Mars Rover Photos
Learn to fetch photos of Mars using the Mars Rover Photos API.
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Humanity’s second home after Earth is expected to be Mars. We’ve been searching for life in outer space for centuries. The discovery of polar ice caps on Mars gave us hope that it might be the planet where we would find life after all. In an effort to discover more about Mars, NASA landed multiple rovers on Mars to get information about the planet. The Mars Rover Photos API provides us with information collected by these three rovers:
- Curiosity
- Opportunity
- Spirit
These rovers have multiple cameras, and each one serves a specific purpose. The list of the cameras, whose data we can get using the Mars Rover Photos API, is as follows:
Camera | Abbreviation | Rovers |
Front Hazard Avoidance Camera | FHAZ | Curiosity, Opportunity, and Spirit |
Rear Hazard Avoidance Camera | RHAZ | Curiosity, Opportunity, and Spirit |
Mast Camera | MAST | Curiosity |
Chemistry and Camera Complex | CHEMCHAM | Curiosity |
Mars Hand Lens Imager | MAHLI | Curiosity |
Mars Descent Imager | MARDI | Curiosity |
Navigation Camera | NAVCAM | Curiosity, Opportunity, and Spirit |
Panoramic Camera | PANCAM | Opportunity and Spirit |
Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer | MINITES | Opportunity and Spirit |
Mission manifest
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