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Portrait of APXS on Mars
Portrait of APXS on Mars

This image shows the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) on NASA's Curiosity rover, with the Martian landscape in the background.…

Opening and Closing Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Instrument
Opening and Closing Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Instrument

This set of images from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the inlet covers for the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument opening…

New York City on September 11, 2001
New York City on September 11, 2001

Visible from space, a smoke plume rises from the Manhattan area after two planes crashed into the towers of the…

Shape of Vesta
Shape of Vesta

This image from NASA's Dawn mission shows the topography of the northern and southern hemispheres of the giant asteroid Vesta,…

Wheels and a Destination
Wheels and a Destination

This view of the three left wheels of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines two images that were taken by the…

Wheels and a Destination
Wheels and a Destination

This view of the three left wheels of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines two images that were taken by the…

A Piece of New Mexico on Mars
A Piece of New Mexico on Mars

A sample of basaltic rock from a lava flow in New Mexico serves as a calibration target carried on the…

First Image From Curiosity’s Arm Camera With Dust Cover Open
First Image From Curiosity’s Arm Camera With Dust Cover Open

The reclosable dust cover on Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) was opened for the first time during the 33rd…

Rover Takes Self Portrait
Rover Takes Self Portrait

On Sol 32 (Sept. 7, 2012) the Curiosity rover used a camera located on its arm to obtain this self…

Armstrong at Ames
Armstrong at Ames

Ames test pilot Fred Drinkwater, astronaut Neil Armstrong, and Ames project engineer Stu Rolls in front of the Ames Bell…