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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Center Director Jim Kennedy and Hortense Burt, with the Education Office at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, greet a student at South Plantation High School in Plantation, Fla. Kennedy, Burt and other Kennedy representatives are visiting the NASA Explorer School (NES) to share the vision for space exploration with the next generation. Astronaut Roger Crouch joined the Kennedy team. During the visit, Crouch is talking with students about our destiny as explorers, NASA's stepping stone approach to exploring Earth, the moon, Mars and beyond, how space impacts our lives, and how people and machines rely on each other in space. The Agency's NES program establishes a three-year partnership annually between NASA and 50 NASA Explorer School teams, consisting of teachers and education administrators from diverse communities nationwide. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston KSC-06pd0355

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Center Director Jim Kennedy and Hortense...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Center Director Jim Kennedy and Hortense Burt, with the Education Office at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, greet a student at South Plantation High School in Plantation, Fla. Kenned... More

Dunes on Plains, 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey images

Dunes on Plains, 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey images

These dunes are located on the plains around Doanus Vallis as seen by NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft. NASA/JPL/ASU

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - KSC Deputy Director Dr. Woodrow Whitlow Jr. signs autographs for students at Gainesville Elementary School, a NASA Explorer School in Gainesville, Ga. Whitlow accompanied Jim Jennings, deputy associate administrator for Institutions and Asset Management at NASA Headquarters, who visited the school to share the new vision for space exploration with the next generation of explorers. Whitlow talked with students about our destiny as explorers, NASA’s stepping stone approach to exploring Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond, how space impacts our lives, and how people and machines rely on each other in space. KSC-04pd2019

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - KSC Deputy Director Dr. Woodrow Whitlow ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - KSC Deputy Director Dr. Woodrow Whitlow Jr. signs autographs for students at Gainesville Elementary School, a NASA Explorer School in Gainesville, Ga. Whitlow accompanied Jim Jenn... More

Zond 2. NASA public domain image colelction.

Zond 2. NASA public domain image colelction.

Description: (1965) Zond 2 was an automatic interplanetary station launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (64-078A) in Earth parking orbit towards Mars to test space-borne systems and to carry out scientific investi... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane lowers the backshell with the Phoenix Mars Lander inside toward a spin table for spin testing in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The Phoenix mission is the first project in NASA's first openly competed program of Mars Scout missions. Phoenix will land in icy soils near the north polar permanent ice cap of Mars and explore the history of the water in these soils and any associated rocks, while monitoring polar climate. Landing is planned in May 2008 on arctic ground where a mission currently in orbit, Mars Odyssey, has detected high concentrations of ice just beneath the top layer of soil. It will serve as NASA's first exploration of a potential modern habitat on Mars and open the door to a renewed search for carbon-bearing compounds, last attempted with NASA’s Viking missions in the 1970s. A stereo color camera and a weather station will study the surrounding environment while the other instruments check excavated soil samples for water, organic chemicals and conditions that could indicate whether the site was ever hospitable to life. Microscopes can reveal features as small as one one-thousandth the width of a human hair. Launch of Phoenix aboard a Delta II rocket is targeted for Aug. 3 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/George Shelton KSC-07pd1093

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane lowers the backshell w...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane lowers the backshell with the Phoenix Mars Lander inside toward a spin table for spin testing in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The Phoenix mission is ... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft undergoes spin testing. The Phoenix mission is the first project in NASA's first openly competed program of Mars Scout missions. Phoenix will land in icy soils near the north polar permanent ice cap of Mars and explore the history of the water in these soils and any associated rocks, while monitoring polar climate. Landing is planned in May 2008 on arctic ground where a mission currently in orbit, Mars Odyssey, has detected high concentrations of ice just beneath the top layer of soil. It will serve as NASA's first exploration of a potential modern habitat on Mars and open the door to a renewed search for carbon-bearing compounds, last attempted with NASA’s Viking missions in the 1970s. A stereo color camera and a weather station will study the surrounding environment while the other instruments check excavated soil samples for water, organic chemicals and conditions that could indicate whether the site was ever hospitable to life. Microscopes can reveal features as small as one one-thousandth the width of a human hair. Launch of Phoenix aboard a Delta II rocket is targeted for Aug. 3 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/George Shelton KSC-07pd1100

