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Category Archives: Reports
Curiosity resumes operations after switching back to Side-B computer
Updated March 12, 2019, 10:40 a.m. PDT (1:40 p.m EDT): Curiosity experienced a computer reset on its Side-A computer on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 (Sol 2,339), that triggered the rover’s safe mode. This was the second computer reset in three weeks; … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA
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MARCI weather report, March 4-10, 2019
Dust-lifting activity continued in localized regions in both the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars this past week. Looking to the ancient southern highlands, local-scale dust storms propagated eastward from Sirenum to Aonia. Southern Noachis Terra also encountered a few … 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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Opportunity: Last panorama and images
Over 29 days last spring, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity documented this 360-degree panorama from multiple images taken at what would become its final resting spot in Perseverance Valley. Located on the inner slope of the western rim of Endurance … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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MAVEN: High solar wind pressure hastens loss of atmosphere
New MAVEN research shows that high solar wind pressure influences Mars’ magnetic fields in ways that can increase the global loss of atmosphere to space. Planetary atmospheres are constantly bombarded by energy and radiation from the Sun, and over time … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, magnetic field, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, MAVEN, NASA, University of Colorado
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HiRISE: Uncommon clay
Uncommon clay. There are some uncommon clays in this sedimentary plain, as first detected in low resolution by the OMEGA instrument on the Mars Express Orbiter. Note the tight cluster of impacts. This image is in the Terra Cimmeria region … Continue reading
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Tagged clay minerals, crater clusters, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiPOD, HiRISE, HiRISE Picture of the Day, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, phyllosilicates, Terra Cimmeria, University of Arizona
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THEMIS: Big impacts and little in Terra Cimmeria
THEMIS Image of the Day, March 13, 2019. This VIS image contains three craters. There is a quarter of the largest crater in the top half of the image, half of a smaller crater at the very top, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona State University, ASU, ejecta, gullies, impact craters, impacts, Mars Odyssey, NASA, radial ejecta, Terra Cimmeria, THEMIS, THEMIS Image of the Day, Thermal Emission Imaging System
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HiRISE: Streaking on Mars
Streaking on Mars. Wind streaking, that is. Here’s the suggester’s rationale for acquiring this image: “There’s a field of two-tailed bright wind streaks here that are really neat. They seem unique to the area. It would be nice to get … Continue reading
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Tagged Arabia Terra, eolian processes, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiPOD, HiRISE, HiRISE Picture of the Day, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, University of Arizona, wind streaks
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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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THEMIS: Daedalia Planum lava flows
THEMIS Image of the Day, March 12, 2019. Today’s VIS image shows a small part of Daedalia Planum.(Note that sunlight in this image is coming from the right.) The lava flows originate from Arsia Mons, one of the large volcanoes … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona State University, ASU, Daedalia Planum, lava flows, Mars Odyssey, NASA, THEMIS, THEMIS Image of the Day, Thermal Emission Imaging System, volcanics
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HiRISE: A margin of lava
A margin of lava. This lava margin in Cerberus Palus is part of the Athabasca Valles flow. There are also lava coils in this region, something we did not know existed on Mars until HiRISE took an image. The lava … Continue reading
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Tagged Athabasca Valles, Cerberus Palus, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiPOD, HiRISE, HiRISE Picture of the Day, lava, lava flows, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, University of Arizona, volcanics
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