Tag Archives: Grange

Curiosity: MAHLI tackles Grange

Posted on November 1, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2217, November 1, 2018. The Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) has taken a look at Grange. At right is a six-frame composite closeup.  The image enlarges when clicked. Sol 2217 raw images (from all cameras).

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Curiosity: Looking closely at Grange

Posted on November 1, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2216, October 31, 2018. Curiosity’s Remote Micro-Imager took a two frame close-up on the target dubbed Grange (right). The location of Grange is shown by the yellow arrow in the Mastcam image from Sol 2214 (Oct 29); to the … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: A BOO-tiful Halloween on Mars

Posted on November 1, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2217, November 1, 2018, update by MSL scientist Lucy Thompson: Today was an exciting day for me as a member of the APXS team and filling the role of payload uplink lead, as Sol 2217 marked a return to … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Mastcam views, near and far

Posted on October 30, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2214, October 29, 2018. Curiosity’s Mastcam (34 mm lens) shot a six-frame portrait of the rover’s workspace (above), with the partial drill hole at Inverness in the middle. Below, a sequence of frames showing the terrain lying to the … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: A windswept workspace

Posted on October 30, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2216, October 29, 2018, update by MSL scientist Melissa Rice: Today was the first day of planning with the full science team since Curiosity had an anomaly on sol 2172. It has been over a month since we last … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Go for drill at Inverness

Posted on September 13, 2018 by rburnham

Sols 2170-71, September 13, 2018, update by MSL scientist Catherine O’Connell: In our previous plan, we assessed the suitability of the Inverness target for drilling. We used APXS to determine if it fell within the required geochemical parameters, first brushing … Continue reading →

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