Tag Archives: mineral veins

Curiosity: Cracked rock

Posted on December 21, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1555, December 20, 2016. The Remote Micro-Imager  took aim at a rock target showing a tile-like pattern of cracks that appear to be partly filled with minerals, likely deposited by water. The right side of the four-frame composite shows … Continue reading →

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Gale Crater’s rock-ingredient stew seen as plus for habitability

Posted on December 13, 2016 by rburnham

Editor’s note: Press conference video here. NASA’s Curiosity rover is climbing a layered Martian mountain and finding evidence of how ancient lakes and wet underground environments changed, billions of years ago, creating more diverse chemical environments that affected their favorability … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: MAHLI looks at Kopong outcrop

Posted on September 29, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1474, September 28, 2016. The Mars Hand-Lens Imager (MAHLI) has made a multi- frame composite (big: 5.9 MB) that sweeps down across the Kopong outcrop. (The area shown lies at the left end of the outcrop as imaged here, … Continue reading →

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Evaporating lakes made veins in Mars rocks

Posted on August 5, 2016 by rburnham

Mineral veins found in Mars’s Gale Crater were formed by the evaporation of ancient Martian lakes, a new study has shown. [The study was published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.] The research, by Mars Science Laboratory Participating Scientists … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: MAHLI goes to work on veins, nodules

Posted on March 11, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1278, March 11, 2016. Parked on a flat exposure of Murray Formation bedrock, with mineral veins and little nodules scattered on the rock, Curiosity put its hand-lens imager (MAHLI) to work. (See here and here for the backstory.) Sol … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: On a slabby outcrop with bright veins

Posted on November 6, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1155, November 5, 2015. The right front Hazcam shows the rover with its leading wheels resting on an outcrop of slab-like rocks, shot through with light-colored veins. Below is a Navcam partial panorama looking generally west, with sand- filled … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Contact at Missoula

Posted on July 24, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1051, July 22, 2015. Released as part of the news about Curiosity’s instruments finding silica-rich rocks is this mosaic of MAHLI images of the Missoula outcrop. Pale mudstone (bottom of outcrop) meets coarser sandstone (top) in this geological contact … Continue reading →

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Curiosity eyes prominent mineral veins

Posted on April 1, 2015 by rburnham

Two-tone mineral veins at a site NASA’s Curiosity rover has reached by climbing a layered Martian mountain offer clues about multiple episodes of fluid movement. These episodes occurred later than the wet environmental conditions that formed lake-bed deposits the rover … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Dunes, rocks, and veins in Artist’s Drive

Posted on April 1, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 942, April 1, 2015. Despite dunes and rocks, the Navcam shows a generally trafficable path down Artist’s Drive. This will be the onward route for Curiosity once it finishes up at Garden City and Kanosh. On the right-hand wall, … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Leaving Garden City’

Posted on March 28, 2015 by rburnham

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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