Earth and the Martian moon Phobos dance together in a series of images recently acquired by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Earth appears as a point of light in the Martian sky, disappearing behind the crescent of Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons. This is the first time humanity has captured from the surface of
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree view of an expanse of terrain covered in surface features called polygons on June 19 and 20, 2026, the 4,930th and 4,931st Martian days or sols of the mission. The rover has found polygons several times in the past, but never so many in one place. In the
Captured by the multispectral imaging instrument on NASA’s Psyche mission, this is a color-enhanced mosaic created from four individual images acquired on May 15, 2026, during the spacecraft’s flyby of Mars. Psyche traveled from right to left (northeast to southwest on Mars) during the six minutes it took to acquire the images for this mosaic,
This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals, the first seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover passed over and crushed a rock on May 30, 2024. Several days later, Curiosity used a camera on the end of its robotic arm to take this image. A recent paper