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NASA Science missions circle Earth, the Sun, the Moon, Mars and many other destinations within our solar system, including spacecraft that look out even further into our universe. The Science Fleet depicts the scope of NASA's activity and how our missions have traveled throughout the solar system.

November 21, 2018

NASA Science missions circle Earth, the Sun, the Moon, Mars and many other destinations within our solar system, including spacecraft that look out even further into our universe. The Science Fleet depicts the scope of NASA's activity and how our missions have traveled throughout the solar system.

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On its 256th orbit of Mars, the camera on-board the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft successfully observed the vicinity of the Pathfinder landing site. The images shown are a stereoscopic image pair...
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On its 256th orbit of Mars, the camera on-board the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft successfully observed the vicinity of the Pathfinder landing site. The images shown are a stereoscopic image pair in anaglyph format, made from the overlapping area of MOC 25603 and 23703
Pathfinder Landing Site Observed by Mars Orbiter Camera - "Big Crater" in Stereo View
MOXIE engineer Asad Aboobaker of JPL explains how the instrument works in this video interview.
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MOXIE engineer Asad Aboobaker of JPL explains how the instrument works in this video interview.
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NASA's Curiosity rover has detected the simple carbon-containing compounds chloro- and dichloromethane from the powdered rock sample extracted from the "John Klein" rock on Mars.
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NASA's Curiosity rover has detected the simple carbon-containing compounds chloro- and dichloromethane from the powdered rock sample extracted from the "John Klein" rock on Mars.
Chlorinated Forms of Methane at "John Klein" Site
The image on the left is an enhanced-color image taken by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover of a rocky outcrop in the "Séítah" geologic unit of Jezero Crater.
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The image on the left is an enhanced-color image taken by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover of a rocky outcrop in the "Séítah" geologic unit of Jezero Crater.
Two Perspectives of 'Séítah Rocks'
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Mars Folder
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Divide and conquer: combining 11 small sections of "Block Island" (the color map shows five of the sections).
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Divide and conquer: combining 11 small sections of "Block Island" (the color map shows five of the sections).
'Block Island' Color Map
This animation shows the approximate true position of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. A 3-D virtual model of Curiosity is shown inside Gale Crater, near Mount Sharp, Curiosity's ultimate destinatio...
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Explore Mars With Curiosity
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Members of NASA’s Mars 2020 project install the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) into the chassis of NASA’s next Mars rover.
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Mars 2020 engineers install the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) into the chassis of the rover.
This Is One Mars Rover With MOXIE
A portion of an exposure of bedrock dubbed "Larry's Outcrop" shows little layering in this view, in contrast to nearby outcrops called "Methuselah" and "Jibsheet."
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A portion of an exposure of bedrock dubbed "Larry's Outcrop" shows little layering in this view, in contrast to nearby outcrops called "Methuselah" and "Jibsheet."
Larry's Outcrop' in False Color
This false-color image taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the spherules that speckle the rock dubbed Stone Mountain
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This false-color image taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the spherules that speckle the rock dubbed Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain
This self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity comes courtesy of the Sun and the rover's front hazard-avoidance camera.
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This self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity comes courtesy of the Sun and the rover's front hazard-avoidance camera.
Opportunity Catches its Shadow
This animation shows the major mission events of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars. (Audio: music and mechanical sounds only)
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Curiosity Rover Trailer
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Planum Australe Region
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Planum Australe Region
Planum Australe Region
Download a PDF of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Launch Press Kit.
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Mars 2020 Perseverance Launch Press Kit
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This mosaic from the Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover shows the view looking toward the "Glenelg" area, where three different terrain types come together.
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This mosaic from the Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover shows the view looking toward the "Glenelg" area, where three different terrain types come together.
On the Road to Glenelg (Unannotated)
Meet two of the Martian samples that have been collected and are awaiting return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign. As of late June 2023, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has collec...
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Meet two of the Martian samples that have been collected and are awaiting return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign.
Meet the Mars Samples: Shuyak and Mageik (Samples 14 and 15)
NASA's Mars 2020 rover, now called Perseverance, undergoes processing at a payload servicing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 14, 2020.
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NASA's Mars 2020 rover, now called Perseverance, undergoes processing at a payload servicing facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 14, 2020.
Perseverance in Progress
Propulsion Lead Rebekah Lam participates in Perseverance’s  second trajectory correction maneuver at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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Propulsion Lead Checks the Tanks
Women working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pose for a photo in mission control in honor of Women in Science Day.
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Women working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pose for a photo in mission control in honor of Women in Science Day.
Women in Science
PIXL requires pictures of its rock targets to autonomously position itself. Light diodes circle its opening take pictures of rock targets when the instrument is working at night. Using artificial i...
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Image showing PIXL illuminated with purple lights
PIXL's Nightlight
This graph shows changes in apparent brightness of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring as it approached and receded from Mars, as seen by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on...
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This graph shows changes in apparent brightness of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring as it approached and receded from Mars, as seen by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The pattern suggests the comet rotates once every eight hours.
Brightness Rhythm of Mars Flyby Comet Is Clue to Rotation Rate
This area at the base of Mount Sharp on Mars includes a pale outcrop, called "Pahrump Hills," that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover investigated from September 2014 to March 2015, and the "Artist's Driv...
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This area at the base of Mount Sharp on Mars includes a pale outcrop, called "Pahrump Hills," that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover investigated from September 2014 to March 2015, and the "Artist's Drive" route toward higher layers of the mountain.
Curiosity Heading Away from 'Pahrump Hills'
This collage shows the variety of soils found at landing sites on Mars.
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This collage shows the variety of soils found at landing sites on Mars.
A Sampling of Martian Soils
This artist's concept shows the MAVEN spacecraft in orbit around the Red Planet, with a fanciful image of her home planet in the background.
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This artist's concept shows the MAVEN spacecraft in orbit around the Red Planet, with a fanciful image of her home planet in the background.
MAVEN to Mars
On "Vera Rubin Ridge," to determine whether dust coatings are hiding rocks' hematite content, the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this Sept. 17, 2017, image of a rock surface that had b...
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On "Vera Rubin Ridge," to determine whether dust coatings are hiding rocks' hematite content, the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this Sept. 17, 2017, image of a rock surface that had been brushed with the rover's Dust Removal Tool. The purplish tint may indicate fine-grained hematite.
Curiosity Checks Under the Dust on a Martian Rock

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