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Download coloring pages from the NASA Astrobiology Program featuring the Perseverance rover on Mars.

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Download free coloring and activity pages from the NASA Astrobiology Program! Show us your skills by posting your work on social media and tagging @NASAAstrobio

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Color Me Mars!Explore Section
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The James Webb Space TelescopeExplore Section
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Draw Your Version of Extreme LifeExplore Section
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The OSIRIS-REx missionExplore Section

OSIRIS-REx Samples an Asteroid!


Download free coloring pages based on NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, spacecraft! The artwork has been adapted from the Astrobiology Graphic Histories, and features the spectacular mission of OSIRIS-REx to collect samples from the asteroid Bennu and return them to scientists on Earth. Files are available as pdf files or png images.

A black and white drawing of OREx delivering a present wrapped in a bow to Earth. The spacecraft is in the background with stars. The boxed gift descends in the foreground from a parachute past clouds and the arch of the Earth's horizon.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) delivered an amazing present to Earth on September 24, 2023... samples from the asteroid Bennu! OSIRIS-REx is the first mission from the United States of America to collect a sample from an asteroid.

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A black and white drawing of a scientists reaching into a sterile chamber to unwrap a bow from around the OSIRIS-REx capsule. The view is from inside the chamber. The scientist faces forward, reaching out to the capsule in the foreground.
Scientists have to unwrap the 4.5 billion-year-old samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) in special chambers to keep them pristine and to avoid contamination from Earth. OSIRIS-REx brought samples of the asteroid Bennu back to Earth on September 24, 2023.

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A black and white line drawing of OSIRIS-REx sampling the asteroid Bennu. OREx is in the center of the page with it's arm reaching out to the surface of the asteroid. a section of the asteroid can be seen bottom right with the name "BENNU" on its surface.
OSIRIS-REx reaches out to collect samples from the surface of the near-Earth asteroid named Bennu (formerly 1999 RQ36). The pristine material delivered back to Earth will help scientists understand the formation of the Sun and planets.

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The OSIRIS-REx sample capsule fills the page, suspended from a parachute and drifting to the desert below. A helicopter can be seen in the background.
On September 24, 2023, OSIRIS-REx released its sample capsule, delivering material from the asteroid Bennu to the Utah desert. Scientists on Earth will study the material in order to learn about the formation of the Sun and planets about 4.5 billion years ago.

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Color Me Mars!


Download free coloring pages from the NASA Astrobiology Program featuring the Perseverance rover. The artwork has been adapted from the Astrobiology Graphic Histories, and features moments in Perseverance’s mission to gather samples from the Martian surface at Jezero crater. Files are available as pdf files or png images. Dig out your markers, paints, and crayons and add some color to Perseverance’s journey!

Santa and rovers, (from front to back) Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, Perseverance, and Rosalind Franklin, with Ingenuity leading the way!
Santa races across the North Pole of Mars, pulled by his trusty Mars rovers with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter leading the way. From front to back, the rovers are Sojourner from the Mars Pathfinder mission, Spirit and Opportunity from the Mars Exploration Rover mission, Curiosity from the Mars Science Laboratory mission, Perseverance from the Mars 2020 mission, and Rosalind Franklin from the European ExoMars campaign.

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NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will perform some spectacular ‘firsts’ on Mars. This image shows the Perseverance rover’s companion, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.
NASA’s Mars 2020 mission will perform some spectacular ‘firsts’ on Mars. This image shows the Perseverance rover’s companion, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. Ingenuity will make the first powered flight on another planet. Perseverance itself will store samples of Mars in tubes (seen in the foreground). A future Mars Sample Return mission will collect these samples and return them to Earth, giving astrobiologists their first chance to examine pieces of modern-day Mars up close.

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Scientists install science instruments into the body of the Perseverance Mars rover.
Scientists install science instruments into the body of the Perseverance Mars rover.

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This image shows the Perseverance Mars rover being tested in a ‘clean room’ on Earth.
This image shows the Perseverance Mars rover being tested in a ‘clean room’ on Earth.

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NASA’s Perseverance rover is lowered to the surface of Mars using a ‘sky crane.’ This flying platform can gently place a rover down in a specific spot and then fly away.
NASA’s Perseverance rover is lowered to the surface of Mars using a ‘sky crane.’ This flying platform can gently place a rover down in a specific spot and then fly away.

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The Perseverance rover will collect samples of Mars from Jezero crater that will be returned to Earth by a future Mars Sample Return mission so that astrobiologists can study them in detail.
The Perseverance rover will collect samples of Mars from Jezero crater that will be returned to Earth by a future Mars Sample Return mission so that astrobiologists can study them in detail.

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The James Webb Space Telescope


Download free coloring pages from the NASA Astrobiology Program featuring the James Webb Space Telescope. The artwork has been adapted from the Astrobiology Graphic Histories, and features NASA’s newest, most powerful telescope in space. Files are available as pdf files or png images.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. Thousands of astronomers worldwide will use JWST to study the Universe, including the evolution of the Solar System and the formation of distant stellar systems that might be capable of supporting life on Earth-like planets.

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Visit the JWST website for even more coloring pages and other outreach materials:
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/coloringWebb.html.


Draw Your Version of Extreme Life


Go on a journey to understand Earth’s extremophiles. Scientists examine harsh environments on Earth in order to identify the mechanisms that life uses to survive at the limits of habitability. This information could provide clues as to whether or not life as we know it might live on other worlds in the Universe.

In the late 1960’s, Thomas Brock and his colleagues identified bacteria living in outflow waters from the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. The finding opened a new area of astrobiology research on extremophiles.
In the late 1960’s, Thomas Brock and his colleagues identified bacteria living in outflow waters from the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone National Park. The microbe, known as Thermus aquaticus, is what is now known as a thermophile (heat loving) organism. The finding opened a new area of astrobiology research on extremophiles.

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Life can thrive in terrestrial hot springs on Earth. Use the magnifying glasses in this picture to draw your version of the extreme life – called thermophiles – that live in these environments.
Life can thrive in terrestrial hot springs on Earth. These environments are considered 'extreme' for most life because they are very hot. The springs can also challenge life with other extreme conditions, such as acidity, alkalinity, and salinity. But in order to survive in terrestrial hot springs, most organisms need to be thermophiles, a term that means 'heat loving.'

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Show us your coloring and drawing skills by posting your work on social media and tagging @NASAAstrobio

For NASA coloring pages directed at younger audiences, check out the NASA Science Space Place. Here you will find coloring pages featuring Perseverance, Mars, and other locations in the Solar System:
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/coloring-pages/en/.

Even more coloring resources available from NASA Science: Share the Science, at:
https://science.nasa.gov/toolkit/coloring-books/
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