Mars Surface Exploration

High-resolution images of the Martian landscape, featuring unique geological formations such as dunes, craters, and chasms from NASA's Mars missions.

Wonders of Eos Chasma

Cydonia: Two Years Later

The small, dark dunes in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft are located on the northern plains.

Wonders of Eos Chasma

The craters on Mars display a variety of interior deposits, one of which is shown in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey. Spallanzani Crater is located far enough south that it probably experiences the seasonal growth and retreat of the south polar cap.

This VIS image shows small channels at many different elevations, all part of the complex region between the northern and southern main channels of Kasei Valles.

The intersecting ridges in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft are part of Angustus Labyrinthus, informally called Inca City.

Layers and Boulders in Crater Wall, Nepenthes Mensae Region

This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the region near the south polar cap called Angustus Labyrinthus, which is defined by the linear ridges.

Do you see what I see Poor Mickey Mouse, only his head remains at the bottom of this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

Revealing Roosevelt

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings.

Context Camera Spots Dust Devils at Phoenix Landing Site

Oblique Olympus Mons

Apollo 8,Moon, Latitude 15 degrees South,Longitude 170 degrees West. Camera Tilt Mode: High Oblique. Direction: Southeast. Sun Angle 17 degrees. Original Film Magazine was labeled E. Camera Data: 70mm Hasselblad; F-Stop: F-5.6; Shutter Speed: 1/250 second. Film Type: Kodak SO-3400 Black and White,ASA 40. Other Photographic Coverage: Lunar Orbiter 1 (LO I) S-3. Flight Date: December 21-27,1968.

Spirit's View on Sol 100 (right eye)

Spirit Heads Toward History (right eye)

An extensive sand sheet and dunes are located within Pityusa Patera. This daytime infrared image shows that the sand is relatively warmer than the surrounding materials.

Angustus Labyrinthus

Proposed MSL Site in Melas Chasma

Complex Wind Streaks

Jupiter's Equatorial Region at 889 Nanometers (Time Set 2)

Tvashtar Movie

Opportunity View on Sol 398

Opportunity's View After Drive on Sol 1806 (Vertical)

Cumulative driving by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity surpassed marathon distance on March 24, 2015, as the rover neared a destination called 'Marathon Valley,' which is middle ground of this dramatic view from early March.

Lava Flows at Zamama, Io

Sample of the Argyre Impact Basin Rim

This VIS image of Charlier Crater's sand sheet was taken at the same time as yesterday's THEMIS IR image. In this image the dunes are darker than the surroundings, unlike yesterday's thermal image.

This image shows comet Tempel 1 sixty seconds before it ran over NASA's Deep Impact probe at 10:52 p.m. Pacific time, July 3 (1:52 a.m. Eastern time, July 4)., 2005.

The ejecta pattern around this northern plains crater is termed 'butterfly' for its similarity to butterfly wings, as shown in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

Adirondack Under the Microscope-2

This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the floor of this unnamed crater in the northern lowlands is partially filled by a sand sheet with surface dune forms.

Morning on Chryse Planitia - Viking Lander 1 Camera 1 Mosaic

This image was acquired by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Surface Stereo Imager and shows sublimation of ice in the trench informally called 'Dodo-Goldilocks' over the course of four days.

This image displays the intersection of Holden Crater with Uzboi Valles. This region of Mars contains a number of features that could be related to liquid water on the surface in the Martian past.

Gullies in Crater Wall

This small group of dunes in located within Kasei Valles. This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey was captured on June 16, 2010.

Aerial view of a part of the area affected during the flood disaster of 1953. Note: The description of this photo is not yet complete and will be supplemented on the basis of the data available at a later stage. However, of many photos of the flood disaster 1953, the location is unknown.

Wide-Angle View of Gusev Dust Devil, Sol 559

NASA's Voyager 2 took this wide-angle image of Uranus' rings as the spacecraft neared the plane of the rings less than an hour before closest approach to the planet.

Exhuming South Polar Crater

This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Sept. 7, 2005. Southern Mid-latitudes (Central Tsegihi, Mezzoramia).

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera during the rover's 1,278th Martian day, or sol, (Aug. 28, 2007) to take the images combined into this view. The rover was perched at the lip of Victoria Crater.