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Fac...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft undergoes spin testing. The Phoenix mission is the first project in NASA's first openly competed p... More

Phoenix Mars Lander Spacecraft Heat Shield Installation

Phoenix Mars Lander Spacecraft Heat Shield Installation

In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft undergoes spin testing. The Phoenix mission is the first project in NASA's first openly competed program of Mars Scout missions. P... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, workers oversee the offloading of the crated Phoenix spacecraft inside the cargo hold of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III. The crate will be transported to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The Phoenix mission is the first project in NASA's first openly competed program of Mars Scout missions. Phoenix will land in icy soils near the north polar permanent ice cap of Mars and explore the history of the water in these soils and any associated rocks, while monitoring polar climate. Landing is planned in May 2008 on arctic ground where a mission currently in orbit, Mars Odyssey, has detected high concentrations of ice just beneath the top layer of soil. It will serve as NASA's first exploration of a potential modern habitat on Mars and open the door to a renewed search for carbon-bearing compounds, last attempted with NASA’s Viking missions in the 1970s. A stereo color camera and a weather station will study the surrounding environment while the other instruments check excavated soil samples for water, organic chemicals and conditions that could indicate whether the site was ever hospitable to life. Microscopes can reveal features as small as one one-thousandth the width of a human hair. Launch of Phoenix aboard a Delta II rocket is targeted for Aug. 3 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Charisse Nahser KSC-07pd1057

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landi...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility, workers oversee the offloading of the crated Phoenix spacecraft inside the cargo hold of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III.... More

Odyssey/White Rock, 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey images

Odyssey/White Rock, 2001 NASA Mars Odyssey images

These Mars Odyssey images show the White Rock feature on Mars in both infrared left and visible right wavelengths. White Rock is the unofficial name for this landform that was first observed during NASA Mariner... More

Landing Accuracy on Mars: A Historical Perspective

Landing Accuracy on Mars: A Historical Perspective

This image illustrates how spacecraft landings on Mars have become more and more precise over the years. Since NASA first Mars landing of Viking in 1976, the targeted landing regions, or ellipses, have shrunk. ... More

Opportunity View After 72-Meter Drive, Sol 1912

Opportunity View After 72-Meter Drive, Sol 1912

NASA Opportunity had driven 72.3 meters southward 237 feet that sol. Engineers drove the rover backward as a strategy to counteract an increase in the amount of current drawn by the drive motor of the right-fro... More

Rover Panorama Taken Amid Murray Buttes on Mars

Rover Panorama Taken Amid Murray Buttes on Mars

Original Caption Released with Image: This 360-degree panorama was acquired by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover while the rover was in an area called "Murray Buttes" on lower Mount ... More

Opportunity View After 72-Meter Drive, Sol 1912 Polar

Opportunity View After 72-Meter Drive, Sol 1912 Polar

NASA Opportunity had driven 72.3 meters southward 237 feet that sol. Engineers drove the rover backward as a strategy to counteract an increase in the amount of current drawn by the drive motor of the right-fro... More

Dust Devil West of Spirit, Sol 1913 Stereo

Dust Devil West of Spirit, Sol 1913 Stereo

The navigation camera on NASA Spirit caught this stereo view of a dust devil during the on May 21, 2009. The view is to the west from Spirit position at the Troy location where Spirit had become embedded a few ... More

Exploration Imagery. NASA public domain image colelction.

Exploration Imagery. NASA public domain image colelction.

(May 28, 1985) This artist's concept depicts the hardware NASA astronauts might use on a crewed mission to the Red Planet. The artist, Pat Rawlings, depicts Pavonis Mons, a large shield volcano on Mars' equator... More

Viking History of Water on Mars Composite Study done by Chris McKay, Ames Scientist. Art by Michael Carroll ARC-1969-AC90-0559-4

Viking History of Water on Mars Composite Study done by Chris McKay, A...

Viking History of Water on Mars Composite Study done by Chris McKay, Ames Scientist. Art by Michael Carroll

Virtual Environment Telepresence workstation, simulated Mars Exploration shows Lewis Hitchner with virtual helmet and EXOS Dexterous interface (virtual hand) ARC-1992-AC92-0326-20

Virtual Environment Telepresence workstation, simulated Mars Explorati...

