Curiosity update: 100 meters of Mt. Sharp!

Sol 1489-90, October 12, 2016, update by USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: As of today, Curiosity has reached an elevation that is 100 m above the Confidence Hills site, where we first encountered the Murray formation.  That means that in the last 2 years we’ve climbed through 100 m of stratigraphy forming the base of Mount Sharp.  This is amazing progress, and attests to an incredible thickness of primarily lacustrine sediment! Today’s plan is focused on bumping to our next drill location as we continue to sample the Murray formation systematically. The two-sol plan starts… [More at link]