It is part of a special set of images marking the 20th anniversary of Odyssey, the longest-working Mars spacecraft in history. The pictured location on Mars is 80.3 degrees north latitude, 172.1 degrees east longitude. >> NASA’s Mars Odyssey Orbiter: 20 Historic Years of Mapping the Red ...
capturing everything from tumbling avalanches and skyscraping dust devils, to other NASA spacecraft on Mars, like the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers. As of early August 2020, HiRISE alone had taken 6,882,204 images.
NASA just released hundreds of stunning new images of Mars — here are some of the bestKevin ReillyJessica Orwig
The rock, nicknamed “Cheyava Falls,” was found by the Mars Perseverance rover, and has traits that lead scientists to think it may have harbored microscopic life from billions of years ago.
NASA has released an image of dunes on Mars that bear a striking similarity to Morse code.The image, which was taken on Feb. 6, 2016 by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a series of dark dunes on the Red Planet’...
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Perseverance’s Portrait of the Sample Depot:NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this portrait of its recently completed sample depot using its Mastcam-Z camera on Jan. 31, 2023, the 693rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS ...
NASA's got you covered. On Thursday, the U.S. space agency released a breathtakingly beautiful photo alongside a post titled, "Blue Dunes on the Red Planet." As noted in the post, the dunes surround Mars' northern polar cap and were created by gusts of wind. The image below shows an...
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has snapped some beautiful photos of a blue-tinged sunset on the Red Planet. Curiosity captured the images, which mission team members combined into a brief video of the Martian sunset, with the rover's Mast Camera between dust storms on April 15, NASA officials ...
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...