Virtual Environment Telepresence workstation, simulated Mars Exploration shows Lewis Hitchner with virtual helmet and EXOS Dexterous interface (virtual hand)

STS070-391-016 - STS-070 - Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise with Mars and Venus rising

STS070-391-016 - STS-070 - Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise with Mars and Venus rising. The rising of Mars and Venus are captured in frame. Subject Terms: STS-70, DISCO... More

STS070-391-035 - STS-070 - Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise with Mars and Venus rising

STS070-391-035 - STS-070 - Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise with Mars and Venus rising. In this frame, the sun has risen over the horizon and glares in the camera. Subj... More

STS070-391-014 - STS-070 - Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise with Mars and Venus rising

STS070-391-014 - STS-070 - Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise with Mars and Venus rising. Subject Terms: STS-70, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH LIMB, EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM... More

STS070-391-031 - STS-070 - Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise with Mars and Venus rising

STS070-391-031 - STS-070 - Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise with Mars and Venus rising. Subject Terms: STS-70, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH LIMB, EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM... More

STS070-391-018 - STS-070 - Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise with Mars and Venus rising

STS070-391-018 - STS-070 - Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise with Mars and Venus rising. The rising of Mars and Venus are captured in frame. Subject Terms: STS-70, DISCO... More

STS070-391-030 - STS-070 - Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise with Mars and Venus rising

STS070-391-030 - STS-070 - Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise ...

The original finding aid described this as: Description: Views of earth limb horizon during sunrise with Mars and Venus rising. Subject Terms: STS-70, DISCOVERY (ORBITER), EARTH LIMB, EARTH OBSERVATIONS (FROM... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC, installation is under way of the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The MOC is one of a suite of six scientific instruments that will gather data about Martian topography, mineral distribution and weather during a two-year period. The Mars Global Surveyor is slated for launch aboard a Delta II expendable launch vehicle on Nov. 6, the beginning of a 20-day launch period.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facil...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC, installation is under way of the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The MOC is one of a suite of... More

A McDonnell Douglas DELTA II Space Launch Vehicle successfully launched the NASA Mars pathfinder into orbit from Complex 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Station at 1:58 A.M. EST today

A McDonnell Douglas DELTA II Space Launch Vehicle successfully launche...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Rvits Still Image Laboratory ... More

Hubble's Sharpest View of Mars. NASA public domain image colelction.

Hubble's Sharpest View of Mars. NASA public domain image colelction.

Description: (March 10, 1997) The recently refurbished Hubble telescope obtained the sharpest view of Mars ever taken from Earth. This stunning portrait was taken with March 10, 1997, just before the Red Planet... More

Big Joe in the Chryse Planitia. NASA public domain image colelction.

Big Joe in the Chryse Planitia. NASA public domain image colelction.

Big Joe in the Chryse Planitia NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Large Boulders at Landing Site. NASA public domain image colelction.

Large Boulders at Landing Site. NASA public domain image colelction.

Large boulders are visible in this enlargement of pictures taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) lander camera on July 4, 1997. The landing site is in the dry flood channel named Ares Valles. The boulde... More

Airbags and Sojourner Rover, Mars Pathfinder Images

Airbags and Sojourner Rover, Mars Pathfinder Images

This image from the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) camera shows the rear part of the Sojourner rover, the rolled-up rear ramp, and portions of the partially deflated airbags. The Alpha Proton X-ray Spectromet... More

Rover, Airbags, & Surrounding Rocks, Mars Pathfinder Images

Rover, Airbags, & Surrounding Rocks, Mars Pathfinder Images

This image of the Martian surface was taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) before sunset on July 4, 1997 (Sol 1), the spacecraft's first day on Mars. The airbags have been partially retracted, and port... More

Rover Touchdown on Martian Surface

Rover Touchdown on Martian Surface

This picture taken by the IMP (Imager for Mars Pathfinder) aboard the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft depicts the rover Sojourner's position after driving onto the Martian surface. Sojourner has become the first aut... More

Pathfinder Ramp Deploy Image, Mars Pathfinder Images

Pathfinder Ramp Deploy Image, Mars Pathfinder Images

Mars Pathfinder's forward rover ramp can be seen successfully unfurled in this image, taken at the end of Sol 2 by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP). This ramp was not used for the deployment of the microrov... More

A Rover Wheel in Soil - Color. NASA public domain image colelction.

