Space Images: Slideshow - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Light Travels Through AIRS Optics
A Moment After Curiosity's Touchdown, Artist's Concept
Installing SAM Instrument into Curiosity Mars Rover
Lowering SAM Instrument into Curiosity Mars Rover
Airborne Testing for Mars Landing Radar by Dryden F/A-18
How Phoenix Measures Wind Speed and Direction
Three Generations of Rovers with Crouching Engineers
Top of Mars Rover Curiosity's Remote Sensing Mast
Curiosity Touching Down, Artist's Concept
Phoenix Soaks up the Sun
Detail Observed from 10 Feet away with Curiosity's ChemCam
Working on Curiosity in JPL Spacecraft Assembly Facility
Relative Positions of Distant Spacecraft
Contact Instrument Calibration Targets on Mars Rover Curiosity
Juno Mission to Jupiter (2010 Artist's Concept)
Engineers Flex Curiosity's Robotic Arm and Tools
Three Eclipsing Bodies (Artist Concept)
Kepler-22b -- Comfortably Circling within the Habitable Zone
Voyager 1 Encounters Stagnation Region
Beginning the Journey to the Launch Pad
Engineers Test Roll-Off at JPL
Out-of-this-World Records
Aquarius at JPL
GRAIL Spacecraft Over the Moon
$A conventional X-ray diffraction instrument (left) is the size of a large refrigerator, in contrast to the compact size of the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover (top right).$

X-ray Diffraction, Big and Small
Mars Rover Curiosity in Artist's Concept, Tall
Detector for CheMin
'Y Dwarf' Chillin' in Space (Artist's Concept)
GRAIL Mission Comes Together
Where the Sun Sets Twice (Artist Concept)
Refining the Ingredients of Our Universe
Liftoff of the Delta II Rocket
Preparing for Rover Pivot Test
Shake it up, CheMin
Checking Tilt of Lightweight Test Rover
View Down the Barrel of NASA's WISE Telescope
Curiosity's Sky Crane Maneuver, Artist's Concept
Artist's Concept of Cassini Spacecraft
Potential Sources and Sinks of Methane on Mars
Final Checks of Aquarius Instrument
Radiation Levels on the Way to Mars
Testing Sequences of Wheel Turns
Landing on Mars for a Short Stay (Artist's Concept)
$The semi-precious gem peridot is a variety of olivine. NASA's Curiosity rover shows the diffraction signature, or 'fingerprint,' of the mineral olivine, shown here on Earth in the form of tumbled crystals.$

Olivine on Earth
New Wheels
Comparison of Curiosity Camera Fields of View
Test Scooping for Mars Rover Curiosity
Tilt-Table Testing for Curiosity's Robotic Arm
Preparation for Testing of Mars Landing Radar
Uphill Climb
Juno Gets a Taste of Space