Tag Archives: Curiosity

Curiosity update: The Southern Escarpment almost within reach

Sol 2476, July 24, 2019, update by MSL engineer Ashley Stroupe: This morning Curiosity found herself parked at the base of the southern escarpment of the Visionarium. She’s at a significant tilt of 21 degrees; you can see the slope … Continue reading

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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia

Daily Elysium charts and data (temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure) here.

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Curiosity update: Powering through!

Sol 2475, July 23, 2019, update by MSL scientist Dawn Sumner: It’s winter for Curiosity, and it’s cold. That means that we have to spend extra energy heating up the instruments and motors for our activities. All of our energy … Continue reading

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2018 global dust storm according to Curiosity’s REMS instrument in Gale Crater

[Editor’s note: From a paper by Daniel Viúdez‐Moreiras and 14 co-authors recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.] Effects of the MY34/2018 Global Dust Storm as Measured by MSL REMS in Gale Crater • Atmospheric opacity over Gale Crater … Continue reading

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Curiosity update: A great outcrop!

Sol 2474, July 22, 2019, update by MSL scientist Kristen Bennett: Today’s one-sol plan included both remote science and contact science. The team planned a large Mastcam mosaic of the outcrop located to the south of Curiosity. The image above … Continue reading

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Curiosity update: Additional contact science and a soliday at Sandside Harbour

Sols 2472-73, July 22, 2019, update by MSL scientist Lauren Edgar: Curiosity is still parked in front of an outcrop known as “Sandside Harbour” in order to investigate differences in the lighter and darker outcrop expressions. Contact science in the … Continue reading

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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia

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Curiosity: Mastcam, near and far

Sol 2468, July 17, 2019. The wide-angle (34mm) Mastcam shot an outcrop next to Curiosity that shows layered sediments on the left and a different texture on the right. Below is a five-frame sequence looking toward a local rise and … Continue reading

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Curiosity update: A way to spend a day at Solway

Sols 2470-71, July 17, 2019, update by MSL scientist Scott Guzewich: Today, Curiosity finds itself parked in front of a fascinating area of martian bedrock with clearly lighter and darker colored areas next to each other as seen in the … Continue reading

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Curiosity update: Rolling southward!

Sols 2468-69, July 16, 2019, update by MSL scientist Catherine O’Connell-Cooper: Curiosity finished up our investigation at Harlaw Rise on the weekend, and commenced our drive to an area we are (informally) calling the “Southern Outcrop,” another of the ridge … Continue reading

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