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Tag Archives: Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
Opportunity dusts off Sgt. Charles Floyd
Sol 3950, March 5, 2015. Opportunity used its brush to clear dust from the unusual rock dubbed Sgt. Charles Floyd (after the quartermaster of the Lewis and Clark expedition). The brushed area appears as a slightly darker circle in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Sgt. Charles Floyd, Spirit of St. Louis Crater
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Opportunity studies ‘odd rocks’ at valley overlook
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity climbed last month to an overlook for surveying “Marathon Valley,” a science destination chosen because spectrometer observations from orbit indicate exposures of clay minerals. Near the overlook, it found blocky rocks so unlike any previously … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Sgt. Charles Floyd, Spirit of St. Louis Crater
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Opportunity: Scouting at J. B. Charbonneau
Sol 3936, February 19, 2015. At left center, Opportunity’s wheel tracks show where it drove close to the striated rocks in the target area dubbed ‘Jean Baptiste Charbonneau,’ at the lip of Marathon Valley. (Charbonneau was a 19th century American … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Tribulation, Endeavour Crater, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Marathon Valley, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity
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