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Tag Archives: Opportunity
Opportunity report, Sol 5042, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
April 11, 2018: Opportunity Presses On in Perseverance, Pace Picks Up: In the west rim of Endeavour Crater, Opportunity continued her exploration of Perseverance Valley in March – humankind’s first study of a carved channel in an ancient crater on … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, impact melt, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, San Juan Pueblo, vesicular rock
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Opportunity: Parts of San Juan Pueblo in Pancam false color
Sol 5049 and 5051, April 7 and 9, 2018. As scientists study the rocks at the San Juan Pueblo site, they are using Opportunity’s multi-filter Pancam to identify different materials on the rocks’ surface. Above is a swath along the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, San Juan Pueblo
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Opportunty: Pancam profiles San Juan Pueblo
Sol 5046, April 4, 2018. The science team commanded Opportunity to shoot a series of filtered Pancam images on the parts of the San Juan Pueblo outcrop that lie a short distance upslope from the rover. The above composite uses … Continue reading
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Tagged basalt, Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, San Juan Pueblo, vesicular rock
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Curiosity update: From Biwabik back to Torridon
Sol 2013, April 4, 2018, update by MSL scientist Roger Wiens: Factoids: Mars is the only known planet inhabited exclusively by active robots. It has been this way for over fourteen Earth years, with a cumulative total of twenty-six Earth … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Arrochar, Biwabik, Curiosity, Foula, Gale Crater, Galloway, hematite, Kinloch, Lingarabay, Mars Science Laboratory, Mesabi Range, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Opportunity, Region 13, Suilven, Torridon, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Opportunity: MI closeup on San Juan Pueblo
Sol 5045, April 3, 2018. The outcrop named San Juan Pueblo shows a vesicular texture studded with hollows and voids, seen in this 2×2 mosaic by Opportunity’s Microscopic Imager. If this were a piece of basalt on Earth, it would … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, San Juan Pueblo, vesicular rock
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Opportunity: Vesicular rocks at San Juan Pueblo
Sol 5042, March 31, 2018. San Juan Pueblo is the name of the target Opportunity is now examining. Its rocks show vesicles — hollow voids — that are found commonly with volcanic rocks that form when gas-rich magma reaches the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, San Juan Pueblo, vesicular rock
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NASA Mars Report, March 30, 2018
NASA’s InSight arrives at Vandenberg AFB and readies for launch, Opportunity uses its abrasion tool for the first time in 300 sols, and Curiosity celebrates 2,000 Martian days on the Red Planet. For more about all of NASA’s Mars missions, … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, M2020, MarCO, Mars 2020, Mars 2020 rover, Mars Cube One, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Science Laboratory, MER, MSL, NASA, Opportunity
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Opportunity: Toward the valley’s southern side
Sol 5040, March 29, 2018. The rover took a set of Pancam frames with Aguas Calientes in full sunlight, then it turned to the south-southeast and motored a distance of 4.2 meters (almost 14 feet). This moved Opportunity toward the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aguas Calientes, Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, Ysleta del Sur
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Opportunity: Backing away from Aguas Calientes
Sol 5038, March 27, 2018. Opportunity backed uphill away from the Aguas Calientes grind target a distance of a meter (40 inches). Then the Pancam shot (right) a multi-filtered set of frames showing the grind target and nearby parts of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aguas Calientes, Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, Ysleta del Sur
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Opportunity: Aguas Calientes rimshots
Sol 5036, March 25, 2018. Over the weekend, Opportunity kept the Microscopic Imager with its nose to the outcrop, shooting a pair of images (above) on the upper rim of the grind hole in Aguas Calientes. Then it dropped below … Continue reading
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Tagged Aguas Calientes, Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, Ysleta del Sur
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