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ALT An area west of Jezero Crater, Mars, as captured by the HiRISE instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on June 13, 2026. The terrain consists of a desert landscape with small hills and fields of dunes. The car-sized Perseverance rover is visible as a small, bright, blue-green dot, circled in yellow. The rover's tracks are also visible as a thin gray line winding through the terrain. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
ALT An area west of Jezero Crater, Mars, as captured by the HiRISE instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on June 13, 2026. The terrain consists of a desert landscape with small hills and fields of dunes. The car-sized Perseverance rover is visible as a small, bright, blue-green dot, circled in yellow. The rover's tracks are also visible as a thin gray line winding through the terrain. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
ALT A marathon "sticker" showing a silhouette of the Perseverance rover, with the text: 26.2 miles - Perseverance Rover - Jezero Crater, Mars and the geographic coordinates of JPL on Earth and the approximate point of marathon completion on Mars
ALT A view from underneath the rover showing a wheel and flagstone-like rocks on the surface of Mars.
ALT Three microchips are circled in a photo taken on Earth of the Perseverance rover's cross-bar where they are installed.
ALT A purple boarding pass to send your name with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The boarding pass is broken up the way a ticket might be, with a tearable stub. The left third, the stub, has the stylized telescope name above the silhouette of Roman's 18 square detectors in its iconic arch shape. Space Telescope is written just below the detectors and above a QR code. Below that are nasa.gov and nasa.gov/roman. The right two thirds of the pass have the red and blue NASA meatball logo along the top. “Your “Name Here” are in large text below that. Much smaller text below that reads "Namesake: NASA's first chief of astronomy aka Mother of Hubble," then "Spacecraft: Astrophysics infrared survey observatory," and below that "Mission Focus: Dark energy, dark matter, exoplanets." Along the bottom, text reads "Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center, Destination: Sun-Earth LaGrange Point 2, Total Miles: 1,000,000." An illustration of the telescope sits along the right side.
ALT NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm scooped up loose orangey soil to create a shallow trench. White dice-sized chunks were revealed, as seen in the upper right-hand portion of this image.
ALT black-and-white view of a desert landscape with flat rocks in the foreground and pointy, layered hills on the horizon
ALT NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit welcomed the beginning of 2006 on Earth by taking a striking panorama of intricately rippled sand deposits in Gusev Crater on Mars. This is an approximate true-color rendering of the "El Dorado" ripple field provided by Spirit. Spirit used the Pancam's 750-nanometer, 530-nanometer and 430-nanometer filters to capture the colors on Mars. Scientists eliminated seams between individual frames in the peachy sky portion of the mosaic to better simulate the vista a person standing on Mars would see. Hills are visible in the far distance. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
ALT Mars appears as a small, faint, reddish star in a clear pre-dawn sky above a lake rimmed with mountains on June 5, 2026. Photo: NASA/Bill Dunford
ALT Rover tracks seen crossing a rocky desert on Mars with rolling hills on the horizon.
ALT An artist's concept of the MAVEN spacecraft, a metallic cube with square solar panels on either side, above the red planet Mars. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Colorado/Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
ALT The insect-like shadow of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter in a black-and-white photo taken by the helicopter mid flight
ALT Black and white image of the surface of the Moon showing the shadow of the Surveyor I spacecraft that took it in the late lunar afternoon. The horizon is at the upper right.
ALT NASA's Curious Universe graphic, including illustrations of aircraft, spacecraft, and celestial bodies