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Category Archives: Reports
Curiosity: At the waypoint ridge
Sol 2435, June 13, 2019. The ridge at Waypoint 4 is the latest stop for Curiosity. As detailed here, the ridge is of geological interest because its origin is unclear to mission scientists and may shed light on the Glen … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Marwick Head, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Teal, Waypoint 4
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Mars’ water-ice clouds thicken toward evening
[Editor’s note: From a paper by Michael Smith recently published in Icarus.] Local time variation of water ice clouds on Mars as observed by THEMIS • The local time variation of cloud optical depth is examined from THEMIS observations. • … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona State University, ASU, atmosphere, clouds, Mars Odyssey, NASA, THEMIS, Thermal Emission Imaging System, water ice, water ice clouds
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Curiosity update: Forecast: it’s pebbly out there
Sol 2435, June 13, 2019, update by MSL scientist Susanne Schwenzer: After yesterday’s soliday for the rover operations team on Earth, we went back to work planning activities for Curiosity to complete on sol 2435 in the Glen Torridon area. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Little Minch, Mars Science Laboratory, Marwick Head, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, pebbles, Strathspey, Teal, Waypoint 4
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HiRISE: Landing in Oxia Palus
This image shows a cratered area to the southeast of the ExoMars 2020 Rosalind Franklin rover landing site at Oxia Palus. Selecting and characterizing landing sites is a balance between having science targets and avoiding potential obstacles, and HiRISE is … Continue reading
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Tagged ESA, European Space Agency, ExoMars, ExoMars 2020, ExoMars 2020 rover, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, landing sites, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, Oxia Palus, Oxia Planum, Rosalind Franklin, Roscosmos, University of Arizona
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New model for martian crustal magnetism
[Editor’s note: From a paper by Benoit Langlais and four co-authors recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.] A New Model of the Crustal Magnetic Field of Mars Using MGS and MAVEN • MGS and MAVEN magnetic field measurements … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, crustal magnetism, magnetic field, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, Mars Global Surveyor, MAVEN, MGS, NASA, University of Colorado
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THEMIS: Tectonic traces in Amenthes Fossae
THEMIS Image of the Day, June 13, 2019. The two linear depressions crossing this VIS image are graben created by tectonic activity. Explore more THEMIS Images of the Day by geological subject.
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Tagged Amenthes Fossae, Arizona State University, ASU, graben, Mars Odyssey, NASA, tectonics, THEMIS, THEMIS Image of the Day, Thermal Emission Imaging System
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MARCI weather report, June 3-9, 2019
Last week on Mars, dust storm activity continued along the edge of the receding seasonal north polar ice cap. Near the beginning of the week, a regional-scale dust storm occurred over the eastern Arcadia region and spread both southward to … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, clouds, dust, dust storms, haze, Malin Space Science Systems, MARCI, Mars Color Imager, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, MSSS, NASA, storms, weather, wind
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Curiosity update: Ridge rage
Sol 2434, June 10, 2019, update by MSL scientist Mariah Baker: It’s a good thing that Curiosity doesn’t have any competition on the road as she drives fervently across undulating terrain towards a large geologic ridge of unknown origin (informally … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Lossie, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Portessie, Smoogro, Waypoint 4
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Mars 2020 rover to blaze trail for humans
When a female astronaut first sets foot on the Moon in 2024, the historic moment will represent a step toward another NASA first: eventually putting humans on Mars. NASA’s latest robotic mission to the Red Planet, Mars 2020, aims to … Continue reading
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Tagged Crazy Engineering, human exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jezero Crater, JPL, M2020, Mark Watney, Mars 2020, Mars 2020 rover, Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, MOXIE, NASA, The Martian
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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia
Daily Elysium charts and data (temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure) here.
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Tagged Curiosity, dust storms, Elysium Planitia, Gale Crater, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mars Science Laboratory, MSL, NASA, temperature, Temperature and Wind for InSight, TWINS, weather
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