For students

Find a place, then load it in JMARS

A short path for a class project or the Mars Student Imaging Program.

1. Pick a place from the list below, or type one in the search.
2. Look at the results. Each card is one image, with the date it was taken.
3. Open an image to see it larger.
4. Follow the JMARS steps on that page to load the same image in JMARS.

Good first places

• Crater, 48 kmJezeroNASA's Perseverance rover landed here in February 2021. The crater once held a lake, and a river delta still fans out on its western side.
• Crater, 154 kmGaleCuriosity landed here in August 2012 and has been climbing the layered mountain in the middle, Aeolis Mons, ever since.
• Crater, 158 kmGusevThe Spirit rover landed in this crater in January 2004 and explored the Columbia Hills inside it.
• Crater, 22 kmEndeavourThe Opportunity rover reached this crater's rim in 2011 and explored it until its last contact in 2018.
• Planitia, 3,560 kmUtopia PlanitiaA vast northern plain. Viking 2 landed on it in 1976, and China's Zhurong rover in 2021.
• Planitia, 1,542 kmChryse PlanitiaViking 1 landed on this plain in July 1976 and kept working there for more than six years.
• Mons, 610 kmOlympus MonsThe largest volcano in the solar system, about 600 km across. The search covers its summit calderas.
• Mons, 470 kmArsia MonsThe southernmost of the three great Tharsis volcanoes, with a summit caldera over 100 km wide.

ASU runs the Mars Student Imaging Program, where student teams use JMARS and THEMIS for real research. This atlas is not part of it.