Tag Archives: Mars Science Laboratory

Curiosity update: No candy, just science for Curiosity

Posted on November 3, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2218, November 1, 2018, update by MSL scientist Sarah Lamm: Curiosity had a good Halloween because it had resumed contact science. Today, Curiosity will have a targeted science block, drive, and then have an untargeted science block. MAHLI will … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Test drive

Posted on November 2, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2218, November 2, 2018. Mission controllers directed Curiosity to make a test drive to the southwest a short distance. The Navcam composite above shows what lies ahead of Curiosity at drive’s end. Click the image to enlarge it. Sol … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: MAHLI tackles Grange

Posted on November 1, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2217, November 1, 2018. The Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) has taken a look at Grange. At right is a six-frame composite closeup.  The image enlarges when clicked. Sol 2217 raw images (from all cameras).

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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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Weather update from Gale Crater

Posted on November 1, 2018 by rburnham
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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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Closer to solving the methane mystery

Posted on October 29, 2018 by rburnham

Planetary scientists are getting closer to solving the puzzle of methane on Mars. New calculations could help to explain why NASA’s Curiosity rover detects peaks of methane gas in the Martian atmosphere during the planet’s northern summer. As winter gives … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Eyes on the sky

Posted on October 27, 2018 by rburnham

Sols 2213-2215, October 24, 2018, update by MSL scientist Lauren Edgar: The focus of today’s three-sol plan is environmental monitoring. I’ll be on duty as SOWG Chair on Monday, so I dialed in today to get up to speed. The … Continue reading →

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