Mars Exploration Robots

Images of NASA's Mars rovers exploring the Martian landscape, showcasing rugged terrain, mountainous features, and the quest for scientific discovery.

NASA's Curiosity rover climbing to the summit of Mount Sharp, its ultimate destination. The floor of Gale Crater, its landing place, is five kilometres below.
NASA's Curiosity rover climbing to the summit of Mount Sharp, its ultimate destination. The floor of Gale Crater, its landing place, is five kilometres below.
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Exhibit of two astronauts and the Lunar Rover at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, USA; Webster, Texas, United States of America
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This illustration shows a simulated view of NASA's InSight lander firing retrorockets to slow down as it descends toward the surface of Mars.
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This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) in NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows an outcrop with finely layered rocks within the 'Murray Buttes' region on lower Mount Sharp.
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Telepresence Virtual Reality (Mars Surface)
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This artist's animation illustrates how NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used radar to map the insides of the north polar ice cap on Mars.
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Ingenuity at Two Years on Mars. This enhanced color image of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard Perseverance on April 16, 2023, the 766th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission. At the time the image was taken, the rover was about 75 feet (23 meters) away. The helicopter's first flight on Mars was on April 19, 2021. This is the best look the Ingenuity team has had of the rotorcraft since its first flight. Small diodes (visible more clearly in this image of helicopter) appear as small protrusions on the top of the helicopter's solar panel. The panel and the two 4-foot (1.2-meter) counter-rotating rotors have accumulated a fine coating of dust. The metalized insulating film covering the exterior of the helicopter's fuselage appears to be intact. Ingenuity's color, 13-megapixel, horizon-facing terrain camera can be seen at the center-bottom of the fuselage. https //photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA25881
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A rover navigating the rocky terrain of Mars a remote explorer in search of lifes signatures
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Astronaut and vehicle on planet surface, illustration.
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Hypothetical Planet of a Cool Star
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Futuristic woman and robot exploring frozen tundra
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Oppotunity Mars exploring the surface of red planet. Elements of this image furnished by NASA. Opportunity Mars exploring the surface of red planet
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Mines in Mazarron, Murcia ,spain, red lakes with minerals
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Allosaurus dinosaurs approach a group of dead sauropods.
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3D Illustration of a Space Station
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A stereo-format photograph showing the Parthie area in Umbal, Tyrol, taken by Friedrich Würthle between 1860 and 1874, preserved on albumin paper in its original box.
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Lunar Rover Field Test
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Spaceman sitting on nameless planet, charging device with solar panel
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Human astronaut explorers studying a giant humanoid sculpture.
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This photograph shows the Vehicle System Test Bed (VSTB) rover, a nearly identical copy to NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars.
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Deep sea mining, computer artwork.
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Digital Art by Boris Rabin Telepresence Russian Rover Marsakhod on Martian surface
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Boeing and NASA teams work around Boeings CST-100 Starliner spacecraft after it landed at White Sands Missile Ranges Space Harbor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico. Boeings Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliners second uncrewed flight test to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. OFT-2 serves as an end-to-end test of the system's capabilities.
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Reflection of the earth on space hat
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A robot and landing craft making deliveries to a habitat dome.
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Bionic model of a Tabacha rolling spider, IdeenPark 2012, a technology and education summit conference for young people, Essen, Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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This image from a video shows the first Martian material collected by the scoop on the robotic arm of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. The material vibrated inside the scoop after it was lifted from the ground.
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Mars exploration, computer artwork
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Meteors and Meteorites
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Drone in desert, illustration
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Android and vehicle on Mars, illustration
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Futuristic transhumans, part machine & part organic biology.
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Simulated Lunar Operations Laboratory (SLOPE), Surface Mobility Research
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Canada, Alberta, Drumheller: Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Dynosaur Hall, Head Skeletons
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Artist's concept of a world where the distinction between animal and plant life on the macro scale isn't so straightforward as it is on Earth
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Arwork of titanosaurs and dromaeosaurs
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Astronaut walking on an Mars planet Astronaut walking on an Mars planet Copyright: xZoonar.com/StanislavxRishnyakx 14398521
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Exhibition artefacts. Moving to Mars at The Design Museum, London, United Kingdom. Architect: N/A, 2019.
