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Black and white images of Martian landscapes captured by rovers, showcasing rocky terrains, ridges, and distant horizons under a vast sky.

Looking Up from the Deep

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Mars' Rock Garden

This is the full-resolution version of one of the first images taken by a rear Hazard-Avoidance camera on NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). The image has also been cropped.

Composed of multiple images from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, this mosaic shows a rocky outcrop called Wildcat Ridge, where the rover extracted two rock cores and abraded a circular patch to investigate the rock's composition. The site is in the delta, a fan-shaped area where, billions of years ago, a river once flowed into a lake in Jezero Crater. Scientists consider this area one of the best places on Mars to search for potential signs of ancient microbial life. The images were obtained by the Mastcam-Z instrument on Aug. 4, 2022, the 518th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission. For scale, the bright circular abrasion patch on the right is approximately 2 inches (5 centimeters) in diameter. The color bands of the image have been processed to improve visual contrast and accentuate color differences. The rock cores obtained by Perseverance - each about the size of a piece of classroom chalk - were sealed in ultra-clean sample tubes. They are currently stored in the rover's Sam

These images at 'Garden City' from the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover indicate similarly dark material, but with very different chemistries, in mineral veins.

This anaglyph was acquired by NASA's Phoenix Lander; in the bottom left is a trench dug by Phoenix's Robotic Arm. In the bottom right is one of Phoenix's two solar panels. You will need 3-D glasses to view this image.

This 3D mosaic, created from images taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on sols 115 and 116 (May 21 and 22, 2004) provides a dramatic view of 'Endurance Crater.' 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.

Slow Progress in Dune (Left Front Wheel)

Many prominent rocks near the Sagan Memorial Station are featured in this image from NASA's Mars Pathfinder. 'Shark', 'Half-Dome', and 'Pumpkin' are at center 3D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.

$This view shows a portion of the outcrop named Bosque, including rover wheel tracks, fractured and finely-layered outcrop rocks and smaller, dark cobbles littered across the surface$

'Endurance' Goal Across the Plains

Tantalizing 'Tipuna'

This view of rock layers exposed in the upper portion of the inner slope of Endurance Crater was captured by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity from the rover's position inside the crater during Opportunity's 134th sol on June 9, 2004. Scientists and engineers are assessing possible targets and routes among these rocks. The view is looking down into the crater, so the layers at the top of the image lie lower in the crater than the rocks in the foreground. http //photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06263

Close up of Miocene gravels, Nelson city, 24 June 1953, by Leslie Adkin.

Sojourner Rover Backing Away from Moe - Right Eye

Cape Verde in False Color

This image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover looks down the ramp at the northeastern end of 'Hidden Valley' and across the sandy-floored valley to lower slopes of Mount Sharp on the horizon.

Some Rocky Road Please

This full-circle view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the terrain surrounding the location called 'Troy,' where Spirit became embedded in soft soil during the spring of 2009. 3D glasses are necessary.

Twilight at Gusev

This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a site with a network of prominent mineral veins below a cap rock ridge on lower Mount Sharp.

This colour image taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirits panoramic camera on Sol 40 is centred on an unusually flaky rock called Mimi. Mimi is only one of many features in the area known as Stone Council, but looks very different from any rock that scientists have seen at the Gusev crater site so far. Mimis flaky appearance leads scientists to a number of hypotheses. Mimi could have been subjected to pressure either through burial or impact, or may have once been a dune that was cemented into flaky layers, a process that sometimes involves the action of water.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this southward uphill view after beginning to ascend the northwestern slope of 'Solander Point' on the western rim of Endeavour Crater.

This false-color composite panoramic camera image highlights mysterious and sparkly dust-like material that is created when the soil in this region is disturbed. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took this image on sol 165 (June 20, 2004) in Hank's Hollow, using filters L2, L5 and L7. http //photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06358

Descent from the Summit of 'Husband Hill' (False Color)

This image from NASA's rover Opportunity shows mostly a portion of Endeavour's western rim (left); a paler-looking terrain on the horizon beyond Endeavour (right) is part of a thick deposit of material ejected by the impact that excavated Iazu Crater.

This view of 'Intrepid' crater, about 20 meters (66 feet) in diameter, is a mosaic of images taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The view spans 180 degrees and is centered toward the east.

Microscope on Mars

Spirit Digs a Trench

Mars Climate Continues to Fascinate

This image from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a pale rock called 'Esperence,' which was inspected by the rover in May 2013.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this stereo view of the rover's surroundings on sol (or Martian day) 959 of its surface mission

Panorama view of Apollo 17 Lunar surface photos for use in presentations to NASA management and for Outreach Education in regard to new NASA initiative for human planetary research. Photo numbers used for this panoramic include: Apollo 17 start frame AS17-147-22572 thru end frame AS17-147-22600. View is of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP) Station taken during Extravehicular Activity (EVA) 1.

This is the first image taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). It was taken through a 'fisheye' wide-angle lens on one of the rover's rear left Hazard-Avoidance cameras.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the images combined to make this stereo view on March 21, 2009. West is at the center, where a dust devil is visible in the distance. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.

This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a terrain that includes light-toned bedrock and darker ripples of wind-blown sand.

Curiosity Views Rhythmic Rock Layers. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this image of rhythmic rock layers with a repetitive pattern in their spacing and thickness. The pattern might have been caused by weather or climate cycles occurring while the sediment layers were being deposited, such as dust storms happening at regular intervals in the ancient past. This mosaic is made up of 17 individual images captured in the Marker Band area by Curiosity's Mastcam on Nov. 7, 2022, the 3,646th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The mosaic was captured by Mastcam's 34-millimeter-focal-length camera. https //photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA25734

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity obtained this view from the top of the 'Cape Tribulation' segment of the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover reached this point three weeks before the 11th anniversary of its January 2004 landing on Mars.

'Tuktoyuktuk' Up Close

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this stereo 180-degree view on March 5, 2009. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.

Heat Shield Flank

This image was taken by Opportunity's front hazard-avoidance camera after the Sol 3309 drive, looking back at the tracks produced while the rover was driving in reverse, as it often does.

First Panoramic Look at Meridiani Planum, Mars

A rise topped by two gray rocks near the center of the scene is informally named 'Twin Cairns Island' as seen by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. The center of the scene is toward the southwest.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity combined images into this stereo, 360-degree view on March 28-30, 2009. In this view, the western edge of Home Plate is on the portion of the horizon farthest to the left. 3D glasses are necessary.

Phoenix's Dodo Trench

'Mister Badger' Pushing Mars Rock

Sitting on 'Voltaire'

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Navigation Camera (Navcam) to capture this view on April 11, 2015, during the 952nd Martian day, or sol of the rover's work on Mars.

Spirit and Its Now-Empty Mother Ship

This area of terrain near the Sagan Memorial Station was taken by NASA's Mars Pathfinder. The curved rock dubbed 'Couch.' 3D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.

'Endurance' From the Inside

This view of the landscape to the north of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity acquired by the Mars Hand Lens Imager on the afternoon of the first day of landing. In the distance, the image shows the north wall and rim of Gale Crater.

Opportunity Rolls Free Again (Right Front Wheel)

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