A Rover Wheel in Soil - Color. NASA public domain image colelction.

A Rover Wheel in Soil - Color NASA/JPL

Sojourner APXS at Work, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner APXS at Work, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner APXS at Work NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sojourner near Barnacle, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner near Barnacle, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner near Barnacle NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Forward Ramp and Twin Peaks - 3-D

Forward Ramp and Twin Peaks - 3-D

Many prominent rocks near the Sagan Memorial Station are featured in this image, from NASA Mars Pathfinder. Flat Top and Little Flat Top are at center. 3-D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail. NASA/JPL

Sojourner, Barnacle Bill, Yogi, & Couch

Sojourner, Barnacle Bill, Yogi, & Couch

This area of terrain near the Sagan Memorial Station was taken by NASA Mars Pathfinder. The curved rock dubbed Couch. 3D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail. NASA/JPL

Diversity of Soils near Rover Deploy Region

Diversity of Soils near Rover Deploy Region

Diversity of Soils near Rover Deploy Region NASA/JPL/Johns Hopkins University

Three Classes of Martian rocks. NASA public domain image colelction.

Three Classes of Martian rocks. NASA public domain image colelction.

Three Classes of Martian rocks NASA/JPL/Johns Hopkins University Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sojourner at "Mermaid Dune", Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner at "Mermaid Dune", Mars Pathfinder Images

This is an image of the rover Sojourner at the feature called Mermaid Dune at the MPF landing site. Mermaid is thought to be a low, transverse dune ridge, with its long (approximately 2 meters) axis transverse ... More

Diverse Rock Named Squash, Mars Pathfinder Images

Diverse Rock Named Squash, Mars Pathfinder Images

Diverse Rock Named Squash NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Atmospheric Pressure During Landing, Mars Pathfinder Images

Atmospheric Pressure During Landing, Mars Pathfinder Images

Atmospheric Pressure During Landing NASA/JPL

Dust Devil Schematic, Mars Pathfinder Images

Dust Devil Schematic, Mars Pathfinder Images

Dust Devil Schematic NASA/JPL Public domain photograph related to NASA research activity, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sojourner at Wedge, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner at Wedge, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner at Wedge NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

MGS Approach Image - 172.4° W Longitude

MGS Approach Image - 172.4° W Longitude

MGS Approach Image - 172.4° W Longitude NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

New View of Twin Peaks Region. NASA public domain image colelction.

New View of Twin Peaks Region. NASA public domain image colelction.

New View of Twin Peaks Region NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sojourner Farthest Journey, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner Farthest Journey, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sojourner Farthest Journey NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of planet Mars surface, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

3000 Mile Laser Altimeter Profile Across Northern Hemisphere of Mars

3000 Mile Laser Altimeter Profile Across Northern Hemisphere of Mars

3000 Mile Laser Altimeter Profile Across Northern Hemisphere of Mars NASA/JPL/GSFC

Sockets and Pebbles, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sockets and Pebbles, Mars Pathfinder Images

Sockets and Pebbles NASA/JPL/USGS

360-degree Color Panorama, Mars Pathfinder Images

360-degree Color Panorama, Mars Pathfinder Images

360-degree Color Panorama NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Passes

Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Passes

Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Passes NASA/JPL/GSFC

Magnetic Anomalies on Mars, NASA Mars Images

Magnetic Anomalies on Mars, NASA Mars Images

Magnetic Anomalies on Mars NASA/JPL/GSFC Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Regional View of Mars on Orbit 63

A Regional View of Mars on Orbit 63

A Regional View of Mars on Orbit 63 NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

MOC View of Mars98 Landing Zone - 12/24/97

MOC View of Mars98 Landing Zone - 12/24/97

MOC View of Mars98 Landing Zone - 12/24/97 NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Cydonia Region - Pass #2, NASA Mars Images

Cydonia Region - Pass #2, NASA Mars Images

Cydonia Region - Pass #2 NASA/JPL/MSSS

Hubble Look at Mars Shows Canyon Dust Storm, Cloudy Conditions for Pathfinder Landing

Hubble Look at Mars Shows Canyon Dust Storm, Cloudy Conditions for Pat...

