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Category Archives: Reports
THEMIS: Ice-rich mantling in Utopia crater
THEMIS Image of the Day, April 16, 2019. This false-color VIS image shows a crater located in Utopia Planitia. The crater’s interior shows ample evidence for an ice-rich mantling material that has slipped and slumped away from the crater’s upraised … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona State University, ASU, false color, ground ice, ice-rich mantling, Mars Odyssey, NASA, northern lowlands, northern plains, THEMIS, THEMIS Image of the Day, Thermal Emission Imaging System, Utopia Planitia
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Curiosity update: Wrapping up at Aberlady
Sol 2379, April 15, 2019, update by MSL scientist Mariah Baker: With our time at Aberlady coming to a close, the search for our next drill target is in full swing. On Friday, the team discussed two different “bump” options … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberlady, Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA
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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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Curiosity: Looking at Lumphanan
Sol 2376, April 13, 2019. Curiosity’s Remote Micro-Imager took a look at the target that mission scientists have dubbed Lumphanan, tagged as a possible meteorite. Click the image to enlarge it. Sol 2376 raw images (from all cameras).
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Lumphanan, Mars Science Laboratory, meteorites, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, nickel-iron meteorites
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HiRISE: Gullies on Gorgonum Chaos mesas
Gullies on Gorgonum Chaos mesas. This observation shows part of Gorgonum Chaos, a large cluster of chaotic terrain found in the Southern Hemisphere. Many regions of chaotic terrain are found at the head of large outflow channels that were scoured … Continue reading
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Tagged Gorgonum Chaos, gullies, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiPOD, HiRISE, HiRISE Picture of the Day, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, mass wasting, mesas, MRO, NASA, University of Arizona
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THEMIS: Arabia Terra crater dunes
THEMIS Image of the Day, April 15, 2019. Today’s VIS image is located in an unnamed crater in Arabia Terra. Dark blue in this combination is typically basaltic sands. The presence of sand dunes with this tone indicated that these … Continue reading
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Tagged Arabia Terra, Arizona State University, ASU, basaltic sand, false color, Mars Odyssey, NASA, san, sand dunes, THEMIS, THEMIS Image of the Day, Thermal Emission Imaging System
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Curiosity update: Refining composition and mineralogy at Aberlady
Sols 2376-77, April 13, 2019, update by MSL scientist Vivian Sun: We are continuing the sequence of drill activities at Aberlady. We will be collecting APXS of the dump pile with two offset observations to better understand any compositional variations, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberlady, Aeolis Mons, Ben Vane, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Claymore, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Glen Water, John O Groats, Kirkcaldy, Lumphanan, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Seil
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HiRISE: Pits and flows
Pits and flows. This observation shows smooth-textured flows on the plateau south of the collapse pit chain of Ophir Catena. HiRISE Picture of the Day archive. [More at links]
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Tagged collapse pits, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiPOD, HiRISE, HiRISE Picture of the Day, lava flows, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, Ophir Catena, pits, University of Arizona
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Curiosity update: CheMin success at Aberlady!
Sol 2375, April 12, 2019, update by MSL scientist Kristen Bennett: Today we received the initial results from CheMin’s analysis of the “Aberlady” drill sample, and they look great! This means that CheMin received enough sample and we do not … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberlady, Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Claymore, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, New Lanark, Sutors, Ulva
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InSight: More testing for the ‘mole’
Updated at 5 p.m. PDT (8 p.m. EDT) on April 11: InSight’s Heat and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument completed a new round of diagnostic hammering into the Martian surface on March 26, 2019, while the spacecraft’s seismometer listened in. … Continue reading