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Tag Archives: Duluth
Curiosity update: Return to Lake Orcadie!
Sol 2222, November 6, 2018, update by MSL scientist Catherine O’Connell-Cooper: Our attempts to drill grey rock on the “Vera Rubin Ridge” (VRR) continue. We are returning to an area known as “Lake Orcadie,” the site of two previous drill … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Duluth, Flotta, Gale Crater, Jura, Lake Orcadie, Lake Orcadie 2, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity report, Sols 2093-2162, by Emily Lakdawalla, The Planetary Society
September 6, 2018: Three Tries to Successful Drill Atop Vera Rubin Ridge: Heedless of the (now-dissipating) dust storm, Curiosity has achieved its first successful drill into rocks that form the Vera Rubin ridge, and is hopefully on the way to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Ailsa Craig, Curiosity, Duluth, Gale Crater, hematite, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge, Voyageurs
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Curiosity update: Delivering the proper proportions
Sol 2150, August 24, 2018, update by MSL scientist Roger Wiens: The big question coming into today was whether to re-do the SAM analysis or not. Now that the drill is being operated with the feed immobile in the extended … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Duluth, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Papa Little, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Over the crest
Sols 2095-96, June 28, 2018, update by MSL scientist Lauren Edgar: After a steep drive Sol 2094, Curiosity is back over the crest of Vera Rubin Ridge and enjoying the view of flatter terrain ahead. I was the SOWG Chair … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Crosby, Curiosity, Duluth, Gale Crater, Hekkla Lake, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: A dusty day on Mars
Sols 2088-89, June 20, 2018, update by MSL scientist Mark Salvatore: Over the past week or so, Curiosity has experienced increasingly dusty conditions in Gale crater. Unlike her older cousin Opportunity on the other side of the planet, Curiosity is … Continue reading
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Tagged Beaver Bay, Breakwater, Cape Byron, Duluth, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Moose Mountain, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Curiosity captures thickening haze as dust storm goes global
A storm of tiny dust particles has engulfed much of Mars over the last two weeks and prompted NASA’s Opportunity rover to suspend science operations. But across the planet, NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been studying Martian soil at Gale … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Duluth, dust storms, Gale Crater, global dust storm, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Slippery slope
Sol 2087, June 19, 2018, update by MSL scientist Michelle Minitti: Curiosity pulled away from the “Duluth” site yesterday, but given the blocky nature of the “Blunts Point” member and the sand in between those blocks, she did not get … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Ambridge, Blunts Point, Curiosity, Duluth, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity: Looking north toward an invisible rim
Sol 2087, June 20, 2018. Seven Navcam frames composited into a panorama show that dusty air is hiding the north rim of Gale Crater. Duluth lies in the foreground, near left. At right is the Remote Micro-Imager’s four-frame take on … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Ambridge, Curiosity, Duluth, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Vera Rubin Ridge
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