This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5, 2012. It was taken with a "fisheye" wide-angle lens on the left "eye" of a stereo pair of Hazard-Avoidance cameras on the left-rear side of the rover. Mars Eric Schultz...
NASA's Curiosity rover continues to explore Mars, taking incredible photos as it goes. We take a look at some of its best images here.
Here we celebrate 10 years of Curiosity by taking a look at some of Curiosity's best images of Mars. Related: A brief history of Mars missions NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took this self-portrait on May 11, 2016, at the "Okoruso" drilling site on the "Naukluft Plateau" in the foothil...
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An illustration of the Mars Curiosity rover | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For the new composite image showing Phobos and Earth, Lemmon says the Mastcam sequence started 93 seconds before Phobos passed Earth. “The cameras were aimed at Earth and took five images at...
Two landmark discoveries reveal organic carbon on the red planet, shaping the future hunt for life on Mars.
And with the latest photos to be released by NASA, the Curiosity rover has provided us with a wonderful look at the “Murray Buttes” region, which is in the lower part of Mount Sharp. These images were taken by the Curiosity Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Sept. 8th, and provide some lovely...
separation from the rover and about 2.5 minutes before landing on Mars. The photo was taken by the rover's Mars Descent Imager instrument, aka MARDI, and is one of the first color images that Curiosity sent back -- in low resolution, to allow for a prompt return of the images to Earth...
Curiosity Mars Hand Lens Imager photo produced on Sol 2665, February 4, 2020.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS “ChemCam will collect more data from ‘Ramasaig,’ a dark vein near the rover, and ‘St. Monanas,’ another piece of rock with interesting textures,” Fraeman adds. “The rover...
See amazing photos from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity unveiled during its second week on Mars in August 2012.