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View of Mars created with data from Viking and the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLAi)...
Video: NASA/GSFC/Scientific Visualization Studio
A simulated flight through a large Martian canyon, generated by computer from spacecraft...
Video: NASA
An overview of Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars.
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Learn about various scientific efforts to study the planet Mars, including the Opportunity...
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Video captured by NASA's Perseverance rover, as the Ingenuity helicopter took the...
Video: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
A discussion of the possibility of microbial life on Mars.
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Warm-season flows on a slope in Newton Crater on Mars, showing what might be evidence...
Video: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Overview of the challenges of human exploration of Mars.
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Learn about the comparative size of various solar system objects.
Video: © MinutePhysics (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
A discussion of the possibility that there may be life on Mars that originated on...
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Learn about the missions of the Viking space probes.
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Scale of the universe.
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Images
An especially serene view of Mars (Tharsis side), a composite of images taken by...
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
The seasons of Mars, a result of the planet's inclination of 24.9° to its orbital...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Mars (Syrtis Major side) on the last day of Martian spring in the northern hemisphere,...
NASA/JPL/David Crisp and the WFPC2 Science Team
Mars's permanent north polar water-ice cap, in two views acquired in early northern...
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Large storm system high above Mars's north polar region, photographed by Mars Global...
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Dust devil in the Amazonis Planitia region of Mars, imaged by Mars Global Surveyor...
NASA/JPL/Main Space Science Systems
Seasonal water-ice ground frost on Mars, in a photograph taken by the Viking 2 lander...
NASA/JPL
The south polar region of Mars in southern spring, in an image taken by Mars Global...
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
A field of sand dunes on the floor of Mars's Kaiser Crater, shown in a high-resolution...
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Global topographic map of Mars produced from high-resolution laser altimetry data...
Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Science Team
Global map of Mars in epithermal (intermediate-energy) neutrons created from data...
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Los Alamos National Laboratories
Hellas impact basin on Mars, shown in a topographic map (bottom) and an averaged...
NASA/JPL/Goddard Space Flight Center
Yuty Crater on Mars, in a photograph by the Viking 1 orbiter. About 18 km (11 miles)...
NASA
Part of the meandering canyon Nanedi Vallis on Mars, imaged by the Mars Global Surveyor...
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Gullies on the steep north wall of a Martian impact crater on the floor of Newton...
NASA/JPL/Malin Science Space Systems
First color image of Utopia Planitia on Mars returned by the Viking 2 lander, September...
NASA
Three outflow channels located near the eastern edge of the giant impact basin Hellas,...
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system on Mars, shown in a composite of images...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00422)
Outcroppings of sedimentary rock layers in the southwestern Candor Chasma region...
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Topographic map of the Tharsis province of Mars made from high-resolution altimetry...
MOLA Science Team
Olympus Mons, the highest point on Mars, in a computer-generated oblique view made...
NASA/JPL/MOLA Science Team
Avalanches near Mars's north pole in an image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,...
Science@NASA
Chasma Boreale, a long, flat-floored valley in Mars's northern polar ice cap, in...
JPL-Caltech—ASU/NASA
The Martian moons, Phobos (left) and Deimos (right), photographed by the Viking orbiters....
National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Malin Space Science Systems
A portion of the Martian moon Phobos, imaged by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01333)
The boulder-strewn plain of Chryse Planitia, on Mars. The first color photograph...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00563)
The Viking spacecraft. The orbiter is on the bottom, and the lander is on top inside...
Caltech—JPL/NASA
Photograph from Viking 2 lander showing the spacecraft and part of Utopia Planitia,...
NASA
Close-up of a pitted volcanic rock resting on the Chryse Planitia lowland of Mars,...
NASA/JPL/Caltech
Seven very dark holes on the north slope of a Martian volcano that have been proposed...
JPL-Caltech—ASU/USGS/NASA
A portion of rock outcropping within a small crater in the Meridiani Planum region...
NASA/JPL/Cornell University
The robotic arm of Phoenix scooping Martian soil to be examined by an onboard microscope,...
