Tag Archives: Inverness

Curiosity report, Sols 2163-2256, by Emily Lakdawalla, The Planetary Society

Posted on December 13, 2018 by rburnham

It’s been a challenging few months on the Curiosity mission, but the team’s hard work and persistence has saw them recover from a major computer anomaly and make progress on science goals at Vera Rubin ridge. Curiosity has been exploring … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Go for drilling at Highfield!

Posted on November 8, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2224, November 8, 2018, update by MSL scientist Mark Salvatore: Today was a good day on Mars. The science and engineering teams are making preparations to drill a patch of grey bedrock named “Highfield”, which will be our latest … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Curiosity goes bump!

Posted on November 5, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2219-21, November 2, 2018, update by MSL scientist Kristen Bennett: Yesterday Curiosity drove for the first time since sol 2166! Our intrepid explorer is truly back at it after a few weeks off due to the anomaly. The short … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Looking closely at Grange

Posted on November 1, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2216, October 31, 2018. Curiosity’s Remote Micro-Imager took a two frame close-up on the target dubbed Grange (right). The location of Grange is shown by the yellow arrow in the Mastcam image from Sol 2214 (Oct 29); to the … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: A BOO-tiful Halloween on Mars

Posted on November 1, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2217, November 1, 2018, update by MSL scientist Lucy Thompson: Today was an exciting day for me as a member of the APXS team and filling the role of payload uplink lead, as Sol 2217 marked a return to … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Mastcam views, near and far

Posted on October 30, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2214, October 29, 2018. Curiosity’s Mastcam (34 mm lens) shot a six-frame portrait of the rover’s workspace (above), with the partial drill hole at Inverness in the middle. Below, a sequence of frames showing the terrain lying to the … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: A windswept workspace

Posted on October 30, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2216, October 29, 2018, update by MSL scientist Melissa Rice: Today was the first day of planning with the full science team since Curiosity had an anomaly on sol 2172. It has been over a month since we last … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Science is baaaack!

Posted on October 19, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2204, October 19, 2018, update by MSL scientist Sarah Lamm: Contrary to the “frightening” title, the Curiosity team is excited that science operations are starting to resume! The real fright was when Curiosity had an anomaly on Sol 2172 … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Who’d have thought that Ridge rocks could be so hard

Posted on September 18, 2018 by rburnham

Sols 2172-74, September 17, 2018, update by MSL scientist Vivian Sun: Last night we learned that our drill attempt on “Inverness” was not successful, reaching only 4 mm into the rock. Today’s tactical team bounced back from this news and … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Shallow drill pit at Inverness

Posted on September 17, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2172, September 15, 2018. The rover’s MAHLI camera recorded the results of the drill’s action at the Inverness target — a shallow pit rather than a hole. Click image to enlarge it. Sol 2172 raw images (from all cameras).

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