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Curiosity's Traverse Map Through Sol 309
June 19, 2013
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This image from the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an impact scar on Mars made by pieces of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft that the spacecraft shed just before entering the Mar...
Impact Scars from MSL Cruise Stage and Two Balance Weights (Figure 1)
This terrain is covered by pits and scallops (pits open on one side), perhaps due to collapse after sublimation of subsurface ice.
Utopia Planitia Scallops, Polygons, and Boulders (3-D)
Animation of a skinny "dust devil" on the dust-covered Amazonis Planitia region of northern Mars. (No audio)
Mars' Whirling Dust Devil
This series of images shows warm-season features that might be evidence of salty liquid water active on Mars today.
Warm-Season Flows on Slope in Horowitz Crater (Nine-Image Sequence)
This crater has gullies on its southwest-facing walls and rim, as well as and what appears to be two separate instances of lobate (ear-shaped) material associated to its interior gullies.
Gullies and Lobate Material in a Crater in Nereidum Montes (3-D)
Phobos from 6,800 Kilometers
Phobos from 5,800 Kilometers (Color)
Impact cratering and erosion combine to reveal the composition of the Martian underground by exposing materials from the subsurface.
Clay Minerals in Craters and Escarpments on Mars (Figure 1)
Images like this from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show portions of the Martian surface in unprecedented detail.
True Gullies on Mars
This image shows an outcrop of the south polar layered deposits (SPLD). The SPLD consist of layers of ice and admixed dust and make up the bulk of the dome-shaped Planum Australe.
Troughs and Scarps in Planum Australe
This image taken on May 19, 2010, shows an impact crater that had not existed when the same location on Mars was previously observed in March 2008.
Icy Material Thrown from Cratering Impact on Mars
'Marsshine' on Shadowed Part of Phobos
Phobos from 5,800 Kilometers
The HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is the most powerful telescope to have left Earth orbit. HiRISE is capable of some interesting astronomical observations such as this image of J...
Jupiter Viewed From Mars
In the novel and movie "The Martian," an astronaut's adventures take him to the rim of Mawrth Crater. This image from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the nature of thi...
Western Edge of Mars' Marth Crater, a Movie Location
With its cracked, blistery appearance, this mound near the center of a very large, over 5-kilometer diameter mid-latitude crater poses an interesting question: how did this form?
An Unusual Mound
This is a diagram that shows the launch phases for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's Launch Timeline
Several types of downhill flow features have been observed on Mars. This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is an exampl...
Linear Gullies Inside Russell Crater, Mars
This image shows a portion of the central mound in the impact crater Gale that is of interest to scientists because it is composed of light-toned layered deposits.
Layers in a Central Mound in Gale Crater (3-D)
This image acquired on September 18, 2018 by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows araneiform terrain (colloquially: spider-like terrain) located in the south polar region of Mars.
The Enduring Charm of Martian Spiders
This image, taken Jan. 26, 2012, shows NASA's no-longer-active Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft after its second Martian arctic winter.
Phoenix Lander After Second Martian Winter
This proposed future Mars landing site in Acidalia Planitia targets densely occurring mounds thought to be mud volcanoes.
Proposed Future Mars Landing Site: Acidalia Planitia Mud Volcanoes
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...
Brightness Rhythm of Mars Flyby Comet Is Clue to Rotation Rate
Dunes are often found on crater floors. In the winter, at high northern latitudes, the terrain is covered by carbon-dioxide ice (dry ice).
Frost-Covered Dunes in a Crater
This graphic presents Martian atmospheric temperature data as curtains over an image of Mars taken during a regional dust storm. The temperature profiles extend from the surface to about 50 miles u...
Mars Atmospheric Temperature and Dust Storm Tracking
This image, acquired by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a new impact crater that has appeared on the surface of Mars, formed at most between September 2016 and February 2019.
A Work of Art
Three pairs of before and after images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter illustrate movement of ripples on dark sand dunes in...
Changes in Ripples on Martian Dunes in Nili Patera
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