NASA'S INSIGHT MISSION ON MARS
Photos: The best moments on Mars
Curiosity took images on September 9, 2015,
of Mount Sharp, a hematite-rich ridge, a plain full of clay minerals to create
a composite and rounded buttes high in sulfate minerals. The changing
mineralogy in these layers of Mount Sharp suggests a changing environment in
early Mars, though all involve exposure to water billions of years ago.
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HiRISE captured layered deposits and a bright
ice cap at the Martian north pole.
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This image, combining data from two
instruments aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, depicts an orbital view of the
north polar region of Mars. The ice-rich polar cap is 621 miles across, and the
dark bands in are deep troughs. To the right of center, a large canyon, Chasma
Boreale, almost bisects the ice cap. Chasma Boreale is about the length of the
United States' famous Grand Canyon and up to 1.2 miles deep.
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Although Mars isn't geologically active like
Earth, surface features have been heavily shaped by wind. Wind-carved features
such as these, called yardangs, are common on the Red Planet. On the sand, the
wind forms ripples and small dunes. In Mars' thin atmosphere, light is not
scattered much, so the shadows cast by the yardangs are sharp and dark.
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From its perch high on a ridge, Opportunity
recorded this image of a Martian dust devil twisting through the valley below.
The view looks back at the rover's tracks leading up the north-facing slope of
Knudsen Ridge, which forms part of the southern edge of Marathon Valley.
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HiRISE took this image of a kilometer-size
crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars in June 2014. The crater shows frost
on all its south-facing slopes in late winter as Mars is heading into spring.
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used its
HiRISE camera to obtain this view of an area with unusual texture on the
southern floor of Gale Crater.
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A dramatic, fresh impact crater dominates
this image taken by the HiRISE camera on November 19, 2013. The crater spans
approximately 100 feet and is surrounded by a large, rayed blast zone. Because
the terrain where the crater formed is dusty, the fresh crater appears blue in
the enhanced color of the image, due to removal of the reddish dust in that
area.
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Opportunity used its panoramic camera to
record this eastward horizon view on October 31, 2010. A portion of Endeavour
Crater's eastern rim, nearly 19 miles in the distance, is visible over the
Meridiani Planum.
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InSight's seismometer recorded a
"marsquake" for the first time on April 6, 2019.
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A photo of a preserved river channel on Mars,
taken by an orbiting satellite, with color overlaid to show different
elevations. Blue is low and yellow is high.
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NASA has been exploring Mars since 1965. Here
are some of the best moments captured by Mars missions over the years.
The European Space Agency's Mars Express mission captured this image of the Korolev crater, more than 50 miles across and filled with water ice, near the north pole.
The European Space Agency's Mars Express mission captured this image of the Korolev crater, more than 50 miles across and filled with water ice, near the north pole.
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This is NASA InSight's first selfie on Mars.
It displays the lander's solar panels and deck. On top of the deck are its
science instruments, weather sensor booms and UHF antenna.
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This perspective of Mars' Valles Marineris
hemisphere from July 9, 2013, is actually a mosaic comprising 102 Viking
Orbiter images. At the center is the Valles Marineris canyon system, over 2,000
kilometers long and up to 8 kilometers deep.
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