Grilled Cheese

ExploreLog inSign up
Terms of UsePrivacy PolicyCommunity StandardsHelpGet the app

Grilled Cheese is a product of Village Compute

Version devBuilt at: 2026-10-17 18:04:42 EDT

PhotosVideosAllPeople
LatestRanked
Photo, no description
Photo, no description
Quatre vues de Mars montrant les régions Acidalia, Tharsis, Elysium et Syrtis Major.
Image de Mars montrant sa surface rougeâtre et des détails géologiques sous un fond étoilé.
A mosaic of five red-toned images, on top of a zoom on its central region, capturing a 25-meter wide crater on Mars, somewhere in the expanses west of the rim of Jezero Crater. Images acquired by Perseverance on sol 1946 (August 10, 2026).
Ridges near Vernal Crater
Photo, no description
Photo, no description
Photo, no description
Photo, no description
Photo, no description
Photo, no description
Photo, no description
Photo, no description
ALT TEXT Via NASA (https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-postcard-celebrates-rovers-5000th-day-on-mars/)

While parked at a sand ridge nicknamed “Chocolatal,” NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas at two times of day. The first was taken on Aug. 30, 2026, at 9:56 a.m. local Mars time; the second was taken on Sep. 2, 2026, at 5:39 p.m. local Mars time. Those dates correspond to the 5,000th and 5,003rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission.

After being sent back to Earth, the two images were merged together. Color was added for an artistic interpretation of the scene, with blue representing the morning panorama and yellow representing the afternoon one. The resulting “postcard” is similar to past examples created with rover images, such as one taken in November 2021.

The rover’s deck can be seen in the foreground, including its can-shaped UHF antenna, used for sending data to orbiting spacecraft, and its finned Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG), a nuclear power source, at its rear. The rover’s tracks can be seen trailing off in the distance. 

Curiosity is in the lower foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain that sits within Gale Crater. This image looks down toward the crater floor, with the crater rim barely perceptible on the horizon.

Curiosity was built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington as part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program portfolio.
Photo, no description
September 9, 2026: Pit stop! In the middle of a 3-sol (Martian day) drive to a new location called Idubi, the Perseverance rover made a stop to capture this stunning Mastcam-Z mosaic of Shishangeni Crater. Because Perseverance is equipped with auto-navigation capabilities, the Mars 2020 operations team can tell the rover where to stop during its drive to take mosaics like this and can trust the rover to take the images once it determines it’s where it needs to be.  In the picture, we can see ejecta from the 25-meter wide crater impact off to the right side. This mosaic is made up of 26 individual frames and has been created with an enhanced-color stretch to show greater visual contrast. Credit image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS. Credit text: Mastcam-Z Team.
Un groupe de jeunes pose devant un stand sur Mars, avec des robots et un fond de la planète rouge.
Illustration d'une colonie sur Mars avec des astronautes, des habitats et des véhicules sur une surface rouge.
Load more