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Tag Archives: Aeolis Mons
Curiosity update: Selfie time at Rock Hall: say cheese!
Sols 2291, January 14, 2019, update by MSL scientist Rachel Kronyak: Today we planned a single sol of activities, Sol 2291. As we begin to wrap up our activities at the Rock Hall drill site, Sol 2291 is chock full … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Loch Monar, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rock Hall, Stroma, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Drilling activity completed, almost
Sols 2288-90, January 11, 2019, update by MSL scientist Suzanne Schwenzer: We will soon be leaving the Rock Hall area, thus this one last look at the drill site from a hazard camera perspective. Seeing those holes always is special, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Dufftown, Gale Crater, Lairg, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rock Hall, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity: Gometra in the RMI’s sights
Sol 2286, January 10, 2019. The target dubbed Gometra, possibly a meteorite, was imaged by the Remote Micro-Imager (RMI). (An earlier but similar view of Gometra is here). Click the image to enlarge it. Sol 2286 raw images (from all … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Gometra, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Starting the wrap-up at Rock Hall
Sols 2286-87, January 10, 2019, update by MSL scientist Catherine O’Connell-Cooper: Our onboard instruments SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) and CheMin (Chemistry and Mineralogy) have come to the end of their investigation of the Rock Hall target, likely to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Braeriach, Burra, Curiosity, Deveron, Gale Crater, Gometra, Greenheugh, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rock Hall, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: A spectra-cular Monday on Mars
Sols 2284-85, January 7, 2019, update by MSL scientist Mariah Baker: Today was a very smooth planning day on Mars, with the first scheduled science block in the plan being entirely filled by various spectroscopic ChemCam observations. The ChemCam instrument … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Coatsbridge, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Pitscurrie, Rock Hall, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity: Looking at rocks on the Ridge
Sol 2283, January 7, 2019. The rover’s Remote Micro-Imager (RMI) shot a three-frame composite of a rock (St Cyrus) that appears laced through and through with bright veins, plus a few large dark fragments. At right (top), the RMI view … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Gometra, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, St Cyrus, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: It’s a wonderful day for SAM
Sols 2281-83, January 7, 2019, update by MSL scientist Vivian Sun: Today we are continuing the drill campaign at our red Jura target “Rock Hall.” The focus of this weekend’s plan is the dropoff of the Rock Hall sample to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Gometra, Gruinard Bay, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rock Hall, St Cyrus, Vera Rubin Ridge
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JPL public lecture: Red Planet Rovers and Insights
Get the scoop on the latest missions at Mars. This lecture will bring you up to speed on all things Mars, including: The biggest dust storm in a decade, rolling (and drilling) on “Vera Rubin Ridge,” a new rover under … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Elysium Planitia, Gale Crater, global dust storms, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Happy 2019, Earthlings!
Sols 2279-80, January 4, 2019, update by MSL scientist Claire Newman: The holiday planning completed successfully and included 10 sols of five-hour-long morning meteorological observations by REMS, during the period when more complex activities were precluded. The main goals for … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Bothwell, Curiosity, Fishertown, Gale Crater, Jura, Luskentyre, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Port Askaig, Portnockie, Rock Hall, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Capturing light into the new year
Sols 2276-78, December 21, 2018, update by MSL scientist Fred Calef: As we cross the winter solstice and daylight lengthens here on Earth, the Vera Rubin Ridge campaign on Mars is shortening up towards a science-filled end ‘capturing the light’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Auchenheath, Curiosity, Firth of Forth, Fishertown, Gale Crater, Hopetoun, Luskentyre, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Port Charlotte, Rock Hall, Vera Rubin Ridge
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