Mars Rocks
This image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter‘s HiRISE camera, sowing a region of Mars near Nili Fossae, with part of the ejecta from an impact crater. Contains some of the best exposures of ancient bedrock on Mars. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror
In this video by the team members at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, you can see the incredible engineering of the Curiosity Mars rover‘s final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars. The car-sized rover will land on the Red Planet in August.
Layered Bedrock in Nili Fossae, Mars
In this image from HIRISE sattelite, we can see the Nili Fossae region contains some of the best exposures of ancient bedrock on Mars. Image credit NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Weird Lava flows on Mars
In this image we can see more than a dozen lava coils in a volcanic region on Mars, named Cerberus Palus that is about 500 meters wide. Image taken from HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit NASA
Best of Hubble- 22 Years in images
On 24 April 1990, NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space.
To celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope this month, episode 54 of the Hubblecast gives a slideshow of some of the best images from over two decades in orbit, set to specially commissioned music. credit: ESA/Hubble
Barchan sand dunes on Mars
This image from HiRISE, on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows two flat top mesas in southern Mars when the season was changing from Spring to Summer. Images Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA
Elephant Face on Mars
A new photo taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, highlights terrain that looks like an elephant. Image credit NASA / JPL / Univ. of Arizona
Crater with Gullies on Mars
The 40-kilometer diameter unnamed crater in this image from HiRISE is located west of Lyot Crater and north of Deuteronilus Mensae in the Northern Plains of Mars. NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Earth’s magnetic field is protecting us
This artist’s impression shows how the solar wind shapes the magnetospheres of Venus (top), Earth (middle) and Mars (bottom). Earth has an internal magnetic field which makes its magnetosphere bigger (unlike Venus and Mars). The lines coming out of the Sun symbolise the outward propagation of the solar wind (planet’s distances are not shown to scale). Credits: ESA
Dust Devil on Mars (video)
NASA’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured in Amazonis Planitia region of northern Mars, a twisting column of dust or dust devil, more than half a mile (800 meters) high and about 30 meters in diameter on Feb. 16, 2012.
