Tag Archives: Bagnold Dunes

Curiosity: Northwest passage

Posted on February 18, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1256, February 17, 2016. Curiosity rolled northwest about 25 meters, driving on the rough surface of the Murray Formation. High Dune lies off to the left. Shortly before the drive, ChemCam’s Remote Micro-Imager looked back at Mt. Sharp, taking … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: RMI does a ‘Take 2′ on distant crater

Posted on February 5, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1244, February 5, 2016. The ChemCam’s Remote Micro-Imager has reshot (above) the interior of a distant impact crater lying at the foot of Gale Crater’s interior wall, west- southwest of Curiosity’s current location. The arrow in the image at … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Bump, set… Scuff!

Posted on February 5, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1244, February 4, 2016, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Today’s plan is focused on bumping towards a bedrock target to set us up for contact science in the weekend plan.  As we bump forward, we’ll use the rear … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Forward and backward, at Namib Dune

Posted on February 4, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1243, February 4, 2016. The Navcam shot a semi-panorama, broken here into two segments: the way westerly and forward (top), and a look behind (below) at Namib Dune. Click either to enlarge. Sol 1243 raw images (from all cameras), … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Getting ready to leave Namib Dune

Posted on February 4, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1243, February 3, 2016, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: The contact science activities on Sol 1242 were successful, which completed our investigation at the Namib Dune sampling location. I love the above Navcam image, which shows just how … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Last analyses of the dump piles

Posted on February 3, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1242, February 2, 2016, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Today was the last day for science activities at Namib Dune, as we’re planning to drive away on Sol 1243.  It’s fun looking at the disturbed sand in the … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Wrapping up at Namib Dune

Posted on February 1, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1241, February 1, 2016, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Curiosity is still parked at Namib dune, and we are we are close to finishing the science investigation here.  The team is still working to diagnose the CHIMRA anomaly, … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Analyzing the sands of Mars

Posted on January 29, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1239-40, January 29, 2016, update from USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: Since the anomaly with CHIMRA is still being investigated, there was no science involving the arm in today’s plan. Still, there was plenty to do, and we had to … Continue reading →

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Curiosity snaps sandy selfie

Posted on January 29, 2016 by rburnham

The latest self-portrait from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the car-size mobile laboratory beside a dark dune where it has been scooping and sieving samples of sand. The new selfie combines 57 images taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Gullies on a dune

Posted on January 29, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1237, January 29, 2016. The right and left Navcams shot a two-frame picture of the crumbling lip of Namib Dune, revealing a texture in small scale rather like the much larger gullies on the insides of crater rims. Click … Continue reading →

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