Tag Archives: Missoula

Curiosity: ChemCam at Missoula, part 3

Posted on August 12, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1071, August 11, 2015. The third composite by ChemCam at the Missoula outcrop shows similar layering, but with different details. (Click to enlarge.) Sol 1071 raw images (from all cameras), and Curiosity’s latest location map.

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Curiosity: ChemCam at Missoula, part 2

Posted on August 12, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1071, August 11, 2015. More of the layered outcrop at Missoula; note the small spherules embedded in the rock. (Click to enlarge.) Sol 1071 raw images (from all cameras), and Curiosity’s latest location map.

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Curiosity update: ‘What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate’

Posted on August 12, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1071-1072, August 11, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: Unfortunately over the weekend there was an outage at the Deep Space Network, which prevented the plan for the weekend from being sent to Curiosity. So, instead of a … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: ChemCam at Missoula

Posted on August 11, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1071, August 11, 2015. With Opportunity back at the Missoula outcrop, the ChemCam has been busy making closeups on various parts of the layered outcrop. (Click to enlarge.) Sol 1071 raw images (from all cameras), and Curiosity’s latest location … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Back at Missoula’

Posted on August 8, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1068-1070, August 7, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Curiosity had a successful drive of 19 m on Sol 1067, and we are currently back at Missoula for more targeted science.  The goal is to perform a detailed … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Bumping to Missoula… sound familiar?’

Posted on August 6, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1067, August 6, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: With a familiar blog title, I report that in today’s plan we’re bumping towards the Missoula outcrop.  On Sol 1066 Curiosity drove ~ 25 m back toward Missoula, but … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Happy 3rd anniversary on Mars’

Posted on August 6, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1066, August 5, 2015, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Tonight marks the third anniversary of Curiosity’s landing in Gale crater.  It’s been a great three years, full of a number of important science discoveries.  Check out this video and … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Contact at Missoula

Posted on July 24, 2015 by rburnham

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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Curiosity: High-silica rocks found at Marias Pass

Posted on July 23, 2015 by rburnham

Approaching the third anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has found a target unlike anything it has studied before — bedrock with surprisingly high levels of silica. Silica is a rock-forming compound containing silicon and oxygen, … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: ‘Lots of contact science!’

Posted on July 2, 2015 by rburnham

Sol 1032, July 1, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: Phew! Today was a busy day on Mars! Ken and I were both on operations today, picking up where Lauren left off yesterday. Ken was helping with ChemCam science … Continue reading →

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