August 08, 2012
These images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show a before-and-after comparison of the area where NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). The images were taken by the Context Camera on MRO...
A number of factors led to the use of 2MP sensors in the main imaging cameras used on NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, says the project manager responsible for their development. The slow data rates available for broadcasting images back...
NASA's Curiosity rover vehicle, that landed on Mars on August 6th, has sent back its first color images of the planet's dusty yellow/orange landscape. The image was taken with the camera on the rover's still retracted robotic arm, from...
August 07, 2012
This picture of the Martian landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover puts a color view obtained by the rover in the context of a computer simulation derived from images acquired from orbiting spacecraft. The view looks north,...
August 07, 2012
This image shows the location (green) where scientists estimate NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars within Gale Crater, based on images from the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI). The stack of color MARDI images was taken as the...
August 06, 2012
This view of the landscape to the north of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity acquired by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the afternoon of the first day after landing. (The team calls this day Sol 1,...
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What's it like inside the spacecraft that is carrying NASA's Curiosity rover to Mars right now? Using its own white light LEDs (light emitting diode) source, the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) aboard the Mars Science Laboratory...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 12 April 2012
MRO CTX SURPASSES 75% COVERAGE OF MARS
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera (CTX) reached...
Today marks the one thousand day anniversary of LROC imaging from lunar orbit. Since 30 June 2009, LROC has acquired a total of 750,000 images: of these, 140,000 are WAC images and 440,000 are NAC images of the...
The Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera at the end of the robotic arm of NASA's Curiosity rover will use a calibration target attached to a shoulder joint of the arm. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The camera at the end...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 25 August 2011
NASA'S MSL ROVER PREPPING FOR LAUNCH WITH FOUR MSSS CAMERAS ABOARD
NASA’s next Mars rover,...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Juno spacecraft completed its last significant terrestrial journey today, July 27, with a 15-mile (25-kilometer) trip from Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., to its launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 26 July 2011
MRO CTX/MARCI SCIENCE TEAM RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS NASA AWARD
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 26 July 2011
MRO CTX/MARCI SCIENCE TEAM RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS NASA AWARD
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera...
This view of Gale is a mosaic of observations made in the visible-light portion of the spectrum by the Thermal Emission Imaging System camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's next Mars rover will land at the...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 13 July 2011
JPL PRESENTS MSSS WITH PROCUREMENT QUALITY ASSURANCE AWARD FOR JUNO
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