Hubble Look at Mars Shows Canyon Dust Storm, Cloudy Conditions for Pathfinder Landing JPL/NASA/STScI

Springtime Dust Storm Swirls at Martian North Pole

Springtime Dust Storm Swirls at Martian North Pole

Springtime Dust Storm Swirls at Martian North Pole JPL/NASA/STScI

West Candor Chasm Enhanced Color

West Candor Chasm Enhanced Color

This picture from NASA's Viking Orbiter 2 shows areas of central Valles Marineris, Mars, including Candor Chasm lower left, Ophir Chasm lower right, and Hebes Chasm upper right. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.go... More

MC-1 Mare Boreum Region. NASA public domain image colelction.

MC-1 Mare Boreum Region. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mars digital-image mosaic merged with color of the MC-1 quadrangle, Mare Boreum region of Mars. This image is from NASA's Viking Orbiter 1. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00161 NASA/JPL/USGS

Mars Mc-9 Tharsis Region, NASA Viking Images

Mars Mc-9 Tharsis Region, NASA Viking Images

Mars digital-image mosaic merged with color of the MC-9 quadrangle, Tharsis region of Mars. This image is from NASA's Viking Orbiter 1. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00169 NASA/JPL/USGS

MC-11 Oxia Palus Region. NASA public domain image colelction.

MC-11 Oxia Palus Region. NASA public domain image colelction.

Mars digital-image mosaic merged with color of the MC-11 quadrangle, Oxia Palus region of Mars. This image is from NASA's Viking Orbiter 1. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00171 NASA/JPL/USGS

Mars MC-16 Memnonia Region, NASA Viking Images

Mars MC-16 Memnonia Region, NASA Viking Images

Mars digital-image mosaic merged with color of the MC-16 quadrangle, Memnonia region of Mars. This image is from NASA's Viking Orbiter 1. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00176 NASA/JPL/USGS

Mars Hadriaca Patera, NASA Viking Images

Mars Hadriaca Patera, NASA Viking Images

Hadriaca Patera http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00415 NASA/JPL/USGS Public domain photograph of planet Mars surface, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mars Tyrrhena Patera, NASA Viking Images

Mars Tyrrhena Patera, NASA Viking Images

A color image of the Tyrrhena Patera Region of Mars; north toward top. The scene shows a central circular depression surrounded by circular fractures and highly dissected horizontal sheets. A patera (Latin for ... More

Barnacle Bill in Super Resolution from Super Panorama

Barnacle Bill in Super Resolution from Super Panorama

"Barnacle Bill" is a small rock immediately west-northwest of the Mars Pathfinder lander and was the first rock visited by the Sojourner Rover's alpha proton X-ray spectrometer (APXS) instrument. This image sho... More

Boo Boo in Super Resolution from Super Panorama

Boo Boo in Super Resolution from Super Panorama

This view of Boo Boo was produced by combining the Super Panorama frames from the IMP camera from NASA Mars Pathfinder lander. 3D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail. NASA/JPL

The Mars Climate Orbiter is lifted clear of the top of its container in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-2 (SAEF-2). The Mars Climate Orbiter is heading for Mars where it will primarily support its companion Mars Polar Lander spacecraft, planned for launch on Jan. 3, 1999. After that, the Mars Climate Orbiter's instruments will monitor the Martian atmosphere and image the planet's surface on a daily basis for one Martian year (two Earth years). It will observe the appearance and movement of atmospheric dust and water vapor, as well as characterize seasonal changes on the surface. The detailed images of the surface features will provide important clues to the planet's early climate history and give scientists more information about possible liquid water reserves beneath the surface. The scheduled launch date for the Mars Climate Orbiter is Dec. 10, 1998, on a Boeing Delta II 7425 rocket KSC-98pc1080

The Mars Climate Orbiter is lifted clear of the top of its container i...

