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Tag Archives: Gale Crater
Curiosity: Hazcam shows Morningside
Sol 2426, June 3, 2019. With Curiosity parked at Morningside, the front Hazcam took a scene-setting image showing the layered outcrop (center) and its surroundings, with Vera Rubin Ridge in the background at right. Click the image to enlarge it. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Morningside, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: West Side Multispectral Story
Sols 2424-26, June 3, 2019, update by MSL scientist Sarah Lamm: Today we planned the weekend activities for Curiosity in Woodland Bay. Woodland Bay is a location in Glen Torridon, in the clay bearing unit. Over the next three sols, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Morningside, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Water Haven, Watten, West Side, West Wemyss, Wester Ross, Whiteadder, Woodland Bay
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Curiosity: MAHLI shoots Morningside, a layered outcrop
Sol 2424, June 1, 2019. The rover’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) shot a multi-frame portrait (above, 4.6 MB) of Morningside, a layered outcrop at the Woodland Bay area where Curiosity is parked. Morningside contains multiple targets of interest. At … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Morningside, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Woodland Bay
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Curiosity update: Familiar rocks at our feet
Sols 2422-23, June 3, 2019, update by MSL scientist Lauren Edgar: On Sol 2420 Curiosity drove ~61 m back to the “Woodland Bay” target, to analyze some interesting thick and thin laminations within the bedrock that we had observed previously, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Crakaig, Curiosity, Esk, Fladen, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Woodland Bay
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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, global dust storms, 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 catches clouds, and a cache of clay
NASA’s Curiosity rover has confirmed that the region on Mars it’s exploring, called the “clay-bearing unit,” is well deserving of its name. Two samples the rover recently drilled at rock targets called “Aberlady” and “Kilmarie” have revealed the highest amounts … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberlady, Aeolis Mons, atmosphere, CBU, clay-bearing unit, clouds, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Kilmarie, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity: Return to Woodland Bay
Sol 2420, May 28, 2019. Two sets of Curiosity wheel tracks are visible at right in this Navcam composite view. Mission scientists commanded the rover to return to a possible drill site, the layered outcrop dubbed Woodland Bay (circled), first … 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, Woodland Bay
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Curiosity update: Easy driving
Sols 2419-21, May 28, 2019, update by MSL scientist Dawn Sumner: We’ve left multiple tracks across the cobblestone plain of Glen Torridon. This image shows our current view to the northeast, with the slope of Mount Sharp on the right … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Cumbernauld, Cupar, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Hillhead, Kinghorn, Kintore, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Scolty Bay, Tomintoul, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Drill no go — time for Plan B
Sols 2416-18, May 24, 2019, update by MSL scientist Catherine O’Connell-Cooper: At the start of today’s planning, the Geology theme group (GEO) had a major decision to make, whether to drill here at “Broad Cairn” or not. Unfortunately, APXS data … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Broad Cairn, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Craighead Quarry, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Hallaig, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Woodland Bay
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Curiosity update: Cairn today, drill tomorrow?
Sol 2415, May 23, 2019, update by MSL scientist Fred Calef: After a short six meter drive to “Hallaig,” the science team began the investigation of a new potential drill target named “Broad Cairn,” a flat spot on a bright … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Broad Cairn, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Glen Torridon, Hallaig, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA
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