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Curiosity: ‘This is awful stuff’

Posted on July 21, 2014 by rburnham

After travelling 8.5 kilometers on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is now facing some of the most dangerous terrain it has ever encountered…. Winds at Gale Crater, Curiosity’s landing site, have whittled and sharpened rocks into piercing points unlike that seen … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Out of the ellipse’

Posted on July 1, 2014 by rburnham

Sols 673-675, June 27-30, 2014, update on Curiosity from U.S. Geological Survey scientist Ken Herkenhoff: “I’m MAHLI/MARDI uplink lead today, planning Sols 673-675 to get MSL through the weekend. It turned out to be…” [More at link]

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