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This graphic shows the ongoing contributions of NASA’s rovers and orbiters during a Martian dust storm that began on May 30, 2018.

June 13, 2018

This graphic shows the ongoing contributions of NASA’s rovers and orbiters during a Martian dust storm that began on May 30, 2018.

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This graph plots several Mars rocks on a chart. Particularly, Wildrose and Bonanaza King in orange which on the graph have high amounts of silicon in comparison to some other Mars rocks shown in other colors.
Martian Rocks Rich in Silicon
In this image, engineers test cameras on the top of the mast and front chassis of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The image was taken on July 23, 2019, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southe...
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In this image, engineers test cameras on the top of the Mars 2020 rover’s mast and front chassis.
Testing Perseverance's Vision
This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows an example of a type of geometrically distinctive feature that researchers are using Curiosity to exami...
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This image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows an example of a type of geometrically distinctive feature that researchers are examining at a mudstone outcrop at the base of Mount Sharp.
Resistant Features in 'Pahrump Hills' Outcrop
A close-up image of a 2-inch-deep hole produced using a new drilling technique for NASA's Curiosity rover. The hole is about 0.6 inches across (1.6 centimeters). This image was taken by Curiosity's...
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A close-up image of a 2-inch-deep hole produced using a new drilling technique for NASA's Curiosity rover. The hole is about 0.6 inches across (1.6 centimeters). This image was taken by Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Sol 2057. It has been white balanced and contrast enhanced.
Curiosity Successfully Drills "Duluth"
This mosaic image with a close-up inset, taken prior to the test, shows the rock chosen as the first target for NASA's Curiosity rover to zap with its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument.
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This mosaic image with a close-up inset, taken prior to the test, shows the rock chosen as the first target for NASA's Curiosity rover to zap with its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument.
'Coronation' Rock on Mars
This image shows lava crumpled against the upstream side of an impact crater.
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This image shows lava crumpled against the upstream side of an impact crater.
Lava Against an Impact Crater in Elysium Planitia
Researchers created each of 11 pieces in the 3D printer and glued them together to build the true-size model.
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Researchers created each of 11 pieces in the 3D printer and glued them together to build the true-size model.
Meteorite Model Pieces
The graph at right presents information from the NASA Curiosity Mars rover's onboard analysis of rock powder drilled from the "Big Sky" and "Greenhorn" target locations, shown at left.
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The graph at right presents information from the NASA Curiosity Mars rover's onboard analysis of rock powder drilled from the "Big Sky" and "Greenhorn" target locations, shown at left.
'Big Sky' and 'Greenhorn' Drill Holes and CheMin X-ray Diffraction
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this stereo view of a crater informally named "Freedom 7" shortly before the 50th anniversary of the first American in space: astronaut Alan Shepa...
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this stereo view of a crater informally named "Freedom 7" shortly before the 50th anniversary of the first American in space: astronaut Alan Shepard's flight in the Freedom 7 spacecraft.
Martian 'Freedom 7' Crater 50 Years After Freedom 7 Flight (Stereo)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the MAHLI camera at the end of its arm in April and May 2014 to take dozens of component images combined into this self-portrait where the rover drilled into a sand...
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Curiosity, rover, self-portrait, rock, drilling, windjana, waypoint, kimberley - This image is a self-portrait of the Curiosity rover taken from the site with the rover's 'head' down, with rock formations surrounding it and Mount Sharp in the background.
Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Windjana' Drilling Site
This artist's concept shows NASA's Mars orbiters lining up behind the Red Planet for their "duck and cover" maneuver to shield them fro comet dust that may result from the close flyby of comet Sidi...
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This artist's concept shows NASA's Mars orbiters lining up behind the Red Planet for their "duck and cover" maneuver to shield them fro comet dust that may result from the close flyby of comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1) on Oct. 19, 2014.
Siding Spring Mars Spacecraft
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
Mars Mission Blasts Off
This graph presents information from the NASA Curiosity Mars rover's onboard analysis of rock powder drilled from the "Buckskin" and "Greenhorn" target locations on lower Mount Sharp.
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This graph presents information from the NASA Curiosity Mars rover's onboard analysis of rock powder drilled from the "Buckskin" and "Greenhorn" target locations on lower Mount Sharp.
Silica in Opal at 'Buckskin' and 'Greenhorn' on Mount Sharp
The reclosable dust cover on Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) was opened for the first time during the 33rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Sept. 8, 2012), enabling MA...
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The reclosable dust cover on Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) was opened for the first time during the 33rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (Sept. 8, 2012), enabling MAHLI to take this image.
First Image From Curiosity's Arm Camera With Dust Cover Open
This illustration provides a comparison for how big the moons of Mars appear to be, as seen from the surface of Mars, in relation to the size that Earth's moon appears to be when seen from the surf...
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This illustration provides a comparison for how big the moons of Mars appear to be, as seen from the surface of Mars, in relation to the size that Earth's moon appears to be when seen from the surface of Earth.
Illustration Comparing Apparent Sizes of Moons
Curiosity viewed sloping buttes and layered outcrops as it exited the "Murray Buttes" region on lower Mount Sharp, Sept. 9, 2016.
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Curiosity viewed sloping buttes and layered outcrops as it exited the "Murray Buttes" region on lower Mount Sharp, Sept. 9, 2016.
Farewell to Murray Buttes (Image 2)
This is a "scuff" mark or rover "boot print" in the Gusev Crater location dubbed "Serpent."
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This is a "scuff" mark or rover "boot print" in the Gusev Crater location dubbed "Serpent."
Serpent' Scuff
Artist's concept of Mars Opposition on December 24, 2007. The distances between the sun, the planets, and the distant nebula are not to scale.
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Artist's concept of Mars Opposition on December 24, 2007. The distances between the sun, the planets, and the distant nebula are not to scale.
Illustration of the Earth and Mars in opposition
The HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to capture this image of the final location of the heat shield that helped protect NASA’s Perseverance rover during its landing ...
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Close-Up of Perseverance Heat Shield on the Martian Surface
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, left, and Erisa Hines of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, speak to members of the news media during a preview of the new "Destination: Mars...
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Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, left, and Erisa Hines of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, speak to members of the news media during a preview of the new "Destination: Mars" experience at the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex in Florida.
"Destination: Mars" experience at the Kennedy Space Center
This image shows a graben (a trough formed when the ground drops between two parallel faults) and a lava flow in the Tharsis volcanic province of Mars. North is up.
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This image shows a graben (a trough formed when the ground drops between two parallel faults) and a lava flow in the Tharsis volcanic province of Mars. North is up.
Graben Cutting Lava Flow in Tharsis
NASA is advancing the Journey to Mars by starting the conversation about where humans may one day land on the Red Planet.
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This image shows the different exploration zones for Mars landing sites for human missions to the surface of Mars.
Mars Exploration Zone Layout Considerations
This image covers plains near Aureum Chaos.
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This image covers plains near Aureum Chaos.
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The nodule in the center of this March 10, 2016, image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows individual grains of sand and (on the right) laminations from the ...
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The nodule in the center of this March 10, 2016, image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows individual grains of sand and (on the right) laminations from the sandstone deposit in which the nodule formed..
Sandstone Nodule Beside 'Naukluft Plateau' on Mount Sharp, Mars

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