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Tag Archives: Opportunity
Mars Express: As the dust storm rolled in
The high resolution stereo camera on board ESA’s Mars Express captured this impressive upwelling front of dust clouds – visible in the right half of the frame – near the north polar ice cap of Mars in April this year. … Continue reading
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Tagged DLR, dust storms, ESA, European Space Agency, FU Berlin, global dust storms, High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Express, MER, MEX, NASA, Opportunity, weather
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Opportunity field report, July 5, 2018
Sol 5135, July 5, 2018: Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: Opportunity is hunkered down in the floor of Perseverance Valley here on the inner wall of Endeavour … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, La Bajada, La Joya, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, Socorro
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Opportunity report, Sol 5132, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
July 4, 2018: Opportunity Sleeps as Storm Chasers Study Planet-Encircling Dust Cloud: As a monster dust storm grew to encircle the Red Planet in June, Opportunity spent most of the month in the dark, presumably sleeping in a hibernation mode … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, dust storms, Endeavour Crater, global dust storms, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, temperature, weather
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NASA Mars Report: July 3, 2018
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Cape Byron, closest approach, Curiosity, dust storms, Endeavour Crater, Gale Crater, global dust storms, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Science Laboratory, MER, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Opportunity, opposition, Perseverance Valley, temperature, Vera Rubin Ridge, weather
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MARCI weather report, June 18-24, 2018
The planet-encircling dust event endured across Mars last week. As the week progressed, storm activity expanded over Solis-Sinai, Aonia, and Sirenum. Dusty conditions also continued from Isidis to Olympus and from Argyre to western Sirenum. Storm activity south of Hellas, … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, clouds, dust, dust storms, global dust storms, haze, Malin Space Science Systems, MARCI, Mars Color Imager, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MER, MRO, MSSS, NASA, Opportunity, storms, weather, wind
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Curiosity update: A dusty day on Mars
Sols 2088-89, June 20, 2018, update by MSL scientist Mark Salvatore: Over the past week or so, Curiosity has experienced increasingly dusty conditions in Gale crater. Unlike her older cousin Opportunity on the other side of the planet, Curiosity is … Continue reading
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Tagged Beaver Bay, Breakwater, Cape Byron, Duluth, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, Moose Mountain, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity special report by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
June 15, 2018: Opportunity Pummelled by Massive Dust Storm, Hunkers Down to Sleep: Entrenched in the west rim of Endeavour Crater, veteran robot field geologist Opportunity is hunkered down in Perseverance Valley in a kind of hibernation mode. The rover … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, dust storms, Endeavour Crater, global dust storms, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Opportunity field report, June 14, 2018
Sol 5114, June 14, 2018: Rover Field Report by Larry Crumpler, MER Science Team & New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science: Opportunity was continuing to gather data from outcrops in Perseverance Valley up until the end of May … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, Endeavour Crater, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley
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Curiosity update: New MAHLI selfie
Sol 2082, June 14, 2018, update by MSL scientist Ken Herkenhoff: The investigation of the Duluth drill hole is going well, and is expected to continue on Sol 2082. First, MAHLI will take a picture of the drill tailings to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Duluth, dust storms, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Opportunity, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Four NASA spacecraft tackle dust-storm science
One of the thickest dust storms ever observed on Mars has been spreading for the past week and a half. The storm has caused NASA’s Opportunity rover to suspend science operations, but also offers a window for four other spacecraft … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity, dust storms, global dust storms, Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN, Opportunity
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