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Tag Archives: Greenheugh
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: Scoping Greenheugh
Sol 2304, January 29, 2019. Curiosity used its Remote Micro-Imager to scope out a distant butte dubbed Greenheugh. Note the layers of sedimentary rocks. Click the image to enlarge it. Sol 2304 raw images (from all cameras).
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Greenheugh, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA
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Curiosity update: In the clay unit
Sols 2304-05, January 29, 2019, update by MSL scientist Christopher Edwards: Today’s plan found Curiosity solidly in new territory and the view couldn’t be more different than the patchy bedrock of the Vera Rubin Ridge. The workspace for the next … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Greenheugh, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, St Cyrus, St Fergus, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Starting the wrap-up at Rock Hall
Sols 2286-87, January 10, 2019, update by MSL scientist Catherine O’Connell-Cooper: Our onboard instruments SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) and CheMin (Chemistry and Mineralogy) have come to the end of their investigation of the Rock Hall target, likely to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Braeriach, Burra, Curiosity, Deveron, Gale Crater, Gometra, Greenheugh, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rock Hall, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: No turkey, but many side dishes
Sol 2236-39, November 19, 2018, update by MSL scientist Fred Calef: Curiosity is planning a smorgasbord of science over the next few days as it awaits results from digesting the “Highfield” drill target material. We’ll continue change detection observations including … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Greenheugh, Grey Mares Tail, Highfield, Little Todday, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rosemarkie, Sand Loch, Vera Rubin Ridge, Windyedge
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Curiosity update: The workspace that just keeps giving
Sol 2019, April 11, 2018, update by MSL scientist Lauren Edgar: For the past few sols Curiosity has been exploring a diverse assemblage of cobbles and boulders on Vera Rubin Ridge, trying to understand how this blocky deposit came to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Greenheugh, Mars Science Laboratory, Minginish, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rousay, Sanquhar, Vera Rubin Ridge
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