NASA Rover Lands on Mars More NASA|JPL-Caltech This is the first image NASA’s Perseverance rover sent back after touching down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. After a seven-month, 300-million-mile journey, a NASA rover on Thursday successfully landed on the red planet, whe...
NASA’sCuriosity roverlanded on Mars this morning with much fanfare here on Earth. The photo above is one of the first photographs snapped by the rover and beamed back to Earth. Captured through a fisheye wide-angle lens, the landscape photo hows a gravel field in the foreground and the ri...
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 ...
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has captured dramatic footage of Phobos, Mars’ potato-shaped moon, crossing the face of the Sun. These observations can help scientists better understand the moon’s orbit and how its gravity pulls on the Martian surface.
The team says they based their findings on images the rover took of sediment that gathered at the end of an ancient river that fed a lake inside the Jezero Crater. The photos, taken during a landing on February 18 and published on Thursday, suggest that billions of years ago, Mars had ...
NASA Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter explore the wilds of Mars +39 More See all photos Hello, Mars Since Sojourner in 1997, NASA has sent a succession of increasingly sophisticated wheeled explorers to Mars. Perseverance is the latest and greatest. In July 2020, it launched on ...
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover captured this image of a black-and-white striped rock using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover’s mast. This image was acquired on Sept. 13, 2024 (Sol 1268) at the local mean solar time of 12:40:29...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has captured images of sun rays shining through the clouds at sunset, the first time this type of light has ever been observed on the Red Planet. Mars is known for being gloomy with the atmosphere often chocked up with dust so it’s rare to get visible ...
Related galleryPhotos from Perseverance's mission to Mars Perseverance is full of firsts. The search for signs of ancient life on Mars. The first helicopter fly on another planet. The first recordings of sound on the red planet. The most sophisticated rover NASA has built to date has a pack...