Sol 1500, October 25, 2016. A landmark sol (!), and five Navcam frames capture the view ahead of the rover after it rolls away from the Sebina drill hole. At left and right edges stand outliers of the Murray Buttes, while the camera remains focused on the rough terrain ahead. Click image (2.4 MB) to enlarge it.
Sol 1500 raw images (from all cameras), and Curiosity’s latest location.
Sol 1500, October 24, 2016, update by USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Over the weekend Curiosity completed her investigation of the “Sebina” drill site, and we’re back on the road again. Before we hit the road we took another MAHLI image of the drill hole, and noticed just how quickly the wind has swept away the fines. [More at link]
THEMIS Image of the Day, October 25, 2016. This VIS image shows some of the graben which form Noctis Labyrinthus. Graben are formed when pairs of faults cause the material between them to move downward, creating the linear trough. The circular features in the graben near the bottom of the image are thought to form from collapse of surface materials in free space created by lava tubes that flowed within the pre-existing graben.
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Sol 1498, October 23, 2016. The Mastcam shot the Sebina drill hole with both lenses, the 34mm wide-angle lens (top right) and the 100mm. The color difference between them may result from the 3h+ that elapsed between the two images. Click either to enlarge.
Sol 1498 raw images (from all cameras), and Curiosity’s latest location.
Sols 4530-31, October 21-22, 2016. Because Spirit Mound’s origin is unclear (and potentially of scientific interest), the rover team is profiling it from above (upslope). The missing frames may be added as days go by. False-color composite (3.2 MB) by Holger Isenberg. Click to enlarge.
Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, a location map. and atmospheric opacity, known as tau.
THEMIS Image of the Day, October 24, 2016. The elongated hills in this VIS image are a feature termed yardangs. Yardangs are formed by wind activity in regions where the surface material is soft and not well cemented. The elongation indicates the direction of the wind. (Note that the lighting in the image comes from the right.)
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Video replay of ExoMars media briefing on 20 October at ESA’s Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, regarding Schiaparelli and the Trace Gas Orbiter. [Note: This briefing was held before the Schiaparelli crash site was imaged by the Context Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.]
