The knob at the east end of Wdowiak Ridge, as seen in a false-color image assembled by Holger Isenberg using filtered Pancam frames.
Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map. (A shortcut to Sol 3748 Pancam raw images is here.)
THEMIS Image of the Day, August 11, 2014. The lava flows in today’s VIS image are part of Ascraeus Mons.
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Sol 713, August 8, 2014, update on Curiosity from USGS Scientist Ryan Anderson: “The plan for Sol 713 is to do some brief ChemCam and Mastcam observations of a target called Thorndike, and then drive. The goal of the drive is to…” [More at link]
August 9, 2014: Opportunity Sets Historic Distance Record and Roves On. It’s official: Opportunity has traveled farther and lived longer than any other vehicle on another planet, driving the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission to a place in history with an out-of-this-world distinction no one even imagined when the robot field geologist left Earth 11 years ago. As the MER team paused to celebrate the historic milestone at the end of July, the veteran rover was already roving on, making marathon tracks toward her next destination and kicking the bar higher for those rovers that have and will follow her to Mars’ surface… [More at link]
Traversing Patapsco Vallis. Beautiful Mars series.
The rover is driving toward the knob at the east end of Wdowiak Ridge, Opportunity’s first point of interest on Cape Tribulation (two-frame composite of blue-filtered Pancam images).
Opportunity raw images, its latest mission status, and a location map. (Shortcut to Sol 3746 Pancam images here.)
NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project successfully flew a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space in late June from the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii. The goal of this experimental flight test, the first of three planned for the project, was to determine if the balloon-launched, rocket-powered, saucer-shaped, design could reach the altitudes and airspeeds needed to test two new breakthrough technologies destined for future Mars missions. Carried as payload during the shakeout flight were two cutting-edge technologies scheduled to be tested next year aboard this same type of test vehicle…. [More at link]
Sol 712, August 6, 2014, update on Curiosity from MSL Scientist Lauren Edgar: “Curiosity is still at the northern end of Hidden Valley, and the rover planners are trying to decide on the best approach for upcoming drives. The plan…” [More at link]
THEMIS Image of the Day, August 8, 2014. The dunes in this VIS image are near the large dune field called Olympia Undae.
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Leveed lava channels on Olympus Mons. Beautiful Mars series.
