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…
This artist's impression Mars' Gale Crater depicts a cross section through the mountain in the middle of the crater, from…
Gale Crater, where the rover Curiosity of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission will land in August 2012, contains a mountain…
The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission will study chemistry of rocks, soil and…
This set of views illustrates capabilities of the Mast Camera (MastCam) instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover, using…
