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...
Curiosity rover captures rare iridescent noctilucent clouds on Mars. (photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) In January 2023,NASA's Curiosity rover captured images of noctilucent clouds during a Martian sunset, including a rare category of iridescent bright noctilucent clouds that appear feather-shaped...
New images captured by NASA'sCuriosity rovershow colorful clouds in the sky over Mars. The images were captured by the rover's Mastcam, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory compared to the rover's eyes. The clouds were spotted on Jan. 17, and the photos were taken over the course of...
Mars Rover Curiosity Zeroes In on Landing SiteJeffrey Marlow
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.
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...
The Curiosity Rover shared the image to itsTwitter pageand it was taken as part of the rover’s twilight cloud survey. The image was captured as a panorama, stitched together from 28 images and sent back to Earth. NASA says that the picture has been processed to emphasize the highlights...
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 ...
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...
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