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Curiosity: MAHLI looks away —

Posted on July 12, 2019 by rburnham

Sol 2463, July 11, 2019. Curiosity’s controllers directed the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) — usually aimed to make close-up views of rocks, outcrops, and other nearby features — to shoot a frame looking off toward Vera Rubin Ridge and … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: A fountain of data

Posted on July 11, 2019 by rburnham

Sols 2463-64, July 11, 2019, update by MSL scientist Michelle Minitti: Curiosity continued work on and around the gorgeous outcrop pictured above that was started on Sol 2461. The layers of the outcrop – with their different colors, textures and … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: What would we do without MAHLI?

Posted on July 11, 2019 by rburnham

Sols 2461-62, July 8, 2019, update by MSL scientist Roger Wiens: MAHLI was busy over the weekend. The data from Mars returned a trove of close-up images from the outcrop near the top of “Harlaw Rise,” including the one shown … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: RMI looks at distant caprock

Posted on July 10, 2019 by rburnham

Sol 2461, July 9, 2019. The rover’s Remote Micro-Imager (RMI) reaches out and captures a stretch of thin caprock on a distant butte. Click the image to enlarge it. Sol 2461 raw images (from all cameras).

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Curiosity update: A busy holiday weekend!

Posted on July 8, 2019 by rburnham

Sols 2457-60, July 3, 2019, update by MSL scientist Mark Salvatore: Curiosity will continue to investigate the rocky Harlaw region of the Glen Torridon formation on this holiday weekend. Curiosity arrived at her current location on Monday and has been … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Investigating laminated rocks

Posted on July 8, 2019 by rburnham

Sols 2455-56, July 2, 2019, update by MSL scientist Susanne Schwenzer: The 4th of July is coming up – and so the team worked to keep the rover busy without keeping ourselves busy! Today Earth time we planned two Mars … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Exploring Harlaw Rise

Posted on July 3, 2019 by rburnham

Sol 2454, July 1, 2019, update by MSL scientist Melissa Rice: Curiosity is currently near the top of Harlaw Rise, having made a slight diversion from the southward drive through the clay-bearing unit to explore the nice exposures of rocks … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Climbing higher

Posted on July 1, 2019 by rburnham

Sols 2451-53, June 28, 2019, update by MSL scientist Roger Wiens: Curiosity has been a bit down lately — in elevation. After exploring the top of Vera Rubin Ridge (VRR) last year, the rover descended into a trough south of … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Badcall’ or a good call?

Posted on July 1, 2019 by rburnham

Sol 2450, June 28, 2019, update by MSL scientist Lauren Edgar: Curiosity is parked in front of a ridge-forming outcrop known as “Harlaw” in the Glen Torridon region, and the team had some fun with naming targets today. While planning … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Keep on rollin’ through the rubble to ‘Harlaw’

Posted on June 27, 2019 by rburnham

Sol 2449, June 27, 2019, update by MSL scientist Lucy Thompson: We are continuing our exploration of Glen Torridon (the clay-bearing unit) and the varied lithologies exposed in this area of Gale crater, including more rubbly bedrock that is mixed … Continue reading →

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