Crater and Flows

The Philae lander of Europe's Rosetta mission has returned the first panoramic image from the surface of a comet. The unprocessed panorama from the lander's CIVA-P camera shows a 360-degree view around the point of final touchdown.

This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey of the south pole shows a surface texture called 'thumbprint,' for its uncanny resemblance to human fingerprints.

This VIS image shows part of the margin of the north polar cap and the surrounding plains. The layering of the ice is easily visible due to the dust that is deposited on the top of the ice every year, creating layering over millions of years. Orbit Number 71835 Latitude 83.7224 Longitude 117.158 Instrument VIS Captured 2018-02-23 01 58

Don Manuel Romero de Terreros y Villar-Villamil Attributed to follower of Édouard Pingret (French, 1788-1875). Don Manuel Romero de Terreros y Villar-Villamil, ca. 1865. Oil on paper, mounted on canvas, oval: 26 1/4 x 22 7/8 in. (66.7 x 58.1 cm). In his full-length equestrian portrait, Don Manuel commemorated one of his greatest achievements, the completion of the aqueduct of Tepotzotlán (more commonly known as the Arcos de Sitio) outside Mexico City. Born into one of Mexicos leading Creole families, he had renounced several ancestral titles and associated properties by the time he assumed the role of governor of the Federal District (Mexico City). In his short term, he promoted the establishment of charities, improved local hospitals, and reformed the jails. When Napoleon III installed Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian as puppet emperor of Mexico in 1864, Don Manuel, a staunch Mexican patriot and liberal idealist, immigrated to France. He lived there through Maximilians fall in 1867 (h

This frame from a sequence of images shows a dust-carrying whirlwind, called a dust devil, on lower Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater, as viewed by NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover during the summer afternoon of Feb. 18, 2017.

Spirit's View on Sol 123

This is the first 360-degree panoramic view from NASA's Curiosity rover, taken with the Navigation cameras. Mount Sharp is to the right, and the north Gale Crater rim can be seen at center. The rover's body is in the foreground.

This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows dunes on the floor of an unnamed crater in Terra Sirenum.

Valles Marineris

NASA's rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this full 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings after a drive on the 2,220th Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's mission on Mars (April 22, 2010).

This 360-degree mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the view from the western rim of 'Santa Maria' crater is presented as a vertical projection, with north at the top.

A glass diapositive from the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt showing a game or illustration related to the Jungfrau Railway, highlighting visual elements and composition.

Aerial view of a part of the area affected during the flood disaster of 1953. Note: The description of this photo is not yet complete and will be supplemented on the basis of the data available at a later stage. However, of many photos of the flood disaster 1953, the location is unknown.

Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission have spotted signs of long run-out landslides on Pluto's largest moon, Charon. This perspective view is of Charon's informally named Serenity Chasma.

When NASA's Deep Impact probe collided with Tempel 1, a bright, small flash was created, which rapidly expanded above the surface of the comet. This flash lasted for more than a second.

NASA's Curiosity rover and its parachute were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as Curiosity descended to the surface on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). Curiosity and its parachute are in the small white box at center.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took this 3-D navigation camera mosaic of the crater called 'Bonneville.' 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.

Located at 64 degrees south latitude, the dunes in Wegener Crater are just beginning to lose their frost cover. The 'salt and pepper' appearance is bright frost and dark dune on the crater floor in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey.

The irregularly shaped rim of this bowl shaped impact crater is most likely due to erosion and the subsequent infilling of sediment. THEMIS.

Cydonia: Two Years Later

This image was taken by the Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System, Rosetta's main onboard scientific imaging system, on Sept. 10, 2014. Jets of cometary activity can be seen along almost the entire body of the comet.

Opportunity's View After Long Drive on Sol 1770 (Polar)

This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows Hyperborei Cavi - the low regions on the right side of the image. Dunes are found both in the lows and on the higher region on the left side of the image.

North Twin Peak in Super Resolution

Gusev Dust Devil Movie, Sol 456 (Enhanced)

Snapshot of Southern Spring Dust Storm Activity

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This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA's Curiosity rover revealing surface features including relatively dark dunes, degraded impact craters and other geologic features including small escarpments.

