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Curiosity: Close-up on Garden City

Sol 930, March 19, 2015. To help mission scientists plan observations, the MAHLI (Mars Hand Lens Imager) shoots a multi-frame composite of a complex target area in a small part of the Garden City outcrop. (Click on the image to … Continue reading

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Curiosity update: ‘Arm science’

Sol 930-931, March 18, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: The MAHLI team was well prepared for contact science today, but had to scramble to react to news early this morning that the right front wheel is perched on … Continue reading

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Curiosity update: ‘Checking out Garden City’

Sol 928-929, March 16, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Over the weekend, Curiosity bumped closer to the target “Garden City” located in “Artist’s Drive.”  “Garden City” is an intriguing target because it contains a lot of really big … Continue reading

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Curiosity: Garden City

Sol 926, March 15, 2015. The target dubbed Garden City shows mineral “blades” rising above the cracks in the bedrock, in this multi-Navcam composite. (Click the image to open a larger version in a new tab.) In other locations in … Continue reading

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Curiosity update: ‘Garden City, here we come!’

Sol 924-927, March 13, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: Yesterday was a challenging day on Mars and Earth. On Mars, the rover stopped its drive early because it detected that its wheels were slipping in the sand, so … Continue reading

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Curiosity update: ‘Getting out of Dodge’

Sol 923, March 11, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: The plan for today, as our SOWG (Science Operations Working Group) chair put it, is to “get out of Dodge”! We will be driving to a location where we … Continue reading

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