Tag Archives: Curiosity

Curiosity: Giving Ailsa Craig the brushoff

Posted on July 25, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2120-21, July 24-25, 2018. With Curiosity positioned to drill at Ailsa Craig (circled in the Sol 2120 Mastcam composite above), mission scientists first brushed off the target rock. The brushed area is seen as a darker oval area in … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Blackjack!

Posted on July 25, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2121, July 24, 2018, update by MSL scientist Michelle Minitti: Mars dealt us a winning hand today, yielding a sufficiently flat parking space after yesterday’s short bump to allow us to proceed with our plan to drill in this … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Checking the dust at Sgurr of Eigg

Posted on July 24, 2018 by rburnham

Sols 2119-20, July 23-24, 2018. Above is a Sol 2119 Mastcam view of the ridge’s rolling terrain to the rear of the rover. Below is a Sol 2119 Mastcam composite showing the workspace and the Sgurr of Eigg site, with … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: A little bump

Posted on July 24, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2120, July 23, 2018, update by MSL scientist Abigail Fraeman: Our weekend drive completed successfully and we have our next intended drill target attempt in the rover workspace. Unfortunately, the combination of the rover’s pitch and roll would make … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Ben’ there

Posted on July 21, 2018 by rburnham

Sols 2117-19, July 20, 2018, update by MSL scientist Michelle Minitti: Curiosity made great progress yesterday across the “Vera Rubin Ridge” toward the site of our next drilling attempt at “Sgurr of Eigg”. In this weekend plan, we will collect … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Driving back to Sgurr of Eigg

Posted on July 20, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2116, July 19, 2018, update by MSL scientist Ken Herkenhoff: The Sol 2115 wheel imaging went well, and we received the images needed to plan a drive back to “Sgurr of Eigg,” near the Sol 1999 rover position. The … Continue reading →

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Weather update from Gale Crater

Posted on July 20, 2018 by rburnham
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Curiosity update: New method of wheel imaging

Posted on July 19, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2115, July 18, 2018, update by MSL scientist Ken Herkenhoff: The priorities for Sol 2115 are to image the rover’s wheels and acquire the images needed to plan a drive back to the Sol 1999 location, where we might … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: At the (very) Hard Rock Cafe

Posted on July 18, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2114, July 18, 2018. The first of two Remote Micro-Imager photos taken about 20 minutes apart shows how far Curiosity’s drill got when it tried to dig into the hematite-rich rock at the Voyageurs site: Not far. Then the … Continue reading →

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Light-toned Gale Crater rocks made by hot-spot volcanism?

Posted on July 18, 2018 by rburnham

In August 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory’s rover Curiosity landed at the base of Gale crater, a 5-kilometer-high mountain that formed when a meteor hit Mars billions of years ago. Using its 2-meter-long arm to drill into the planet’s surface, … Continue reading →

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