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Fly over Gale Crater’s Mt. Sharp by video

Ever wanted to visit Mars? A new animated video shows what it would be like to soar over Mount Sharp, which NASA’s Curiosity rover has been climbing since 2014. This video highlights several regions on the mountain that are intriguing … Continue reading

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Curiosity: Studying the sulfate-bearing unit

Sol 2396, May 3, 2019. The Remote Micro-Imager took a multi-frame composite of the sulfate-bearing unit’s layers seen in a distant outcrop. Click the image to enlarge it. Sol 2396 raw images (from all cameras).

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Curiosity update: Powering through

Sols 2395-96, May 2, 2019, update by MSL scientist Michelle Minitti: The drop off of “Kilmarie” drill sample to SAM on Sol 2293 appeared to be successful, but we will not get the full results of the SAM analysis until … Continue reading

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Curiosity update: Confirmation of another taste of the ‘Clay-Bearing Unit,’ as good as the first?

Sols 2390-93, April 26, 2019, update by MSL scientist Lucy Thompson: We started planning in eager anticipation of the preliminary results from our downlink and whether the CheMin X-ray diffraction spectrometer received enough sample of the “Kilmarie” drill sample to … Continue reading

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