These six images from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity show the two moons of Mars moments before (left three) and after (right three) the larger moon, Phobos, occulted Deimos on Aug. 1, 2013. On each side, the top image is earlier in time than the ones beneath it. (Image credit: NASA...
Zhurong has been working on the red planet for 54 Martian days and has traveled more than 300 meters. Since it drove onto Mars, the rover has been traveling south and conducting detections. Its navigation camera has captured the images of the landform along the way. During ...
This image is one of the very first sent home from Curiosity, showing the rover's own shadow on the Martian surface. NASA says that the clear dust cover is still on the camera, hence the dust seen around the edge of the fish-eye image. The photo was taken by one of the rover's f...
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While Sojourner strolled on the surface, Pathfinder was on a mission of its own. It relayed information from the rover to Earth and also took pictures of the Martian sky and surroundings. On Sol 24, Pathfinder captured a sunset showing a blue color near the sun. The blue is caused by ...
It has traveled over 1,064 meters by the latest record, sending back gigabytes of raw data. In addition, the rover has taken pictures of the Martian landscape and of itself. It has even beckoned to the 2022 Winter Games in one of its widely popular selfies sent back ov...
In 2012, the U.S. Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) descended to the surface of Mars. The rover, nicknamed Curiosity, is roughly the size of an automobile and is one of the largest rovers to reach the Martian surface. The rover's primary goal is to examine the rocks and soils around its...
"It's really easy to pick out rocks or other things that look like something else in pictures like this,"NASA media-relations specialist Guy Webster told CNET. Read more 47 of 62NASA/JPL-Caltech Crab monster creeps on Mars NASA's Mars Curiosity rover snapped a photo that could have blend...
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Noffke compared the rover pictures to images taken at several sites on Earth, including modern sediment surfaces in Mellum Island, Germany; Portsmouth Island, USA; and Carbla Point, Western Australia; as well as older fossils of microbial mats in Bahar Alouane, Tunisia; the Pongola Supergroup in...