The Mars Climate Orbiter is lifted clear of the top of its container in the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-2 (SAEF-2). The Mars Climate Orbiter is heading for Mars where it will primarily suppor... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-2 (SAEF-2), technicians test the science instruments and the basic spacecraft subsystems on the Mars Polar Lander. The solar-powered spacecraft is targeted for launch from Cape Canaveral Air Station aboard a Delta II rocket on Jan. 3, 1999. It is designed to touch down on the Martian surface near the northern-most boundary of the south pole in order to study the water cycle there. The lander also will help scientists learn more about climate change and current resources on Mars, studying such things as frost, dust, water vapor and condensates in the Martian atmosphere KSC-98pc1337

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsula...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-2 (SAEF-2), technicians test the science instruments and the basic spacecraft subsystems on the Mars Polar Lander. The solar-p... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility -2 (SAEF-2), JPL workers prepare to mount a Mars microprobe onto the Mars Polar Lander. Two microprobes will hitchhike on the lander, scheduled to be launched Jan. 3, 1999, aboard a Delta II rocket. The solar-powered spacecraft is designed to touch down on the Martian surface near the northern-most boundary of the south pole in order to study the water cycle there. The lander also will help scientists learn more about climate change and current resources on Mars, studying such things as frost, dust, water vapor and condensates in the Martian atmosphere. The Mars microprobes, called Deep Space 2, are part of NASA's New Millennium Program. They will complement the climate-related scientific focus of the lander by demonstrating an advanced, rugged microlaser system for detecting subsurface water. Such data on polar subsurface water, in the form of ice, should help put limits on scientific projections for the global abundance of water on Mars KSC-98pc1647

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsula...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility -2 (SAEF-2), JPL workers prepare to mount a Mars microprobe onto the Mars Polar Lander. Two microprobes will hitchhike on the ... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility -2 (SAEF-2), workers check on the fitting between the Mars Climate Orbiter (above) and the third stage of the Boeing Delta II launch vehicle (below). The third stage is a solid-propellant Thiokol Star 48B booster, the same final stage used in the 1996 launch of Mars Global Surveyor. Targeted for launch on Dec. 10, 1998, the orbiter is heading for Mars where it will primarily support its companion Mars Polar Lander spacecraft, which is planned for launch on Jan. 3, 1999. The orbiter's instruments will monitor the Martian atmosphere and image the planet's surface on a daily basis for 687 Earth days. It will observe the appearance and movement of atmospheric dust and water vapor, as well as characterize seasonal changes on the surface. The detailed images of the surface features will provide important clues to the planet's early climate history and give scientists more information about possible liquid water reserves beneath the surface KSC-98pc1736

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsula...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility -2 (SAEF-2), workers check on the fitting between the Mars Climate Orbiter (above) and the third stage of the Boeing Delta II ... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers remove the canister surrounding the Mars Climate Orbiter. Targeted for liftoff on Dec. 10, 1998, aboard a Boeing Delta II (7425) rocket, the orbiter will be the first spacecraft to be launched in the pair of Mars '98 missions. After its arrival at the red planet, the Mars Climate Orbiter will be used primarily to support its companion Mars Polar Lander spacecraft, scheduled for launch on Jan. 3, 1999. The orbiter will then monitor the Martian atmosphere and image the planet's surface on a daily basis for one Martian year, the equivalent of about two Earth years. The spacecraft will observe the appearance and movement of atmospheric dust and water vapor, and characterize seasonal changes on the planet's surface KSC-98pc1813

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Ai...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers remove the canister surrounding the Mars Climate Orbiter. Targeted for liftoff on Dec. 10, 1998, aboard a Boeing Delta II... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Station, the protective covering on the Mars Polar Lander is lifted up and out of the way. The lander, in the opening below, is being mated to the Boeing Delta II rocket that will launch it on Jan. 3, 1999. The lander is a solar-powered spacecraft designed to touch down on the Martian surface near the northern-most boundary of the south pole in order to study the water cycle there. The lander also will help scientists learn more about climate change and current resources on Mars, studying such things as frost, dust, water vapor and condensates in the Martian atmosphere. It is the second spacecraft to be launched in a pair of Mars Surveyor'98 missions. The first is the Mars Climate Orbiter, which was launched aboard a Delta II rocket from Launch Complex 17A on Dec. 11, 1998 KSC-98pc1889

