CURIOSITY IMAGES
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter does a slow spin test of its blades on April 8, 2021, the 48th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This image was captured by the Mastcam-Z on NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by JPL, which also manages this technology demonstration project for NASA Headquarters. It is supported by NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, and Space Technology Mission Directorate. NASA's Ames Research Center and Langley Research Center provided significant flight performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity's development.
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In this time-lapse video, taken July 19, 2019, in the clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL, the rover's 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) arm maneuvers its 88-pound (40-kilogram) sensor...
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Robotic Arm Is on the Move (Time-lapse)
In this illustration, NASA's Perseverance rover explores Mars' Jezero Crater. The 28-mile-wide (45-kilometers-wide) crater is the location of an ancient lake.
Exploring Majestic Jezero Crater (Illustration)
NASA's Perseverance rover is moved during a test of its mass properties at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The image was taken on April 7, 2020.
Lifting Perseverance Rover
Composed of multiple precisely aligned images from the Context Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, this annotated mosaic depicts a possible route the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover could take ...
Possible Path for Perseverance Rover
A prototype of the Lander Vision System for NASA's Mars 2020 mission was tested in this Dec. 9, 2014, flight of a Masten Space Systems "Xombie" vehicle at Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
Test of Lander Vision System for Mars 2020
Stitched together from five images, this mosaic shows the calibration target for the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars. The component images were taken by SuperCam's remo...
SuperCam Calibration Target on Mars
This annotated image shows a rock target called "Garde" as analyzed by SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals), one of the instruments o...
SHERLOC's View of 'Garde'
This illustration depicts the mechanism and conceptual research targets for an instrument named Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals, or SHERLOC.
X-Ray Instrument for Mars 2020 Rover is PIXL
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 4...
Perseverance Rolls to Launch Pad
This graphic depicts Perseverance's entry into "Séítah" from both an orbital and subsurface perspective. The lower image is a subsurface "radargram" from the rover's RIMFAX instrument; the red line...
Perseverance's Traverse, Seen From Above and Below
This image looking west toward the Séítah geologic unit on Mars was taken from the height of 33 feet (10 meters) by NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter during its sixth flight, on May 22, 2021.
Séítah From the Air
On Sept. 7 NASA's ASPIRE project broke a record when its rocket-launched parachute deployed in 4-10ths of a second - the fastest inflation of this size chute in history.
Testing a Parachute for Mars
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's carbon fiber blades can be seen in this video taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on April 8, 2021, the 48th Martian day, or sol,...
Mastcam-Z Captures Ingenuity's Blades Spinning
An engineering model of SHERLOC, one the instruments onboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Located on the end of the rover's robotic arm, SHERLOC will help determine which samples to take so that...
Mars 2020's SHERLOC Instrument
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Mars 2020 Mission Identifier (Horizontal)
This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying rocks with its robotic arm.
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Artist's Concept #3
A technician working on the Mars 2020 mission takes a sample from the surface of sample tube 241 – to test for contamination. The image was taken in a clean room facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion L...
Sampling Mars 2020 Sample Tube 241
Color has been added to highlight minerals in this image of Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site for NASA's Mars 2020 mission. The green color represents minerals called carbonates, which are es...
Jezero Crater Minerals
Members of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission were jubilant on Feb. 18, 2021, after the spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars. They are in Mission Control at the Jet Propulsion Labo...
Cheers for a Successful Mars Landing
An artist's rendering of the SuperCam instrument aboard the next generation Mars rover scheduled to visit the Red Planet in 2020.
Artist's Concept of the SuperCam Instrument for Mars 2020 Rover
This image of the rocket-powered descent stage sitting on to of NASA's Perseverance rover was taken in a clean room at Kennedy Space Center on April 29, 2020.
Perseverance Rover Gets in Launch Shape
Powerful Launch for Mars 2020 Perseverance
An engineering model of NASA's Mars 2020 rover makes tracks during a driving test in the Mars Yard, an area that simulates Mars-like conditions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Cali...
Mars 2020 Makes Tracks for the Red Planet in the Mars Yard
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this color image from an altitude of 33 feet (10 meters) during its fifth flight on May 7, 2021.
Ingenuity's View from its Fifth Flight