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Tag Archives: Gale Crater
Fly over Gale Crater’s Mt. Sharp by video
Ever wanted to visit Mars? A new animated video shows what it would be like to soar over Mount Sharp, which NASA’s Curiosity rover has been climbing since 2014. This video highlights several regions on the mountain that are intriguing … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Gediz Vallis, Gediz Vallis Ridge, Greenheugh Pediment, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA, sulfate-bearing unit
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Curiosity update: Turning our wheels
Sol 2407, May 14, 2019, update by MSL scientist Abigail Fraeman: We’re driving today! …but only about three meters. After weeks of staying put while we completed drilling activities at “Kilmarie,” Curiosity is stretching her wheels. The main activity in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Kilmarie, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA
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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: Studying the sulfate-bearing unit
Sol 2396, May 3, 2019. The Remote Micro-Imager took a multi-frame composite of the sulfate-bearing unit’s layers seen in a distant outcrop. Click the image to enlarge it. Sol 2396 raw images (from all cameras).
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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, sulfate-bearing unit
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Curiosity: Looking near and far
Sol 2394, May 1, 2019. Curiosity’s Navcam looked ahead down the Glen Torridon “valley” toward Mt. Sharp, with Vera Rubin Ridge forming the skyline at left. At right is a four-frame composite by the Remote Micro-Imager on targets not far … 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, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Powering through
Sols 2395-96, May 2, 2019, update by MSL scientist Michelle Minitti: The drop off of “Kilmarie” drill sample to SAM on Sol 2293 appeared to be successful, but we will not get the full results of the SAM analysis until … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Deinabo, Dumyat, Durnhill, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Kilmarie, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, sulfate-bearing unit
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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: Putting the L in MSL
Sols 2393-94, April 29, 2019, update by MSL scientist Ryan Anderson: Today’s main activities use the “laboratory” instruments SAM and CheMin inside of Curiosity to analyze some of the powder from the Kilmarie drill hole. SAM will do an Evolved … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Kilmarie, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Tiffany, Tolmount
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Curiosity update: Confirmation of another taste of the ‘Clay-Bearing Unit,’ as good as the first?
Sols 2390-93, April 26, 2019, update by MSL scientist Lucy Thompson: We started planning in eager anticipation of the preliminary results from our downlink and whether the CheMin X-ray diffraction spectrometer received enough sample of the “Kilmarie” drill sample to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberlady, Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Greenheugh, Kilmarie, Mars Science Laboratory, Mile End, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, sulfate-bearing unit, Tillybrachty, Tillyfourie, Tillymorgan
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Curiosity: A shiny rock or two
Sol 2387, April 24, 2019. Curiosity’s Remote Micro-Imager shot two frames of a rock — or is it two of them? — with a shiny surface. Click the image to enlarge it. Sol 2387 raw images (from all cameras).
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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, Quirang
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