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The fossilized skeleton of a T-rex dinosaur.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Space Shuttle Columbia continues up the ramp to Launch Pad 39B in its morning rollout prior to STS-90. Leveling systems within the crawler-transporter underneath the Shuttle keep the platform level while negotiating the five percent ramp leading up to the pad surface. The top of the orbiter is kept vertical within plus or minus 10 minutes of arc, about the diameter of a basketball during the journey. The Neurolab experiments are the primary payload on this nearly 17-day space flight. Investigations during the Neurolab mission will focus on the effects of microgravity on the nervous system. The crew of STS-90, slated for launch April 16 at 2:19 p.m. EDT, includes Commander Richard Searfoss, Pilot Scott Altman, Mission Specialists Richard Linnehan, Dafydd (Dave) Williams, M.D., and Kathryn (Kay) Hire, and Payload Specialists Jay Buckey, M.D., and James Pawelczyk, Ph.D
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Aerial view of a concentrated solar thermal plant, Mojave Desert, California, near Las Vegas, United States.
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A full-scale mockup of NASAs Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is at the News Center at the agencys Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 28, 2020. The rover is scheduled to launch July 30, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rover is part of NASAs Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The rover will search for habitable conditions in the ancient past and signs of past microbial life on Mars. The Launch Services Program at Kennedy is responsible for launch management.
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A drum of jet fuel on the periphery of Erg Chegaga, interior Sahara Desert, Morocco.
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USA, Hawaii, Mauna Kea, Radio telescope near summit of Mauna Kea Volcano
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This image taken at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows engineers rehearsing the sol 133 (June 8, 2004) drive into 'Endurance' crater by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
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This photograph was taken during the testing of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) at the Johnson Space Center. Developed by the MSFC, the LRV was the lightweight electric car designed to increase the range of mobility and productivity of astronauts on the lunar surface. It was used on the last three Apollo missions; Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17.
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Two images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity rover depict the change in the color of light illuminating the Martian surface since a dust storm engulfed Gale Crater. The left image shows the Duluth drill site on Sol 2058 (May 21, 2018); the right image is from Sol 2084 (June 17). The cherry red color in the post-storm image is due to a few factors. One difference between the two images is exposure time the dust over Curiosity creates low-lighting conditions that require longer exposure times for the cameras. The pre-storm image had an exposure time of 7.3 milliseconds, which is normal for the rover; the later image had an exposure time that was 66 milliseconds -- or nine times longer. But a primary factor is red light being filtered through the dust; very little green and essentially no blue light makes it through the dust cloud. It's not unlike the way a forest fire changes the color of light, or a red stage light filters the other colors out. Though the first pre-stor
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As mankind travels through the galaxy he may find worlds that have Earth type environments, making colonization much easier.
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Scientists measuring the Sphinx, Pyramids of Memphis, Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, gouache 1798
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Niger, Tenere Desert. Rock Art thought to be 30,000 years old found near the Oasis of Tezizet.
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Members of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover mission team took pictures of themselves from their home offices on March 20, 2020, the first day the entire mission team worked remotely. Rover planning usually happens at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Clockwise from upper left Rover planner Keri Bean, wearing red-blue 3D glasses; rover planner Camden Miller; tactical uplink lead Jack Quade; and Science Operations Team Chief Carrie Bridge.
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A human Adam meeting an alien Eve.
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The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover's astrobiology mission will search for signs of ancient microbial life. It will also characterize the planet's climate and geology, collect samples for future return to Earth and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet. The mission is part of a larger program that includes missions to the Moon as a way to prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. Charged with returning astronauts to the Moon by 2024, NASA will establish a sustained human presence on and around the Moon by 2028 through NASA's Artemis lunar exploration plans.
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. PIA25666. Prototypes of the rovers being built for NASA's CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) technology demonstration were tested at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in August 2022. CADRE is a technology demonstration designed to show that multiple robots can cooperate and explore together autonomously - without direct input from human mission controllers. By taking simultaneous measurements from multiple locations, CADRE will also demonstrate how multirobot missions can record data impossible for a single robot to achieve - a tantalizing prospect for future missions. The CADRE team dubbed the seven plastic test prototypes the Mercury 7 and named each after one of NASA's seven Project Mercury astronauts. John (for John Glenn) and Scott (for Scott Carpenter) are shown here in a sandbox during a test of the rovers' capability for driving in formation. The formation-driving algorithm will be used to help CADRE rovers map the lunar
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A772056 U12N DIABLO HAWK SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DRAWING FRANK DEAN(Project Engineer) NOV 30 77EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 11/30/1977 DEAN, FRANK; DIABLO HAWK; DIAGRAMS; DRAWINGS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; LOGOS; N-TUNNEL; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DRAWING; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.