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The Mars Report

Covering Mars rovers, landers, and orbiters, this series shares what the missions are up to, and shows us how robotics are teaching us more about Mars.

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An animation showing Mars against a black background. Two spacecraft � like short gray cyclinders with flat panels on the right and left � orbit the planet.

NASA's ESCAPADE Investigates Mars Space Weather

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23, 2024. A rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls is to the left of the rover near the center of the image.

NASA Shares Details of Perseverance Rover Finding

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This image shows an artist concept of NASA Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution MAVEN mission.

Is This How Mars Lost Its Atmosphere?

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The image features a rover with its robotic arm and various instruments visible on a rocky, reddish-brown terrain. In the background is a barren landscape with scattered rocks and hills under a hazy sky. Overlaying the left side of the image is a semi-transparent panel with the title "Large Organics on Mars" in bold black letters. Below the title, three molecular chains are displayed, consisting of black spheres representing carbon atoms and white spheres representing hydrogen atoms. Labels indicate "carbon" as the black spheres and "hydrogen" as the white spheres. A faint circular blur appears in the background of the panel.

Largest Organics Yet Discovered on Mars

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Mars with its two bumpy moons at right.

How Did Mars Get Its Moons?

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An image of Mars with the text Mars Sample Return montage over it.

Mars in 4K: Perseverance's Rock Sample Collection

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A realistic, animated video shows the progression of Mars rovers from a small microwave-sized Sojourner rover to the SUV-sized Perseverance rover. The final frame shows a sample return rocket liftin off from the Martian surface.

Evolution of NASA’s Mars Rovers: Sojourner to Perseverance

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Graphic of MAVEN spacecraft with NASA meatball in top left corner and the text "Ten Years at Mars with MAVEN" in yellow letters across the left side of the graphic.

Ten Years at Mars with NASA's MAVEN Mission

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On a black background, a large orange and white orb is surrounded by a diffuse, grainy, orange halo. The halo appears to have more material on its right side than its left.

Hubble Helps Solve The Mystery of Mars' Escaping Water

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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23. A rock nicknamed “Cheyava Falls,” which has features that may bear on the question of whether the Red Planet was long ago home to microscopic life, is to the left of the rover near the center of the image.

Signs of Ancient Life on Mars? Here's What We See in This Intriguing Rock

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A sprawling landscape of ridges and valleys on Mars.

Curiosity Rover Explores Gediz Vallis Channel (360 View)

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A small helicopter sits on the surface of Mars

NASA Science Live: Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Tribute & Legacy

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A grey textured surface is shown with 13 different location pins dropped throughout. The text "THE STORIES MARS ROCK SAMPLES COULD TELL" is overlain on the surface.

Mars Rock Samples: The Stories They Could Tell

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This selfie was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. Varying shades of red and brown rocks are visible below a dusty atmosphere.

What NASA's Curiosity Rover Has Learned in Over 10 Years of Exploring

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Mars Vista As Clear As Day

‘Float rocks,’ sand ripples, and vast distances are among the sights to see in the latest high-resolution panorama by the…

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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. The image shows the terrain of Mars with some rocky soil.

Perseverance Rover

See the latest images the Perseverance rover sends back from Jezero Crater. Vote for your favorite to become "Image of the Week."

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Curiosity Rover

View the latest images taken by the Curiosity rover from Gale Crater.

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This image shows InSight's domed Wind and Thermal Shield, which covers its seismometer. The image was taken on the 110th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The seismometer is called Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, or SEIS.

InSIght Lander

View the archived images taken by the Mars InSight lander from Elysium Planitia.

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drawing of a waveform emanating from planet Mars

Sounds of Mars

Ever wonder how you would sound on Mars? Grab your headsets, turn up the volume and listen for the subtle differences between the sounds on Earth versus how they would sound on Mars.

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Four thin curved lines are shown at the left, changing in color from light blue to dark blue. The text "on a mission" is written at the bottom. The NASA logo is positioned at the upper right.

Digging In: When Rovers Get Dirt on Mars

Learn about rover drilling on Mars in this episode of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's "On a Mission" podcast.

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Wheel on Perseverance rover rotating in an animation

Audio from Perseverance

What does a Martian dirt devil sound like? Or a rover driving on Mars? Immerse yourself on Mars by listening to these sounds and more!

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Posters, Fact Sheets & Lithographs

Download Posters, Fact Sheets and Lithographs that explain the science behind the missions and dive deeply into specific topics.

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Animation of a woman spinning the wheels of a cardboard rover, with a larger model rover in the background.

Make a Cardboard Rover

In this challenge, you will build your own rubber-band-powered rover that can scramble across a room.
Note: A Spanish version of this activity is available here.

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An animation of a person dropping a paper helicopter which then spins as it falls to the wooden floor.

Make a Paper Mars Helicopter

The goal for this project is to build your own paper helicopter. Then, just as NASA engineers had to try out different versions of the Mars Helicopter (called Ingenuity) before coming up with a final design, you will experiment with the design of your helicopter to see what works best.

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Six chocolate candy bars cut into a cross-section to resemble rock formations

Describe Rocks Like a NASA Scientist

Learn how to describe rock samples like a NASA scientist. Then, take a quiz to see if you can match edible rocks made of candy bars – and real rocks from Earth and space – to the correct description.

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Illustration of Mars with blue clouds labeled 'SHAPES' and the text 'Cloudspotting on MARS' in blue and red against a starry black background.

Cloudspotting on Mars

Help scientists find distinct cloud shapes in the Martian atmosphere!

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Mars Near Opposition 2024

Hubble Captures Mars

This is a combination of Hubble Space Telescope images of Mars taken from December 28th to 30th, 2024. Mars was approximately 61 million miles from Earth. Thin water-ice clouds that are apparent in ultraviolet light give the Red Planet a frosty appearance.

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Mars Near Opposition 2024

3D Models

Discover a collection of Mars and spacecraft models, ideal for visualization, 3D printing, and a range of other applications.

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Solar System Resource Packages

Explore these pages for curated collections of planetary resources, including activities that can be done at home, as well as videos, animations, printable graphics, and online interactives.

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