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Dec 28, 2021 · NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy since its harrowing touchdown in Mars’ Jezero Crater this past February. In the 10 months since, the car-size rover has driven 1.8 miles (2.9 kilometers), set a record for the longest rover drive in a Martian day, taken more than 100,000 images, and collected six samples of Martian rock and atmosphere that could eventually be brought to Earth for ...
9 hours ago · The rover used its Mastcam instrument to capture the area on the 4,352 Martian day of the pioneering mission. Images of the area from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter had shown light-colored ...
- February 18, 2021: Touchdown! The Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars
- March 18, 2021: Hubble Sees Changing Seasons on Saturn
- April 19, 2021: Ingenuity’s First Flight
- April 26, 2021: Image of Landslide in Klute Crater
- May 10, 2021: OSIRIS-REx Departs Bennu
- June 2, 2021: Venus Mission Selections
- June 7, 2021: Return to Ganymede
- August 11, 2021: OSIRIS-REx Provides Insight Into Asteroid Bennu’S Future Orbit
- September 1, 2021: Perseverance Collects A Sample
- October 16, 2021: Lucy Mission Launches to The Trojan Asteroids
Millions of people watched as Perseverance descended via parachute and jetpack to touch down on the Red Planet, ready to begin its multi-year mission to seek signs of ancient life and collect sampl...
This series of images taken in 2018, 2019, and 2020 by the Hubble Space Telescope shows slight changes in the atmosphere on Saturn’s northern hemisphere as the season changes from summer to fall af...
The Ingenuity helicopter was originally designed as a technology demonstration to test the feasibility of flying in the thin atmosphere of Mars. After being carried to the surface by the Perseveran...
Our Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been at the Moon for over 12 years now and continues to capture incredible images of our natural satellite. In this image from the Narrow Angle Camera, the western wall of Klute crater on the far side of the Moon is slumped towards the crater floor, likely as a result of a nearby moonquake or surface impact even...
For about two years, the OSIRIS-RExspacecraft orbited asteroid Bennu - a rubble-pile in space roughly as tall as the Empire State Building. In October 2020, Bennu descended to the asteroid’s surfac...Images: Before/after images of the Nightingale siteDownloads: Full videos, images and captionsIt’s been over 40 years since NASA sent a spacecraft to Venus and many many members of the planetary science community have long hoped for a mission to our sister planet. Scientists believe that Ve...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft came within 645 miles (1,038 kilometers) of the surface of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. It was the closest a spacecraft had passed by the solar system’s largest natural...
Asteroid Bennu, the destination of our OSIRIS-REx mission, is classified as a hazardous near-Earth asteroid. Much like storms on Earth, we can’t fully predict the paths of asteroids because there a...
On Sept. 1, NASA’s Perseverance rover unfurled its arm, placed a drill bit at the Martian surface, and drilled about 2 inches, or 6 centimeters, down to extract a rock core. The rover later sealed...
On October 16, the Lucy mission launched from Kennedy Space Center. Lucy will travel for six years before it reaches its destination: Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. These planetary building blocks hav...
Feb 18, 2021 · 1280 x 720. Mar 8, 2024. mp4 (74.96 MB) After a seven-month-long journey, NASA’s Perseverance Rover successfully touched down on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California celebrate landing NASA's fifth -- and most ambitious -- rover on Mars.
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Mar 3, 2014 · By moving the Inspiration Mars mission from 2018 to 2021, NASA’s deep-space exploration infrastructure featuring SLS and Orion will have more time for full development and critical testing to ...
Dec 21, 2021 · “At NASA, we turn science fiction into science fact, and we do it daily. From continuing to launch astronauts to the International Space Station from American soil to landing the Perseverance rover on Mars and logging the first flight on another planet, 2021 was a banner year for the world’s premier space agency and all of humanity,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, who was sworn ...
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Sep 23, 2021 · Using its WATSON camera, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie over a rock nicknamed “Rochette,” on Sept.10, 2021, the 198th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Two holes can be seen where the rover used its robotic arm to drill rock core samples. Scientists tap into an array of imagers aboard the six-wheeled explorer to get a ...
