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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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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: 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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Curiosity update: Getting back into the science swing of things!

Posted on October 26, 2018 by rburnham

Sols 2122-2212, October 24, 2018, update by MSL engineer Ashley Stroupe: While we are working toward understanding and recovering from the anomaly, Curiosity is slowly ramping back up into normal science operations. Earlier this week, we got our environmental instruments … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Test panoramas

Posted on October 25, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2210, October 24, 2018. In addition to Hazcam images taken throughout the day, Curiosity also shot a panorama series with left and right Navcams. The partial pans above (looking south) and below were taken with the right-side camera.  Click … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: All-day test

Posted on October 24, 2018 by rburnham

Sol 2209, October 23, 2018. Beginning at 10:22 a.m. local time and running to 5:55 p.m., Curiosity’s Navcams, and the A-side’s front and rear Hazcams, shot a series of left- and right-side pairs of images in an all-day test. The … Continue reading →

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