Tackling the Challenge of Mars This artist’s scoreboard displays a fictional game between Mars and Earth, with Mars in the lead. It refers to the success rate of sending missions to Mars, both as orbiters and landers. Of the previous 39 missions targeted for M... More »
This graphic shows the locations of the cameras on NASA’s Curiosity rover. The rover’s mast features seven cameras: the Remote Micro Imager, part of the Chemistry and Camera suite; four black-and-white Navigation Cameras (two on the left and two on the right) ... More »
JPL’s Mission Support Area (MSA), shown in this panorama, will be the hub of activity on Aug. 5 as mission team members monitor the careful and intricate entry, descent and landing of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars. Visit http://bit.ly/mslmsa to explore the ro... More »
This is one of the first images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | › Curiosity latest images NASA’s most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red ... More »
Communicating with Curiosity This artist’s still shows how NASA’s Curiosity rover will communicate with Earth during landing. As the rover descends to the surface of Mars, it will send out two different types of data: basic radio-frequency tones that go direct... More »
Curiosity’s Heat Shield in View This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA’s Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). The image was obtained by the Mars Descent Imager instrument known as MARDI and shows the 15... More »
This is one of the first images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | › Curiosity latest images About two hours after landing on Mars and beaming back its first... More »
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Image This imagery is being released in association with NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. This is a temporary caption to be replaced as soon as more information is available. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | › Images image... More »
The mood in von Karman Auditorium at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) late Sunday night was overwhelmingly, almost deliriously, celebratory. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, Curiosity, touched down safely on Mars at 10:32 p.m. PDT and minutes later ... More »
An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot-wide (almost 16 meter) parachute as it descended towards its landing site at Gale... More »
The “seven minutes of terror” are over, and members of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team have finally let out a collective sigh of relief. The newest Mars rover, Curiosity, touched down successfully on the red planet on Sunday night and is now parked, ... More »
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), a rover known as Curiosity, is scheduled to land on the surface of the Red Planet on Sunday, August 5. Curiosity should actually touch down around 10:17 p.m. PDT, but with nearly 14 minutes of radio-transmission time betwe... More »
