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Tag Archives: Perseverance Valley
Opportunity: Dust storm may have peaked
NASA Mars Exploration Rover Status Report, August 2, 2018: The planet-encircling dust storm on Mars is showing indications of peaking and perhaps decaying. Dust lifting sites have decreased in extent and some surface features are starting to become visible. The storm … 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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Opportunity report, Sol 5162, by A.J.S. Rayl, The Planetary Society
August 1, 2018: Dust Storm Wanes, Opportunity Sleeps, Team Prepares Recovery Strategy: Opportunity may be seeing the light again, a little sunlight that is. As the veteran Mars Exploration Rover (MER) slept in Endeavour Crater’s Perseverance Valley under the thick … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Byron, dust storms, Endeavour Crater, global dust storms, Mars Exploration Rover, MER, NASA, Opportunity, PEDE, Perseverance Valley, planet-encircling dust event, weather
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Opportunity: Deep sleep continues beneath raging dust storm
[Editor note: Entry bumped because of update] NASA Mars Exploration Rover Status Report, updated at 2:25 p.m. PDT on July 26, 2018: It’s the beginning of the end for the planet-encircling dust storm on Mars. But it could still be … 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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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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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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Opportunity: Dust storm going global, rover likely in deep-sleep for weeks until skies clear
[Ed. note: Video replay of the briefing here, and a new NASA web page, Mars Storm Watch, here.] NASA scientists reported today that dust in the skies over Opportunity is thicker than ever seen before from the surface, and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity, dust storms, Endeavour Crater, global dust storms, MARCI, Mars Climate Sounder, Mars Color Imager, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Science Laboratory, MCS, MER, MRO, MSL, NASA, Opportunity, Perseverance Valley, REMS, Rover Environmental Monitoring Station
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