Curiosity Rover’s Tracks from Space
NASA’s Curiosity rover tracks from the first drives are visible in this image captured by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA‘s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Two Alien Lifeforms on Mars?
Detailed observation in Curiosity‘s high resolution from the Red Plant, claims to see alien life. In this latest video you can “see” two possible lifeforms discovered in the new pictures of Mount Sharp, Gales Crater on Mars. Scroll down for video
Nasa releases first high-res colour images of the Red Planet
This high-resolution color picture shows the base of Mount Sharp, the Curiosity rover’s eventual destination on Mars. A chapter of the layered geological history of Mars is laid bare in this postcard from NASA’s Curiosity rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Conjunction Colours
During the past week, nightfall on planet Earth has featured Mars, Saturn, and Spica in a lovely conjunction near the western horizon. Still forming the corners of a distinctive celestial triangle after sunset and recently joined by a crescent Moon, they are all about the same brightness but can exhibit different colors to the discerning eye. Image credit: Phil Hart, Shooting Stars eBook
Mars Interior
Artist rendition of the formation of rocky bodies in the solar system – how they form and differentiate and evolve into terrestrial planets. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
First 360-degree panorama from Mars
This image is a part of the first 360-degree panorama in color of the Gale Crater landing site taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover. The thumbnail images were taken on Aug. 9, 2012, by the 34-millimeter Mast Camera. Click at the image after the jump, to see the panorama in Full size. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Blue Dunes of Mars
This image taken from HiRISE instrument aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a variety of different dune types in southern Lyot Crater in the Northern lowlands at 48.9 degrees north, on Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The scale of Mars’s moon Phobos
This astounding image made by Ludovic Celle shows Phobos, the largest moon of Mars (the other one being Deimos), imposed over the French city of Grenoble in the Alpes. Image credit: Ludovic Celle / davinci-marsdesign
A Hole in Mars
The hole was discovered by chance on images taken by the HiRISE instrument aboard the robotic Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, of the dusty slopes of Mars‘ Pavonis Mons volcano. Image Credit: NASA, JPL, U. Arizona
Panoramic view of Mars
This image is a part from a full-circle panoramic view of Mars, taken by the camera on the Opportunity rover over a four-month period. The whole panorama is composed by 817 images, showing new rover tracks and the rover’s solar arrays, on an old impact crater. Image credit: NASA
