First drilled sample: NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully drilled a hole 2 inches deep in a target called “Duluth” on May 20, 2018.
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First selfie: A self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the robot on the lower slopes of Mount Sharp. This mosaic combines multiple images taken with the rover’s arm-mounted Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on June 15, 2018
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This image was taken by the left Navcam on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on June 18, 2019. It shows part of “Teal Ridge,” which the rover has been studying within a region called the “clay-bearing unit.”
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This mosaic of images shows layers of ancient sediment on a boulder-sized rock called “Strathdon,” as seen by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of the robotic arm on NASA’s Curiosity rover. The images were taken on July 10, 2019
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This image shows the Martian moon Phobos as it crossed in front of the Sun, as seen by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on March 26, 2019
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The features in the centre of this image were formed by water billions of years ago. Curiosity Mars rover discovered them on February 24, 2020. The panorama has been white-balanced so that the colors of the rock materials resemble how they would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.
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These 26 holes represent each of the rock samples NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has collected as of early July 2020.
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Curiosity Mars rover spotted this dust storm around 11:35 a.m. local Mars time on August 9, 2020. It was taken from the “Mary Anning” drill site and dust plume was estimated to be at least 50 metres tall.
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This panorama, made up of 122 individual images stitched together, was taken by Curiosity Mars rover on November 18, 2020. The panorama has been white-balanced so that the colors of the rock materials resemble how they would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.
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