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Tag Archives: Logan Pass
Curiosity update: ‘Dodging sand, updating ChemCam’
Sol 980-82, May 8, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: The Sol 978 drive stopped after going only a couple meters instead of the expected ~19 meters because Curiosity detected that its wheels were slipping in the sand. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Jocko Butte, Logan Pass, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Mt. Shields, NASA
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Curiosity update: ‘Jocko Chute’
Sol 978-979, May 6, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: The sol 976 drive was successful and we are close to “Jocko Chute” (our informal name for the saddle point west of Jocko Butte). In the sol 978 plan, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Big Salmon, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Jocko Butte, Jocko Chute, Logan Pass, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA, Silvertip, White_Coyote
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Curiosity update: ‘Albert, Bigfork, & Charity’
Sol 973-975, May 1, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: MSL is in a good position for contact science observations on an interesting outcrop of sedimentary rock, so the rover will be busy this weekend! We had to change … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Albert, Bigfork, Charity, Curiosity, Empire, Gale Crater, Logan Pass, Logan's Run, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA
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Curiosity update: ‘Approaching outcrop’
Sol 971-972, April 29, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: This morning the MSL science team used all of the available data to decide whether to approach one of the nearby outcrops or drive away. Ultimately we decided to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Helena, Logan Pass, Lolo, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA
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Curiosity: Sand ripples near bedded outcrops
Sol 967, April 26, 2015. Winds swirling around the thinly bedded outcrops produced a complex sand ripple. Click on the composite image (three Navcam frames) above to open a larger version in a new browser tab. Sol 967 raw images … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Logan Pass, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA, sand ripples
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Curiosity update: ‘More driving’
Sol 966-968, April 24, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: The rover drove 32 meters on Sol 964, to a position that gave us a good view of the terrain ahead and outcrops of interest. So a longer (~80 m) … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Logan Pass, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA, Pablo, Pauline
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Curiosity: Easy driving ahead
Sol 964, April 23, 2015. The Navcam depicts a shallow valley lying in front of Curiosity. The rover is driving westward across relatively smooth ground that appears free of wheel-damaging rocks. (Click on the image above to open a larger … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Logan Pass, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA
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Curiosity: Ridgeline and buttes
Sol 964, April 23, 2015. Although designed to make close-up views of rocks, the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) can also serve as general camera. Here the foothills and outlying buttes of Mt. Sharp rise behind the stratified rocks along … Continue reading
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Curiosity: Logan Pass
Sol 963, April 22, 2015. Four Navcam frames composited show Curiosity’s route westward through Logan Pass. (Click on the image above to open a larger version in a new browser tab.) Sol 963 raw images (from all cameras), and Curiosity’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Logan Pass, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA
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MRO spots Curiosity in Artist’s Drive
A view from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on April 8, 2015, catches sight of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover passing through a valley called “Artist’s Drive” on the lower slope of Mount Sharp. The image from the orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Artist's Drive, Curiosity, Gale Crater, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Logan Pass, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MRO, MSL, NASA, University of Arizona
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