Mars Pathfinder

Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars – NASA

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Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars – NASA

Sixty years ago, NASA’s Mariner 4 captured groundbreaking views of the Red Planet, leading to a steady stream of advances in the cameras used to study other worlds. In 1965, NASA’s Mariner 4 mission brought Mars into American living rooms, where TV sets showed fuzzy black-and-white images of a cratered landscape. The spacecraft took 21 … Read more

Perseverance Rover Witnesses One Martian Dust Devil Eating Another – NASA

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Perseverance Rover Witnesses One Martian Dust Devil Eating Another – NASA

The six-wheeled explorer recently captured several Red Planet mini-twisters spinning on the rim of Jezero Crater. A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming a smaller one in this short video made of images taken by a navigation camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. These swirling, sometimes towering columns of air and dust are common … Read more