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Tag Archives: Garden City
Curiosity: The getaway route down Artist’s Drive
Sol 940, March 29, 2015. Using its wide-angle (34mm) lens, the Mastcam shot a 5-frame composite that looks ahead down Artist’s Drive valley, the getaway route for Curiosity once it leaves the area of Garden City and Kanosh rock. (Click … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Artist's Drive, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Garden City, Kanosh, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA
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Curiosity: Checking out a rock called Kanosh
Sol 940, March 29, 2015. The Mastcam, using its longer (100mm) focal length lens, shot a 9-frame composite of the target rock Kanosh. (Click the image to load a 680 KB version in a new tab.) Kanosh may be a … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Garden City, Kanosh, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA, Pahrump Hills
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Curiosity update: ‘Cap rock Kanosh’
Sols 942-943, March 30, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Over the weekend, Curiosity drove further into Artist’s Drive to investigate a rock named “Kanosh.” This boulder appears to represent the “capping unit,” so we’re planning to study Kanosh … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Artist's Drive, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Garden City, Kanosh, Little Devil, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA, Piru, Tierra Blanca
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Curiosity update: ‘Leaving Garden City’
Sols 939-941, March 27, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Ryan and I are working ChemCam tactical operations again today, planning 3 sols to get MSL through the upcoming weekend. We therefore focused on planning Sol 939 ChemCam observations … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Blanco Mountain, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Garden City, Idyllwild, Kanosh, Live Oak Canyon, Mars Science Laboratory, mineral veins, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA
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Curiosity: Giving a rock the brush-off
Sol 936, March 26, 2015. The MAHLI camera records a Garden City veined rock, post-brushing, both from a distance and close up. Sol 936 raw images (from all cameras), and Curiosity’s latest location map.
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Curiosity update: ‘Veinfest’
Sol 937-938, March 25, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Interest in the dark and bright veins continues to be high, so the Sol 937 plan is dominated by observations of these features. But first, ChemCam and Mastcam will … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Garden City, Mars Science Laboratory, mineral veins, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA, Telegraph Peak
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Curiosity: By day and by night at Garden City
Sol 935, March 24, 2015. The Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) has taken a composite image of the veins in part of the Garden City outcrop by daylight. (Click on the image to load a larger version in a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Garden City, Mars Science Laboratory, mineral veins, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA
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Curiosity update: ‘More contact science at Garden City’
Sol 935-936, March 23, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Last Friday [March 20] we planned some additional contact science at “Garden City.” Unfortunately, an error resulted in the loss of contact science during Sols 931-933. A change needed … Continue reading
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Curiosity: Close-up on Garden City, 2.0
Sol 932, March 22, 2015. Using the rover’s onboard software to merge separate images, this four-frame composite by the Microscopic Imager reveals textures and contrasts in one of the veins in the Garden City outcrop. (Click the image to load … Continue reading
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Curiosity update: ‘What’s growing in Garden City?’
Sol 932-934, March 20, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: While many of us in the northern hemisphere are celebrating the first day of spring, Curiosity is busy tending to her “Garden City.” Sadly there are no flowers in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Garden City, Mars Science Laboratory, mineral veins, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA
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