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Tag Archives: Curiosity
Curiosity update: The Southern Escarpment almost within reach
Sol 2476, July 24, 2019, update by MSL engineer Ashley Stroupe: This morning Curiosity found herself parked at the base of the southern escarpment of the Visionarium. She’s at a significant tilt of 21 degrees; you can see the slope … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Antonine Wall, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Seaton Cliffs, Southern Outcrop, Tyrebagger Hill, Visionarium
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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia
Daily Elysium charts and data (temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure) here.
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Tagged Curiosity, dust storms, Elysium Planitia, Gale Crater, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mars Science Laboratory, MSL, NASA, temperature, Temperature and Wind for InSight, TWINS, weather
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Curiosity update: Powering through!
Sol 2475, July 23, 2019, update by MSL scientist Dawn Sumner: It’s winter for Curiosity, and it’s cold. That means that we have to spend extra energy heating up the instruments and motors for our activities. All of our energy … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Monreith, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Southern Outcrop
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2018 global dust storm according to Curiosity’s REMS instrument in Gale Crater
[Editor’s note: From a paper by Daniel Viúdez‐Moreiras and 14 co-authors recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.] Effects of the MY34/2018 Global Dust Storm as Measured by MSL REMS in Gale Crater • Atmospheric opacity over Gale Crater … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, atmospheric pressure, Curiosity, Gale Crater, global dust storm, Mars Science Laboratory, MSL, relative humidity, REMS, Rover Environmental Monitoring Station
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Curiosity update: A great outcrop!
Sol 2474, July 22, 2019, update by MSL scientist Kristen Bennett: Today’s one-sol plan included both remote science and contact science. The team planned a large Mastcam mosaic of the outcrop located to the south of Curiosity. The image above … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Mither Tap, Moine, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA
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Curiosity update: Additional contact science and a soliday at Sandside Harbour
Sols 2472-73, July 22, 2019, update by MSL scientist Lauren Edgar: Curiosity is still parked in front of an outcrop known as “Sandside Harbour” in order to investigate differences in the lighter and darker outcrop expressions. Contact science in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Blackstones Bank, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, East Shetland, Essendy, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Halkirk, Joppa Shore, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, North Minch, Sandside Harbour
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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia
Daily Elysium charts and data (temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure) here.
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Tagged Curiosity, dust storms, Elysium Planitia, Gale Crater, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, Mars Science Laboratory, MSL, NASA, temperature, Temperature and Wind for InSight, TWINS, weather
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Curiosity: Mastcam, near and far
Sol 2468, July 17, 2019. The wide-angle (34mm) Mastcam shot an outcrop next to Curiosity that shows layered sediments on the left and a different texture on the right. Below is a five-frame sequence looking toward a local rise and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, impact craters, lake bed sediments, layered deposits, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Sandside Harbour, sedimentary deposits
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Curiosity update: A way to spend a day at Solway
Sols 2470-71, July 17, 2019, update by MSL scientist Scott Guzewich: Today, Curiosity finds itself parked in front of a fascinating area of martian bedrock with clearly lighter and darker colored areas next to each other as seen in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Nith, Solway Firth, Southern Outcrop
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Curiosity update: Rolling southward!
Sols 2468-69, July 16, 2019, update by MSL scientist Catherine O’Connell-Cooper: Curiosity finished up our investigation at Harlaw Rise on the weekend, and commenced our drive to an area we are (informally) calling the “Southern Outcrop,” another of the ridge … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Harlaw Rise, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Paible, Sandside Harbour, Southern Outcrop
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