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ALT A collage of five vertical views of dusty sky and horizon on Mars, from left to right, each image gets darker, until at last little is visible in the landscape.
ALT The planet Mars is pictured against black space, with the majority of the lower hemisphere's surface to appear brown. The top half of the planet looks mostly bright orange, with faint blue water-ice clouds at the north pole. A dust storm appears as a brighter, redder cloudy region in the middle of the planet's disk.
ALT Reddish-brown, dry, dusty Martian surface with a round imprint in it. The view is speckled with irregularly-shaped lighter patches, some of which have a greenish tint.
ALT Reddish-brown, water-smoothed rock with small, pale orange lumps and gray-greenish spots. Snail shells sit in water at the slab’s edge. A rock hammer’s head extends from “top” to “bottom” of the rock in this overhead view, indicating that the whole image covers an area smaller than a placemat.
ALT Three people, dressed for outdoor work, smiling and holding up plastic bags with samples of reddish rock inside. In the background is a vivid green hillside under a blue sky.
ALT Scientists at work on a rocky edge of Scotland, with blue sky and sea in the background. Three people are atop a tall-looking, layered cliff with a puddle of water trapped on it. One is down below, leaning over another layered rock formation.
ALT NASA astronaut and Crew-3 member Tom Marshburn looks at chiles growing inside of the Advanced Plant Habitat. Crew-3 performed the second harvest of chiles aboard the International Space Station for the Plant Habitat-04 experiment. This plant experiment, one of the station’s most complex to date because of the long germination and growing times, will add to NASA’s knowledge of growing food crops for long-duration space missions. Photographer: Kayla Barron
ALT A desert landscape seen from directly above. The left side of the frame is filled with layers of light-toned rock and pits filled with dark sand. On the right, below a cliff, is more dark sand windblown into a rippled pattern. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
ALT A panoramic view of a desert landscape with reddish rocks and sand and low hills in the distance. At the center-right of the frame, rover tracks can be seen.
ALT A panoramic view of a rocky desert landscape. Hills of layered rock stand in the background. The image has two predominant colors: blue tones for the portions of the image captured in the morning, and warmer tones for the portions captured in the eventing. In the foreground is the back half of a robotic Mars rover, with two of its wheels, its top deck, antennas, and its thermal generator visible. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
ALT The first color picture taken by Viking 2 on the Martian surface shows a rocky reddish surface with a peach-colored sky.
ALT Black-and-white photo of a small, dune-like ripple of sand and soil-like material. The ripple is crossed by a deep rover track.
ALT Black-and-white photo of the ground immediately in front of the Curiosity rover. Its wheels are partially visible at the left and right sides of the frame. Most of the frame is filled with sandy, rocky desert ground. A rover wheel track has cut into a ripple of soft material. The cluster of science instruments on the rover's robotic "hand" hover just above the track.
ALT A color, close-up photo of layered, sandy grains and round pebbles clumped together
