page_title: List of rocks on Mars
section_title: 2012 – Curiosity rover (Mars Science Laboratory)
hierarchical_section_title: List of rocks on Mars / 2012 – Curiosity rover (Mars Science Laboratory)
caption_attribution_description: English: PIA16072: Curiosity's First Rock Star This mosaic image shows the first target NASA's Curiosity rover aims to zap with its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument. ChemCam will be firing a laser at this rock, provisionally named N165, and analyzing the glowing, ionized gas, called plasma, that the laser excites. The instrument will analyze that spark with a telescope and identify the chemical elements in the target. The rock is just off to the right of the rover. This image is part of a set of images obtained by Curiosity's Mast Camera on Aug. 8 PDT (Aug. 9 EDT). See PIA16051 for the larger mosaic. JPL manages the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
context_page_description: This is an alphabetical list of named rocks found on Mars, by mission. This list does not include Martian meteorites found on Earth.
  Names for Mars rocks are largely unofficial designations used for ease of discussion purposes, as the International Astronomical Union's official Martian naming system declares that objects smaller than 100 m are not to be given official names. Because of this, some less significant rocks seen in photos returned by Mars rovers have been named more than once, and others have even had their names changed later due to conflicts or even matters of opinion. Often rocks are named after the children or family members of astronauts or NASA employees. The name Jazzy, for example, was taken from a girl named Jazzy who grew up in Grand Junction, CO, USA. Her father worked for NASA and contributed to the findings and naming of the rocks.
context_section_description: Curiosity Rover – August 6, 2012; CURRENTLY ACTIVE.
  
  Mars landing coordinates: 4.5895°S 137.4417°E (4°35′31″S 137°26′25″E)
  (Raw Images - Camera and Sol and 1-JPL and 2-JPL + NASA Image Viewer.)
  Alexander Hills (area)
  Amargosa Valley (area)
  Bathurst Inlet
  Bonanza King
  Book Cliffs (area)
  Buckskin
  Burwash
  Chinle (area)
  Confidence Hills (area)
  Coronation
  Crest
  Crestaurum
  Cumberland
  Darwin Outcrop
  Dingo Gap (area)
  Discovery Ridge (area)
  Egg Rock (meteorite)
  Ekwir_1
  Et-Then
  Garden City (area)
  Gillespie (area)
  Gillespie Lake
  Glenelg (area)
  Goulburn
  Harrison
  Hidden Valley (area)
  High Dune (area)
  Hottah
  Ithaca
  Jake Matijevic
  John Klein-A/B/C
  Kimberley (area)
  Knorr
  Lamoose
  Lebanon (iron meteorite)
  Link
  Little Colonsay
  Missoula
  Mojave (area)
  Mojave 2
  Murray Unit (area)
  Namib Dune (area)
  Not Bones
  Nova
  Old Soaker
  Pahrump Hills (area)
  Panorama Point (area)
  Pink Cliffs (area)
  Point Lake (area)
  Portage
  Rapitan
  Rocknest (area)
  Rocknest 3
  Sayunei
  Selwyn
  Shaler
  Sheepbed
  Shoemaker
  Snake River
  Stimson unit (area)
  Strathdon
  Sutton Inlier (area)
  Telegraph Peak (area)
  Tintina
  Twin Cairns Island (area)
  Unnamed-20120902
  Unnamed-20180102
  Vera Rubin Ridge (area)
  Waypoint 1 (area)
  Wernecke
  Whale
  Wildrose
  Windjana
  Winnipesaukee
  Yellowjacket
  Yellowknife Bay (area)
caption: Panorama of rocks as viewed by the Curiosity Rover – near Bradbury Landing (August 9, 2012).
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