ALT Dr. Marcia Rieke wears black framed glasses and a plaid collared shirt in white, red and dark blue. She has blue eyes, and her silver hair is pulled back. Behind her is a large screen showing technical information. There appears to be a tracking spreadsheet on the left side of the screen, separated into sections by red, blue and green lines. Image Credit: George Rieke / UAZ
ALT Photo from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover shows a small, white sample tube lying on the sandy surface of Mars. About the size of a marker, the tube sits in the shadow of the rover that released it. Part of the rover’s left rear wheel is visible at top right, along with tracks it has made on the dusty ground.
ALT Photo from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover shows close-up of a small, predominantly white sample tube lying on the sandy surface of Mars. About the size of a marker, the tube features various sections of white, silver, gold and gray.
ALT NASA’s Perseverance rover puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater. Composed of multiple images, this mosaic shows layered sedimentary rocks in the face of a cliff in the delta, as well as one of the locations where the rover abraded a circular patch to analyze a rock's composition. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
ALT A photo of a mound of red dirt sloping off to the right, which was taken on the surface of Mars.
ALT View through Paraitepuy pass, with lots of rocky mounds, sand, and rover tracks.
ALT A photo of Sara Seager holding an Emmy trophy on the red carpet
ALT The 12-person “The Hunt for Planet B” team poses on the red carpet. The director smiles and holds the Emmy trophy in the center of the shot.
ALT Graphic of Webb’s 2 NIRCam instrument images of Mars, taken on Sept. 5, 2022. The image on the left side, titled “Close-Up,” shows 2.1 micron reflected sunlight. This image is mostly mottled dark brown, with 3 lighter brown patches at the top right, top left, and bottom left corners. A gradient color code explains these lighter areas are brighter. Geographic features Syrtis Major, Huygens Crater and Hellas Basin are labeled. The image on the right, titled “Heat Map,” shows ~4.3 micron light that is being given off as heat is lost on Mars. Darker, cooler regions are represented by purple and red, with orange and yellow representing brighter, warmer regions. Mars’ poles and northern hemisphere are purple. There is a large yellow portion on the left half where the Sun is nearly overhead. A label that says “Subsolar Point” points to this region. A small orange patch within the yellow area is labeled as “Hellas Basin,” and it is darker due to atmospheric effects.
ALT Desert Star (Fe-pseudomorph after marcasite) from White Desert in Egypt
