NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks to attendees at the Banana Creek viewing area prior to the launch of the Mars…
The Atlantic Ocean provides a backdrop as the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket clears the tower at Space Launch…
With a thunderous roar, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off the launch pad, sending the MSL spacecraft…
In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians inspect under NASA's Mars Science Laboratory…
Still from animation C/NOFS-CINDI mission satellite in orbit around Earth.
The Atlas V rocket standing inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 is topped by NASA's Mars…
This figure shows images acquired through each of the eight filters in the filter wheel of the 34-millimeter-focal-length Mast Camera…
Color coding in this image of Gale Crater on Mars represents differences in elevation, with blue relatively low and tan…
Russian support personnel work to help get crew members out of the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft shortly after the capsule landed…
This image illustrates the principals of a technique called "laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy," which the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument will…