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Ai...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Station, the protective covering on the Mars Polar Lander is lifted up and out of the way. The lander, in the opening below, is being mate... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers begin fitting the fairing around the upper stages of the Boeing Delta II rocket and Mars Polar Lander. The rocket is scheduled to launch Jan. 3, 1999. The lander is a solar-powered spacecraft designed to touch down on the Martian surface near the northern-most boundary of the south pole in order to study the water cycle there. The lander also will help scientists learn more about climate change and current resources on Mars, studying such things as frost, dust, water vapor and condensates in the Martian atmosphere. It is the second spacecraft to be launched in a pair of Mars Surveyor '98 missions KSC-98pc1925

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Ai...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Station, workers begin fitting the fairing around the upper stages of the Boeing Delta II rocket and Mars Polar Lander. The rocket is sche... More

The Martian North Polar Cap in Summer

The Martian North Polar Cap in Summer

This is a wide angle view of the martian north polar cap as it appeared to the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) in early northern summer. The picture was acquired on March 13, 1999, near the... More

Martian "Swiss Cheese", NASA Mars Images

Martian "Swiss Cheese", NASA Mars Images

This image is illuminated by sunlight from the upper left. Looking like pieces of sliced and broken swiss cheese, the upper layer of the martian south polar residual cap has been eroded, leaving flat-topped me... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Silhouetted against the gray sky, a Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle with NASA's Mars Polar Lander lifts off from Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Station, at 3:21:10 p.m. EST. The lander is a solar-powered spacecraft designed to touch down on the Martian surface near the northern-most boundary of the south polar cap, which consists of carbon dioxide ice. The lander will study the polar water cycle, frosts, water vapor, condensates and dust in the Martian atmosphere. It is equipped with a robotic arm to dig beneath the layered terrain at the polar cap. In addition, Deep Space 2 microprobes, developed by NASA's New Millennium Program, are installed on the lander's cruise stage. After crashing into the planet's surface, they will conduct two days of soil and water experiments up to 1 meter (3 feet) below the Martian surface, testing new technologies for future planetary descent probes. The lander is the second spacecraft to be launched in a pair of Mars Surveyor '98 missions. The first is the Mars Climate Orbiter, which was launched aboard a Delta II rocket from Launch Complex 17A on Dec. 11, 1998. KSC-99pc06

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Silhouetted against the gray sky, a Boei...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Silhouetted against the gray sky, a Boeing Delta II expendable launch vehicle with NASA's Mars Polar Lander lifts off from Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral Air Station, at 3:21:1... More

Corasis Fossae Valley, NASA Mars Images

Corasis Fossae Valley, NASA Mars Images

Corasis Fossae Valley NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems Public domain photograph of planet Mars surface, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Martian Temperatures Measured by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer TES. Pathfinder Landing Aite View

Martian Temperatures Measured by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer TES...

Martian Temperatures Measured by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer TES. Pathfinder Landing Aite View NASA/JPL/ASU

Martian Temperatures Measured by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer TES. Isidis Planitia View

Martian Temperatures Measured by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer TES...

Martian Temperatures Measured by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer TES. Isidis Planitia View NASA/JPL/ASU

Polar Stereographic Projection, NASA Mars Images

Polar Stereographic Projection, NASA Mars Images

Polar Stereographic Projection NASA/JPL/GSFC Public domain photograph of planet Mars surface, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

True Color of Mars - Pathfinder Sol 39 Sunrise

True Color of Mars - Pathfinder Sol 39 Sunrise

True Color of Mars - Pathfinder Sol 39 Sunrise NASA/JPL

Wind Tails Near Chimp - Right Eye

Wind Tails Near Chimp - Right Eye

Wind Tails Near Chimp - Right Eye NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of planet Mars surface, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Close-up View of Chimp - Left Eye

Close-up View of Chimp - Left Eye

Close-up View of Chimp - Left Eye NASA/JPL Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

