NASA Mars Rovers Photos API
Retrieve rover photos filtered by sol, Earth date, and camera.
NASA Mars Rovers Photos API is one of 3 APIs that NASA Mars Rovers publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Photos. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.1.2.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.nasa.gov/mars-photos/api/v1.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
NASA Mars Rovers Photos API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the query as api_key (apiKeyQuery).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Retrieve rover photos filtered by sol, Earth date, and camera.
Schemas 5
The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Photo (6 properties), RoverSummary (5 properties), Camera (4 properties), PhotosResponse (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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