Tag Archives: Greenhorn

Curiosity update: ‘Arm diagnostics’

Posted on December 23, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1201-02, December 22, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: Based on the latest images from Navcam, Hazcam, and Mastcam it looks like at least some of the “Greenhorn” sample was dumped before the arm ran into difficulties.The plan … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘The best laid plans…’

Posted on December 22, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1200-01, December 21, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: Unfortunately, over the weekend there was an issue with the rover’s arm while the “Greenhorn” sample was being dumped, which caused the rover to stop what it was doing. … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Dune imaging & dumping the Greenhorn sample’

Posted on December 19, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1198-99, December 18, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: On Sol 1196 Curiosity drove an additional 33 m closer to the lee side of “Namib Dune.”  The Mastcam images that we took earlier this week are coming down … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Recipe for a successful rover plan’

Posted on November 26, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1177-79, November 25, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: The 28 m drive on Sol 1174 ran successfully and Curiosity is now parked in front of a beautiful sand sheet and sand dune! Today science and engineering teams … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Lowdown on drill holes

Posted on November 18, 2015 by rburnham

From Emily Lakdawalla’s blog at The Planetary Society: This is going to be a rather short update about a rather long period of Curiosity’s Mars exploration. Its posting was delayed a bit due to my travel to the Division for … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘View of Meeteetse’

Posted on October 27, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1146-1147, October 26, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: The weekend drive was successful, placing us nicely on an overlook of the “Meeteetse” area. The focus for Sol 1146 is to get some good color stereo images of the … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Last observations at Greenhorn and driving away’

Posted on October 24, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1142-1145, October 22, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: After a successful investigation focused on alteration zones around fractures, it’s time to move on.  We’re still chewing on data from the “Greenhorn” and “Big Sky” drill samples, but … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Nighttime imaging’

Posted on October 23, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1142, October 22, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: The Sol 1141 activities completed as expected, and the rover’s batteries are charged up enough to allow both daytime and nighttime activities in today’s plan.  First, the unsieved part … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Recharging batteries’

Posted on October 22, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1141, October 21, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: There was a problem processing the latest data from MSL at the Deep Space Network station that received it, but the data are now available and confirm that the … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Zapping the drill hole wall’

Posted on October 20, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1140, October 20, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: The ChemCam RMI images of the drill hole planned yesterday were successfully acquired and received, and were used today to plan 2 parallel LIBS rasters down the hole.  The … Continue reading →

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