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Curiosity update: No golf courses on Mars…yet
Sol 2149, August 22, 2018, update by MSL scientist Roger Wiens: With seventeen sampling holes and several test holes, you might imagine that Curiosity is creating a rather long and erratic golf course in Gale crater. After all, Alan Shepard … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Ainshval, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Loch Aline, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Stoer, Tarskavaig, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Well I’ll be DANed!
Sol 2148, August 22, 2018, update by MSL scientist Melissa Rice: Curiosity is probing the subsurface today with its Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument. At three different times, Curiosity will use DAN in its “active” mode for 20 minutes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Doonie Point, Gale Crater, Mainland, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: SAM EGA on the Stoer sample!
Sol 2147, August 20, 2018, update by MSL scientist Mark Salvatore: With the successful drilling of the Stoer target two weeks ago, Curiosity has been busy characterizing the surrounding terrain using its remote instrument package, performing contact science in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Pentland Hills, Stoer, Strontian, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Soliday Sunday
Sols 2145-46, August 20, 2018, update by MSL scientist Christopher Edwards: Unlike normal weekend plans for Curiosity that encompass three martian days, this plan only covers two. This “Soliday Sunday” isn’t really a day off for the rover like it … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Pettegrove Point, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: False alarm!
Sols 2143-44, August 16, 2018, update by MSL scientist Brittney Cooper: The planning day began with an interesting result from the previous plan’s ChemCam RMI analysis of a target that was referred to as “Pettegrove Point Foreign Object Debris” (PPFOD), … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Balnakeil, Belhelvie, Ben Arkle, Camas Mor, Curiosity, False Alarm, Gale Crater, Loch Ranza, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Pettegrove Point, Pettegrove Point Foreign Object Debris, PPFOD, Rabhadh Ceàrr, Sandray, Stoer, Strathconon, Strontian 2, Traboyack, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Taking a closer look at the Stoer sample
Sols 2141-42, August 13, 2018, update by MSL scientist Ashley Stroupe: In today’s plan, Curiosity begins analysis of the long-awaited Pettegrove Point drill sample at the “Stoer” target, which was successfully collected last week (and I had the pleasure of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Belhelvie, Ben Lui, Caltron Hill, Camas Mor, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Pettegrove Point, Pitlochry, Sandray, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Success at Pettegrove Point!
Sols 2138-40, August 13, 2018, update by MSL scientist Catherine O’Connell-Cooper: On our third attempt at drilling within the Pettegrove Point member on the Vera Rubin Ridge, we have success! Curiosity has successfully drilled, and generated a pile of drill … Continue reading
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Curiosity: Successful drilling at Stoer
Sol 2136, August 9, 2018. Must be a case of third-time-lucky — Curiosity’s drill dug into the Pettegrove Point rock at Stoer and produced a respectable pile of tailings around the drill hole. Click the image to enlarge it. (Pre-drill … Continue reading
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Curiosity update: Try, try, and try again
Sols 2136-37, August 8, 2018, update by MSL scientist Sarah Lamm: After two sols of analyzing our intended drill site in the Pettegrove Point member, we began plans to drill the target “Stoer.” Stoer has had Mastcam images, MAHLI images, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Belhelvie, Caithness, Camas Mor, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Brittle, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Pettegrove Point, Sandray, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity: Mastcam scouts the Stoer drill site
Sol 2132, August 5, 2018. Curiosity’s Mastcam (34 mm lens) looked down and documented the proposed drill site, dubbed Stoer, for the third attempt to penetrate the hematite-hardened rock atop Vera Rubin Ridge. Below is another Mastcam composite, one which … Continue reading
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