 10 feet (3 meters), hovering for 30 seconds.
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity Hovering
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In this footage captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard the Perseverance Mars rover on April 19, 2021, the Ingenuity helicopter lifts of from Mars' surface, hovers for 30 seconds, then touches back down.
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity's First Full Flight
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The Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shot video of Ingenuity helicopter's flight, presented here in side-by-side processed versions that have both been enhanced to show a dust plume swirling during takeoff and again on landing.
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Enhanced Video Shows Dust During Ingenuity's Flight
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter takes off and lands in this video captured on April 19, 2021, by Mastcam-Z, an imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. This video features only the moments of takeoff and the landing.
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Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity Taking Off and Landing
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovers over Jezero Crater during its second experimental flight test on April 22, 2021. The imagery was captured by the Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z imager.
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Video of Second Flight
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's was captured after landing on May 7, 2021, by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard the agency's Perseverance rover. This was the helicopter's fifth flight, and the first time the helicopter flew to a new landing site.
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Mastcam-Z Views Ingenuity After Fifth Flight
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of Santa Cruz, a hill within Jezero Crater, on April 29, 2021.
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Mastcam-Z Views Santa Cruz on Mars
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NASA's Perseverance rover viewed these rocks with its Mastcam-Z imager on April 27, 2021.
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Images Intriguing Rocks
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After the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance rover captured Ingenuity's third flight on April 25, the frames of the video that was stitched together were then reprojected to optimize viewing in an anaglyph.
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Ingenuity Flies in 3D
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter lands with a soft bounce after its fifth flight on May 7, 2021. The images in this GIF were captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance rover.
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Mastcam-Z GIF Show Ingenuity's Fifth Landing
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This image of Ingenuity was taken on May 23, 2021, the day after its sixth flight, by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the Perseverance Mars rover.
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Ingenuity at Third Airfield
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z imaging system captured this 360-degree panorama at Van Zyl Overlook, where the rover parked during Ingenuity helicopter's first flights.
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Mastcam-Z's 360-degree View of Van Zyl Overlook
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen here at the end of its fourth flight, on April 30, 2021. This enhanced video shows the dust kicked up by the helicopter's spinning rotors.
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Ingenuity Kicks Up Dust Cloud on Fourth Flight
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This composite image of Jezero Crater's Delta Scarp was generated using data from the Perseverance rover's Remote Microscopic Imager and Mastcam-Z camera.
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Two Views of Delta Scarp
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is seen here in 3D using images taken June 6, 2021, by the left and right Mastcam-Z cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24670:
Ingenuity Helicopter in 3D
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