The arguments continue to rage, but results from NASA's latest
rovers show that the surface of Mars was almost certainly wet in the past and therefore hospitable to life.
A mosaic of images from the navigation cameras on the NASA Curiosity
rover shows «halos» of lighter - toned bedrock around fractures.
This image from NASA's Mars Curiosity
rover shows the Amargosa Valley, on the slopes leading up to Mount Sharp on Mars.
This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars
rover shows dramatic buttes and layers on the lower flank of Mount Sharp.
Data and samples observed by
the rover showed the previous presence of lakes and freshwater that are essential in the survival of microbial life.
This movie from NASA's Curiosity
rover shows all the «thumbnail» (low - resolution) frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown.
This movie from NASA's Curiosity
rover shows most of the high - resolution frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown.
This sped - up movie from the Curiosity
rover shows Phobos (the larger of Mars» two moons) passing in front of smaller Deimos.
LAND
ROVER SHOWS DESIGN FUTURE You may remember that Land Rover used the Discovery nameplate in the past, but for the last decade it used the names LR3 and LR4 in the U.S. Well, what was old is now new.
Not exact matches
«Newsflash you pompous old git chips, those ignorant fans paid for your range
rover and your wife's facelift (not that it did much good, silk purse and sow's ears and all that...) so you should
show some respect to the people who pay over the odds so you can quaff champers at breakfast».
Research in the field of play, specifically Rough and Tumble Play (RTP)-- which includes games children have always enjoyed, from pretend games of war / fighting, playing tag and chase, and «red
rover» type games to father and son roughhousing in the living room —
shows us why this type of play, in particular, promotes healthy development because:
This set of three images
shows views three seconds apart as the larger of Mars» two moons, Phobos, passed directly in front of the sun as seen by NASA's Mars
rover Curiosity.
At its closest, Siding Spring was only 139,500 kilometers, roughly a third the Earth - moon distance, from the planet's surface, meaning it probably put on quite a
show for
rovers like...
This compilation of three images
shows the
rover's drill in action, boring into a rock called «John Klein» in the Yellowknife Bay region of Gale Crater.
An image from the Curiosity
rover's Front Hazard - Avoidance Camera
shows the
rover drilling into its second rock target, «Cumberland.»
LITTLE BITS The
rover Curiosity (
shown) reached the base of Mars» Mount Sharp in September and drilled rock samples.
An image from Mars orbit taken 10 years after the launch of NASA's Mars Exploration
Rover Opportunity
shows the long - lived
rover on its trek to a new destination on Mars.
Curiosity has not caught a sand slide in action, but the
rover's images of the Namib Dune slip face
show where such slides have occurred recently.
Rhawn Joseph of San Jose, California, filed the suit after an unusual object
showed up in front of NASA's Opportunity
rover.
Scientists were counting the tracks on images taken by a satellite orbiting Mars; but now, images from a
rover have
shown those counts to be wrong.
Images looking down at the
rover's deck
show an almost pristine surface, with just a few small tails of dust, compared to the dingy surface seen just a day earlier.
At its closest, Siding Spring was only 139,500 kilometers, roughly a third the Earth - moon distance, from the planet's surface, meaning it probably put on quite a
show for
rovers like Curiosity.
Visible tracks commencing at the landing site
show the path the
rover traveled eastward to Glenelg.
NASA Curiosity
rover has
shown signs of aging after almost five years of exploring the Red Planet.
Later measurements
showed that Huygens likely broke through a hard crust and sank into softer material below.That would not be a friendly environment for a
rover; the Spirit
rover on Mars, for example, became permanently stuck in place after breaking through a hard dirt crust in 2009.
This discovery on its 10 - year anniversary
shows that the little
rover still has something to say about Mars.
The prized photo taken by the
rover's Mastcam
shows rows and rows of the distinctively - shaped sand dunes.
This artist's rendering
shows the Curiosity
rover landing on Mars.
The fine layers of sedimentary rocks the
rover detected the mineral on, however,
showed evidence that they may have been part of lakebed deposits.
NASA has revealed a new image, recorded and dispatched by its Curiosity Mars
rover, which
shows two asteroids as viewed for the first time from the Martian surface.
This image from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration
Rover Opportunity
shows the location of a rock called «Pinnacle Island» before it appeared in front of the
rover in early January 2014.
Opportunity
shows where a rock called «Pinnacle Island» (lower left corner) had been before it appeared in front of the
rover in early January 2014 (Image: NASA / JPL - Caltech / Cornell Univ. / Arizona State University)
Here's the second half of our December
show recorded in front of a live audience: Mars
rover updates, two more spacey songs from KJ Williams, and the big finish of Emily Lakdawalla's proof that she is not covering up evidence of aliens in our solar system!
This sequence of images from the Front Hazard - Avoidance Camera on NASA's Mars
rover Curiosity
shows the
rover drilling into rock target «Cumberland.»
The data obtained from the NASA Curiosity
rover on the existence of life on Mars for the last four years
showed that Mars was habitable billions of years ago.
In the first episode of a new JPL video series, we celebrate the 14th anniversary of the Opportunity
rover,
show you a recent panoramic view from the Curiosity
rover, look at ice deposits spotted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and check out the latest test on the InSight lander, heading to the Red Planet in May 2018.
This video (part 3 of a 4 part series)
shows engineers testing a new parachute in the largest wind tunnel on Earth for the Curiosity
rover prior to its launch and landing.
This video clip
shows the first Martian material collected by the scoop on the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Curiosity
rover, being vibrated inside the scoop after it was lifted from the ground on Oct. 7, 2012.
This animation
shows NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying over NASA's Curiosity (
shown in pink) as the
rover lands on the Red Planet.
This animation
shows the approximate true position of NASA's Curiosity
rover on Mars.
This movie clip
shows Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars, passing overhead, as observed by NASA's Mars
rover Curiosity in a series of images centered straight overhead starting shortly after sunset.
This movie
shows the first 360 - degree panorama in color of the Gale Crater landing site taken by NASA's Curiosity
rover.
This video depicts NASA's Curiosity
rover observing Mars» two moons, then
shows one moon passing in front of the other.
This animation
shows how NASA's Curiosity
rover communicates with Earth via two of NASA's Mars orbiters, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Odyssey, and the European Space Agency's Mars Express.
This movie begins with an expansive 360 - degree view from NASA's Curiosity
rover,
showing the surrounding terrain within Gale Crater, then zooms in on the
rover's deck.
This video clip
shows the larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passing directly in front of the sun, in an eclipse photographed by NASA's Mars
rover Curiosity.
An image mosaic taken in January
shows the
rover's next major scientific target, an area with clay - bearing rocks that researchers have studied from orbit.
This video (part 2 of a 4 part series)
shows engineers testing a new parachute in the largest wind tunnel on Earth for the Curiosity
rover.
This video clip
shows moments during a demonstration of drilling into a rock at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., with a test double of the Mars
rover Curiosity.
This simulation
shows planned movements of the arm on NASA's Curiosity
rover for round one of its robotic arm checkouts, expected to run on Sol 33 (Sept. 8, 2012).