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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is snapping amazing high-resolution self portraits on the Red Planet. A camera on the rover's robotic arm is taking the ultra-sharp images.
The Mars rover Curiosity sent back photos to create a stunning panorama of its 5-year journey on the planet. (Video: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) ...
Moments after the 10:32 p.m. confirmation of the Mars Science Laboratory’s Sunday touchdown on the surface of the Red Planet, the rover known as Curiosity sent back its first grainy black-and ...
CORRECTION: A previous version of this gallery included photos that were not taken by the Curiosity rover.
NASA's Curiosity Rover has been on Mars since 2012, sending back some of the most stunning and detailed images of the Red Planet ever captured. These images not only provide a closer look at Mars' ...
See spectactular views of Mars from NASA's Curiosity rover released the week of Aug. 27,2012.
The Mars Descent Imager (MARDI), a camera on board the Curiosity designed to take photos during the descent to Mars, took this image of the heat shield plummeting to the Martian surface.
Over the last few days, Curiosity has finally booted up its two high-resolution, full-color mast cameras: Mastcam 34 and Mastcam 100. Curiosity has also taken its first steps towards detecting ...
The first pictures from the best cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover document a Martian landscape so Earthlike it reminds scientists of home. "The first impression that you get is how Earthlike this ...
Enough of these dusty and low-quality Mars images. Here's the first high-resolution image from the Curiosity rover's Navigation Cameras (NavCams), showing a flat Martian landscape with the looming ...
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is doing a bit of mechanical navel-gazing on the Red Planet, snapping ultra-clear pictures of itself while testing a powerful camera at the tip of its robotic arm. The ...