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Tag Archives: Sandside Harbour
Curiosity update: Additional contact science and a soliday at Sandside Harbour
Sols 2472-73, July 22, 2019, update by MSL scientist Lauren Edgar: Curiosity is still parked in front of an outcrop known as “Sandside Harbour” in order to investigate differences in the lighter and darker outcrop expressions. Contact science in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Blackstones Bank, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, East Shetland, Essendy, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Halkirk, Joppa Shore, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, North Minch, Sandside Harbour
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Curiosity: Mastcam, near and far
Sol 2468, July 17, 2019. The wide-angle (34mm) Mastcam shot an outcrop next to Curiosity that shows layered sediments on the left and a different texture on the right. Below is a five-frame sequence looking toward a local rise and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, impact craters, lake bed sediments, layered deposits, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Sandside Harbour, sedimentary deposits
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Curiosity update: Rolling southward!
Sols 2468-69, July 16, 2019, update by MSL scientist Catherine O’Connell-Cooper: Curiosity finished up our investigation at Harlaw Rise on the weekend, and commenced our drive to an area we are (informally) calling the “Southern Outcrop,” another of the ridge … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Harlaw Rise, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Paible, Sandside Harbour, Southern Outcrop
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