” The Murray Buttes region of Mars is reminiscent of parts of the American southwest because of its butte and mesa landscape. In both areas, thick layers of sediment were deposited by wind and water, eventually resulting in a “layer cake” of bedrock that then began to erode away as cond...
The Mars Science Laboratory vehicle has taken its first very big step -- it has landed on the surface of the Red Planet. Like any good tourist, it's sent home some snapshots.
This color-enhanced view shows NASA's Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars. It was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Mars NASA/JPL-Caltech This still from a set of images shows the movement of the front left wheel of...
2012. In the 12 years since, the rover has seen a lot of amazing things on Mars and taken thousands of photos, many unlike anything ever seen before. One such unique photo is the first-ever photo of Earth and the Martian moon Phobos as seen from Mars. ...
A Mars rover has watched some spectacular sunsets recently, with sightings of iridescent, featherlike clouds and sun rays poking through the blanketed sky. TheNASAexplorer isn't taking pictures for the 'Gram to give all its rover pals FOMO, but tostudy clouds at twilight, building on research...
But first Curiosity sends data to Earth, including pictures of the terrain and any science information. On Earth, the Rover Planners take that data, do their planning work, complete the software programing and beam the information back to Mars. Then Curiosity wakes up, downloads the instructions...
First photos from Mars Curiosity landingBy Amina Khan
A. The two pictures were both taken by NASA’s Mars rover. B. The ring systems of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are easy to see. C. There is no doubt that Mars had water on its surface long ago. D. The beautiful rings of Saturn will disappear because of the gravity. ...
“NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of this scene at two times of day. This was the view at 8:30 a.m. local Mars time.” | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This postcard really “caught people’s imagination,” Ellison explains, whic...
In support of the science, Curiosityhas a suite of instruments on boardto better examine the environment. This includes: Cameras that can take pictures of the landscape or of minerals close-up: Mast Camera (Mastcam), Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) and Mars Descent Imager (MARDI). ...