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Tag Archives: mineral veins
Curiosity: Cracked rock
Sol 1555, December 20, 2016. The Remote Micro-Imager took aim at a rock target showing a tile-like pattern of cracks that appear to be partly filled with minerals, likely deposited by water. The right side of the four-frame composite shows … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, mineral veins, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Remote Micro-Imager, RMI, Stimson Formation
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Gale Crater’s rock-ingredient stew seen as plus for habitability
Editor’s note: Press conference video here. NASA’s Curiosity rover is climbing a layered Martian mountain and finding evidence of how ancient lakes and wet underground environments changed, billions of years ago, creating more diverse chemical environments that affected their favorability … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, boron, calcium sulfates, clay minerals, Curiosity, Gale Crater, hematite, Mars Science Laboratory, mineral veins, Mount Sharp, MSL, mudstones, Murray Formation, NASA, Stimson Formation
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Curiosity: MAHLI looks at Kopong outcrop
Sol 1474, September 28, 2016. The Mars Hand-Lens Imager (MAHLI) has made a multi- frame composite (big: 5.9 MB) that sweeps down across the Kopong outcrop. (The area shown lies at the left end of the outcrop as imaged here, … Continue reading
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Evaporating lakes made veins in Mars rocks
Mineral veins found in Mars’s Gale Crater were formed by the evaporation of ancient Martian lakes, a new study has shown. [The study was published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.] The research, by Mars Science Laboratory Participating Scientists … Continue reading
Curiosity: MAHLI goes to work on veins, nodules
Sol 1278, March 11, 2016. Parked on a flat exposure of Murray Formation bedrock, with mineral veins and little nodules scattered on the rock, Curiosity put its hand-lens imager (MAHLI) to work. (See here and here for the backstory.) Sol … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, mineral veins, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Naukluft Plateau, nodules, Stimson Formation
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Curiosity: On a slabby outcrop with bright veins
Sol 1155, November 5, 2015. The right front Hazcam shows the rover with its leading wheels resting on an outcrop of slab-like rocks, shot through with light-colored veins. Below is a Navcam partial panorama looking generally west, with sand- filled … Continue reading
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Curiosity: Contact at Missoula
Sol 1051, July 22, 2015. Released as part of the news about Curiosity’s instruments finding silica-rich rocks is this mosaic of MAHLI images of the Missoula outcrop. Pale mudstone (bottom of outcrop) meets coarser sandstone (top) in this geological contact … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Apikuni Mountain, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Marias Pass, Mars Science Laboratory, mineral veins, Missoula, Mount Sharp, MSL, mudstones, NASA, sandstones
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Curiosity eyes prominent mineral veins
Two-tone mineral veins at a site NASA’s Curiosity rover has reached by climbing a layered Martian mountain offer clues about multiple episodes of fluid movement. These episodes occurred later than the wet environmental conditions that formed lake-bed deposits the rover … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Garden City, Mars Science Laboratory, mineral veins, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA
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Curiosity: Dunes, rocks, and veins in Artist’s Drive
Sol 942, April 1, 2015. Despite dunes and rocks, the Navcam shows a generally trafficable path down Artist’s Drive. This will be the onward route for Curiosity once it finishes up at Garden City and Kanosh. On the right-hand wall, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Artist's Drive, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Garden City, Kanosh, Mars Science Laboratory, mineral veins, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA
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Curiosity update: ‘Leaving Garden City’
Sols 939-941, March 27, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Ryan and I are working ChemCam tactical operations again today, planning 3 sols to get MSL through the upcoming weekend. We therefore focused on planning Sol 939 ChemCam observations … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Blanco Mountain, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Garden City, Idyllwild, Kanosh, Live Oak Canyon, Mars Science Laboratory, mineral veins, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA
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