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Mars Rover Curiosity: 1st Drive Panorama
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took this panorama on Mars on Aug. 22, 2012, just after its first test drive. The landing site has been named "Bradbury Landing" in honor of the late sci-fi author Ray Bradbury.
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Bradbury Landing on Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took this image its landing site "Bradbury Landing" on Aug. 22, 2012, after a successful test drive. The landing site is named in honor of the late science fiction author Ray Bradbury, and taken on what would have been his 92nd birthday.
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Curiosity's Tire Tracks on Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This image was taken by Navcam: Right A (NAV_RIGHT_A) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 16 (2012-08-22 15:03:56 UTC).
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Curiosity Tire Tracks and Identifying Markings
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This image was taken by Navcam: Left A (NAV_LEFT_A) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 16 (2012-08-22 15:16:35 UTC).
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Curiosity's Tire Tracks and Distant Martian Landscape
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This image was taken by Navcam: Left A (NAV_LEFT_A) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 16 (2012-08-22 15:01:28 UTC).
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Curiosity's Tracks on Mars Spell Out 'JPL'
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Tracks from the Mars rover Curiosity's first test drive include the name of its maker, "JPL," spelled out in Morse code.
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Curiosity's Tire Tracks on Mars with Horizon in Distance
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This image was taken by Navcam: Left A (NAV_LEFT_A) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 16 (2012-08-22 15:00:53 UTC).
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Curiosity's Wheel Moving
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This still from a set of images shows the movement of the front left wheel of NASA's Curiosity as rover drivers turned the wheels in place at the landing site on Mars. Engineers wiggled the wheels as a test of the rover's steering and anticipate embarking on Curiosity's first drive in the next couple of days. This image was taken by one of Curiosity's Navigation cameras on Aug. 21, 2012.
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Curiosity's View From Below
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Curiosity engineering team created this view from images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover front hazard avoidance cameras underneath the rover deck on Sol 0. Image released August 17, 2012.
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Curiosity Mars Rover Laser Burns on Goulburn
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This photo mosaic shows the scour mark, dubbed Goulburn, left by the thrusters on the sky crane that helped lower NASA's Curiosity rover to the Red Planet. Released on Aug. 22, 2012.
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A View From Below the Rover Deck
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Curiosity engineering team created this view from images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover rear hazard avoidance cameras underneath the rover deck on Sol 0. Image released on August 17, 2012.
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End of Curiosity's Extended Arm
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This image from NASA's Curiosity shows the turret of tools at the end of the rover's extended robotic arm on Aug. 20, 2012. The Navigation Camera captured this view.
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Part of Curiosity's Outstretched Arm
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This image from NASA's Curiosity shows the elbow joint of the rover's extended robotic arm on Aug. 20, 2012. The Navigation Camera captured this view.
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Curiosity Rover Panorama Including Mount Sharp Heights
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
With the addition of four high-resolution Navigation Camera, or Navcam, images, taken on Aug. 18, 2012 (Sol 12), Curiosity's 360-degree landing-site panorama now includes the highest point on Mount Sharp visible from the rover.
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Landing Traces
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This mosaic image shows part of the left side of NASA's Curiosity rover and two blast marks from the descent stage's rocket engines. The images that were used to make the mosaic were obtained by the rover's Navigation cameras on Aug. 7, 2012 PDT (Aug. 8 EDT).
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Sample Weather Report
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CAB(CSIC-INTA)
This screen grab shows a sample of the kinds of Mars weather reports we will be getting from NASA's Curiosity rover. It is taken from the website http://cab.inta-csic.es/rems/marsweather.html, which will use data from Curiosity's Rover Environmental Monitoring Station.
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"Coronation" Rock on Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/LANL
This mosaic image with a close-up inset, taken prior to the test, shows the rock chosen as the first target for NASA's Curiosity rover to zap with its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument. ChemCam fired its laser at the fist-sized rock, called "Coronation" (previously “N165”), with the purpose of analyzing the glowing, ionized gas, called plasma, that the laser excites. Image released August 19, 2012.
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First Laser-Tested Rock on Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP
This composite image, with magnified insets, depicts the first laser test by the Chemistry and Camera, or ChemCam, instrument aboard NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. The test took place on August 19, 2012.
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Curiosity's 360-Degree View
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
