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Tag Archives: Big Sky
Curiosity: Lowdown on drill holes
From Emily Lakdawalla’s blog at The Planetary Society: This is going to be a rather short update about a rather long period of Curiosity’s Mars exploration. Its posting was delayed a bit due to my travel to the Division for … Continue reading
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Curiosity update: ‘View of Meeteetse’
Sol 1146-1147, October 26, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: The weekend drive was successful, placing us nicely on an overlook of the “Meeteetse” area. The focus for Sol 1146 is to get some good color stereo images of the … Continue reading
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Curiosity update: ‘Last observations at Greenhorn and driving away’
Sol 1142-1145, October 22, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: After a successful investigation focused on alteration zones around fractures, it’s time to move on. We’re still chewing on data from the “Greenhorn” and “Big Sky” drill samples, but … Continue reading
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Curiosity update: ‘Another successful drill hole…’
Sol 1139, October 19, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Over the weekend Curiosity drilled another hole on Mars at the “Greenhorn” target. Everything went smoothly and we have another beautiful sample to analyze! Today’s plan is focused on … Continue reading
Curiosity update: ‘Drilling at Greenhorn’
Sol 1136-1138, October 16, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Unfortunately the Sol 1135 bundles were not uplinked due to a DSN issue, so the activities that we planned yesterday never made it onboard. However, that meant that Curiosity … Continue reading
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Curiosity update: ‘Dump and thwack’
Sol 1133, October 13, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Sol 1133 activities are dominated by dumping the “Big Sky” sample and “thwacking” CHIMRA (the Collection and Handling for in-Situ Martian Rock Analysis) to clean out any remnants of … Continue reading
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New Curiosity selfie at Big Sky drilling site
This self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the “Big Sky” site, where its drill collected the mission’s fifth taste of Mount Sharp. The scene combines dozens of images taken during the 1,126th Martian day, or sol, … Continue reading
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Curiosity update: ‘Dumping Big Sky sample’
Sol 1132, October 12, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Columbus Day [October 12] is a federal holiday, but I’m scheduled as SOWG Chair tomorrow so I’m following Sol 1132 tactical planning and discussions of our goals for Sol … Continue reading
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Curiosity update: ‘Assessing Greenhorn’
Sol 1129-1131, October 9, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Curiosity is currently investigating an alteration zone around a fracture. After a successful drilling investigation at “Big Sky,” Curiosity is now ready to evaluate the alteration zone at “Greenhorn” … Continue reading
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Curiosity update: ‘Full wheel imaging & bump’
Sol 1127, October 7, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Planning is no longer restricted, but to ensure that Sol 1127 commands are ready to be sent to the rover on time, we had to start planning 1.5 hours … Continue reading
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