Max Planck Institute—University of Arizona/JPL-Caltech/NASA
Shadow of the Ingenuity helicopter on the surface of Mars, image taken during the...
NASA/JPL-Caltech
One of the first photographs of Mars taken by the Curiosity rover shortly after it...
NASA/JPL/Caltech
The Alba Patera region of Mars. A shallow volcano in the northern hemisphere, Alba...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00409)
The western side of Candor Chasma, part of the Valles Marineris, Mars. The northern...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00403)
Sunlit half of Mars, as seen by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The dark areas...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA Photo # PIA00911)
Enhanced colour picture of Claritas Fossae, an area on the southern hemisphere of...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00154)
Clouds on Mars. The rippled clouds (top) are high in Mars's atmosphere and consist...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01436)
Martian dune field, as seen by the Viking 1 lander. The dunes on the left bear a...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00393)
Elysium region, in the northern hemisphere of Mars. The shield volcano Elysium Mons...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00175)
The “face on Mars” rock formation, in images made from orbit by Viking 1 in July...
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Hellas region of Mars, showing the planet's varied terrain. The eastern portion of...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00188)
Mosaic of the Martian surface. Hellas basin is the light region in the lower right....
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00406)
Hellas plain, a section of Hellas Planitia, a gigantic impact basin in the southern...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00416)
Mosaic of more than 100 Viking orbiter photographs of Mars, showing most of a hemisphere...
A. McEwen, U.S. Geological Survey
The region between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae on the surface of Mars, image captured...
G. Neukum—ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
Viking photograph of the cratered plains/cratered highlands in Lunae Planum. The...
Courtesy of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/National Aeronautics and Space Administration
False-colour picture of Memnonia Fossae, near...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00151)
Perspective view of Nirgal Vallis, based on observations made by the Mars Global...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00944)
Section of the northern polar cap of Mars, as seen by the Mars Global Surveyor on...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01472)
Mariner 9 photograph of the northern polar region of Mars taken during the late Martian...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Malin Space Science Systems
Portions of six Viking orbiter photographs...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Malin Space Science Systems
Olympus Mons, the largest volcano on Mars. The volcano is about 600 km (370 miles)...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00300)
Olympus Mons, Mars's tallest volcano, imaged by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01476)
Northern Valles Marineris, showing a section of Ophir Chasma. The 4-kilometre- (2.4-mile-)...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00425)
Artist's conception of the Phoenix space probe collecting soil samples near the north...
NASA/JPL (NASA photo # PIA07247)
The orbits of the planets and other bodies of the solar system.
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The eight planets of the solar system and Pluto, in a montage of images scaled to...
NASA/Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
The planets (in comparative size) in order of distance from the Sun.
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Part of the floor of Rabe Crater, a large impact crater in Mars's southern highlands,...
JPL-Caltech—University of Arizona/NASA
Ruell Valles, a Martian valley or fretted channel. The steep walls of the valley...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00153)
Martian surface near the equator. The right half of the picture is dominated by craters;...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00413)
Syrtis Major region on Mars. This enhanced-colour mosaic, which combines images taken...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00173)
Mars, with Syrtis Major visible in the planet's centre. Image taken by the Mars Global...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00910)
Tharsis region of Mars. A number of volcanoes are visible in this picture, which...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00408)
Tharsis region, northern hemisphere of Mars. Olympus Mons is visible on the left;...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01435)
Four impact craters of the same size (30 km [20 miles] in diameter) imaged by spacecraft...
(Venus and Moon) Robert Herrick/Lunar and Planetary Institute; (Mars) Calvin Hamilton/Los Alamos National Laboratory; (Ganymede) Paul Schenk/Lunar and Planetary Institute
Utopian plain, Mars, from Viking II.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Central Valles Marineris, one of many valleys on Mars. This false-colour picture...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA 00006)
Viking 2 lander (foreground) on Mars, photographed by one of the spacecraft's own...
LaRC/NASA
A patch of water ice sheltered on the floor of a crater located on Vastitas Borealis,...
ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
Interactives
There are 8 planets in our solar system. The 4 smaller ones are rocky. The bigger...
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