MPL LANDING SITE CORRIDOR, NASA Mars Images

MPL LANDING SITE CORRIDOR, NASA Mars Images

MPL LANDING SITE CORRIDOR NASA/JPL/GSFC

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At a women's forum about "Past, Present and Future of Space," held in the Apollo/Saturn V Center, guests line the stage. From left, they are Marta Bohn-Meyer, the first woman to pilot an SR-71; astronauts Ellen Ochoa, Ken Cockrell, Joan Higginbotham, and Yvonne Cagle; former astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space; and Jennifer Harris, the Mars 2001 Operations System Development Manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The forum included a welcome by Center Director Roy Bridges and remarks by Donna Shalala, secretary of Department of Health and Human Services. The attendees are planning to view the launch of STS-93 at the Banana Creek viewing site. Much attention has been generated over the launch due to Commander Eileen M. Collins, the first woman to serve as commander of a Shuttle mission. The primary payload of the five-day mission is the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which will allow scientists from around the world to study some of the most distant, powerful and dynamic objects in the universe. Liftoff is scheduled for July 20 at 12:36 a.m. EDT KSC-99pp0903

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At a women's forum about "Past, Present ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At a women's forum about "Past, Present and Future of Space," held in the Apollo/Saturn V Center, guests line the stage. From left, they are Marta Bohn-Meyer, the first woman to pi... More

Proposed Mars Polar Lander Landing Site Perspective View 3

Proposed Mars Polar Lander Landing Site Perspective View 3

Proposed Mars Polar Lander Landing Site Perspective View 3 NASA/JPL

New Views of Mars from the Thermal Emission Spectrometer Instrument

New Views of Mars from the Thermal Emission Spectrometer Instrument

New Views of Mars from the Thermal Emission Spectrometer Instrument NASA/JPL/ASU

Cydonia: Two Years Later, NASA Mars Images

Cydonia: Two Years Later, NASA Mars Images

Cydonia: Two Years Later NASA/JPL/MSSS

A High-Resolution Look at the Spring Thaw of the Martian South Polar Cap

A High-Resolution Look at the Spring Thaw of the Martian South Polar C...

A High-Resolution Look at the Spring Thaw of the Martian South Polar Cap NASA/JPL/MSSS

Dust Devils Seen Streaking Across Mars: PART 1--What Are These?

Dust Devils Seen Streaking Across Mars: PART 1--What Are These?

Dust Devils Seen Streaking Across Mars: PART 1--What Are These? NASA/JPL/MSSS

Dust Devils Seen Streaking Across Mars: PART II--Theyre the Work of the Devil!

Dust Devils Seen Streaking Across Mars: PART II--Theyre the Work of th...

Dust Devils Seen Streaking Across Mars: PART II--Theyre the Work of the Devil! NASA/JPL/MSSS

Ancient Paleo-Dunes Battered by Impact Craters

Ancient Paleo-Dunes Battered by Impact Craters

Ancient Paleo-Dunes Battered by Impact Craters NASA/JPL/MSSS Public domain photograph of a solar system, planet, space exploration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mars Polar Lander: The Search Continues

Mars Polar Lander: The Search Continues

Mars Polar Lander: The Search Continues NASA/JPL/MSSS

Recent Sand Avalanching on Rabe Crater Dunes

Recent Sand Avalanching on Rabe Crater Dunes

Recent Sand Avalanching on Rabe Crater Dunes NASA/JPL/MSSS

Wide Angle View of Arsia Mons Volcano

Wide Angle View of Arsia Mons Volcano

Wide Angle View of Arsia Mons Volcano NASA/JPL/MSSS Public domain photograph of planet Mars surface, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fretted Terrain Crater, NASA Mars Images

Fretted Terrain Crater, NASA Mars Images

Fretted Terrain Crater NASA/JPL/MSSS Public domain photograph of planet Mars surface, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alba Patera Surface, NASA Mars Images

Alba Patera Surface, NASA Mars Images

Alba Patera Surface NASA/JPL/MSSS Public domain photograph of planet Mars surface, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Regional View of the Tharsis Volcanoes

Regional View of the Tharsis Volcanoes

Regional View of the Tharsis Volcanoes NASA/JPL/MSSS Public domain photograph of planet Mars surface, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

MGS MOC Returns to Service Following Solar Conjunction Hiatus

MGS MOC Returns to Service Following Solar Conjunction Hiatus

MGS MOC Returns to Service Following Solar Conjunction Hiatus NASA/JPL/MSSS

Sirenum Fossae Trough, NASA Mars Images

Sirenum Fossae Trough, NASA Mars Images

Sirenum Fossae Trough NASA/JPL/MSSS

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