Clouds drift through the sky as the light fades near sunset in this three frame animated gif.

What are these strange shapes on Mars?

Part of a 360 degree panorama, this view looks out from the Mars rover Curiosity's current location on the Red Planet dubbed Teal Ridge.

This close-up was taken from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera.

If you put your ear to Mars, what would you hear?

Your arm on Mars has unusual powers. For one thing it is nearly 2 meters long, has a scoop and grapple built into its hand, and has a camera built into its forearm.

Welcome to Mars, NASA Insight. Yesterday NASA's robotic spacecraft InSight made a dramatic landing on Mars after a six-month trek across the inner Solar System.

This moon is doomed. Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, whose names are derived from the Greek for Fear and Panic.

On Mars dust storms can't actually blow spacecraft over, but they can blot out the Sun.

Still bright in evening skies, Mars was just past opposition and closest to Earth on July 31, a mere 57.6 million kilometers away.