18 Minutes After Beagle 2 Landing

Today's VIS image is Inuvik Crater. Located near the north polar cap, this crater is 20 km (12 miles) in diameter. Sand dunes dominate the floor of the crater and are migrating up the rim and out onto the plains on the right side of the image. Orbit Number 80424 Latitude 78.4191 Longitude 331.665 Instrument VIS Captured 2020-01-31 10 45

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The dunes in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft are part of the dune field that encircles a large portion of the northern pole. There is less sand available in this region of the dune field, resulting in individual dunes rather than the dense

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this stereo view of the rover's surroundings. 3D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.

This 360-degree image shows a complete, full-resolution panorama around NASA's Curiosity rover. The pointy rim of Gale Crater can be seen as a lighter strip along top right of the image. The base of Mount Sharp can be seen along top left.

Hyper Vent-ilating

Aerial view of a part of the area affected during the flood disaster of 1953. Note: The description of this photo is not yet complete and will be supplemented on the basis of the data available at a later stage. However, of many photos of the flood disaster 1953, the location is unknown.

This mosaic of images from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows a panoramic anaglyph of the 'Columbia Hills.' 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.

This image from NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is from the edge of a football-field-size crater informally named 'Santa Maria.' The rover's upraised robotic arm, itself out of view, casts a dragon-shaped shadow in the foreground. 3D glasses are necessary.

Coprates Chasma

JSC2000E01553 (January 2000) --- This USGS elevation model showing increasing elevation as increasing brightness is included here for comparison purposes with the high-resolution topographic elevation map image in E01554. Both images depict the San Bernadino and San Gabriel Mountains in California, north of Los Angeles.

The Philae lander of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission took this self-portrait of the spacecraft on Sept. 7, 2014, at a distance of about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

This image was produced during radar observations taken by NASA's Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar as it flew over the Gulf Stream, Florida, and past the Atlantic Ocean on October 7, 1994.

Opportunity at 'Cook Islands' (Vertical)

This MOC shows buttes and mesas surrounded by sand dunes on the floor of Rabe Crater, Mars. Gullies of uncertain origin cut sand dune surfaces in the top (north) quarter of the scene

Image taken by NASA's EPOXI mission spacecraft during its flyby of comet Hartley 2 on Nov. 4, 2010. The spacecraft came within about 700 kilometers (435 miles) of the comet's nucleus at the time of closest approach.

This is a 3-D version of the first 360-degree view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's position outside 'Eagle Crater.' 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.

Aerial view of a part of the area affected during the flood disaster of 1953. Note: The description of this photo is not yet complete and will be supplemented on the basis of the data available at a later stage. However, of many photos of the flood disaster 1953, the location is unknown.

This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the margin of Olympia Undae.

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The science team of NASA's New Horizons mission has produced an updated global map of the dwarf planet Pluto. The map includes all resolved images of the surface acquired between July 7-14, 2015.

S.A. Andrée, Knut Fraenkel and Nils Strindberg view the pushed polar bear. Designation of the pictures was made by Associate Professor John Hertzberg in photography in 1930, the Technical College.

This stereo view shows the 'Murray Ridge' portion of the western rim of Endeavour Crater on Mars. You need 3D glasses to view this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.

Aerial view of a part of the area affected during the flood disaster of 1953. Note: The description of this photo is not yet complete and will be supplemented on the basis of the data available at a later stage. However, of many photos of the flood disaster 1953, the location is unknown.

Midnight Sun on Mars

jsc2004e20304 - Panorama view of Apollo 17 lunar surface photos for Station 5 at the Taurus-Littrow landing site taken during the second moonwalk of the mission by Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan and lunar module pilot Harrison (Jack) Schmitt. The panoramas were built by combining Apollo 17 images starting with frame AS17-145-22159 through end frame AS17-145-22181. The panoramic images received minimal retouching by NASA imagery specialists, including the removal of lens flares that were problematic in stitching together the individual frames and blacking out the sky to the lunar horizon. These adjustments were made based on observations of the Moon walkers who reported that there are no stars visible in the sky due to the bright lunar surface reflection of the Sun.

The Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander recorded this image of the lander's Robotic Arm enlarging and combining the two trenches informally named 'Dodo' (left) and 'Goldilocks.'

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