-
Recent Posts
Archives
Links
general
mission instruments
- CRISM: Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars
- CTX: Context Camera
- HiRISE: High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
- MARSIS: Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding
- SHARAD: Shallow Radar
- THEMIS: Thermal Emission Imaging System
missions
- All Mars missions list
- Curiosity rover
- ExoMars
- Hope (al-Amal) orbiter
- InSight
- Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN)
- Mars Exploration Rovers (MER)
- Mars Express (MEX)
- Mars Odyssey
- Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) / Mangalyaan
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
- Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
- Perseverance Rover
- Tianwen-1 orbiter/rover
news
Tag Archives: Rock Hall
Curiosity: Farewell to Vera Rubin Ridge
NASA’s Curiosity rover has taken its last selfie on Vera Rubin Ridge and descended toward a clay region of Mount Sharp. The twisting ridge on Mars has been the rover’s home for more than a year, providing scientists with new … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged Aeolis Mons, CBU, clay-bearing unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rock Hall, Vera Rubin Ridge
Comments Off
Curiosity update: Just can’t wait to get on the road again
Sols 2295-97, January 18, 2019, update by MSL scientist Melissa Rice: Sometimes the best laid plans of rovers go astray. After wrapping up at the Rock Hall drill site yesterday, the plan was for Curiosity to start driving towards the … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rock Hall, St Cyrus, St Cyrus 3, St Ninians Tombolo, Stac Pollaidh, Vera Rubin Ridge
Comments Off
Curiosity update: On the road again
Sols 2293-94, January 17, 2019, update by MSL scientist Michelle Minitti: It has been a productive stay at the “Rock Hall” drill site. The number and diversity of analyses performed on the drill target and drilled sample itself – mineralogy … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Curiosity wheels, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rock Hall, rover wheels, Vera Rubin Ridge, wheel wear
Comments Off
Curiosity update: Dust to dust
Sol 2292, January 17, 2019, update by MSL scientists Brittney Cooper and Claire Newman: Today was our last day at “Rock Hall,” so it was our final chance to get every last bit of science at this location. We had … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, dust, dust storms, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rock Hall, St Cyrus, St Cyrus 2, Vera Rubin Ridge
Comments Off
Curiosity update: Selfie time at Rock Hall: say cheese!
Sols 2291, January 14, 2019, update by MSL scientist Rachel Kronyak: Today we planned a single sol of activities, Sol 2291. As we begin to wrap up our activities at the Rock Hall drill site, Sol 2291 is chock full … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Loch Monar, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rock Hall, Stroma, Vera Rubin Ridge
Comments Off
Curiosity update: Drilling activity completed, almost
Sols 2288-90, January 11, 2019, update by MSL scientist Suzanne Schwenzer: We will soon be leaving the Rock Hall area, thus this one last look at the drill site from a hazard camera perspective. Seeing those holes always is special, … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Dufftown, Gale Crater, Lairg, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rock Hall, Vera Rubin Ridge
Comments Off
Curiosity update: Starting the wrap-up at Rock Hall
Sols 2286-87, January 10, 2019, update by MSL scientist Catherine O’Connell-Cooper: Our onboard instruments SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) and CheMin (Chemistry and Mineralogy) have come to the end of their investigation of the Rock Hall target, likely to be … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged Aeolis Mons, Braeriach, Burra, Curiosity, Deveron, Gale Crater, Gometra, Greenheugh, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rock Hall, Vera Rubin Ridge
Comments Off
Curiosity update: A spectra-cular Monday on Mars
Sols 2284-85, January 7, 2019, update by MSL scientist Mariah Baker: Today was a very smooth planning day on Mars, with the first scheduled science block in the plan being entirely filled by various spectroscopic ChemCam observations. The ChemCam instrument … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged Aeolis Mons, Coatsbridge, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Pitscurrie, Rock Hall, Vera Rubin Ridge
Comments Off
Curiosity update: It’s a wonderful day for SAM
Sols 2281-83, January 7, 2019, update by MSL scientist Vivian Sun: Today we are continuing the drill campaign at our red Jura target “Rock Hall.” The focus of this weekend’s plan is the dropoff of the Rock Hall sample to … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Gometra, Gruinard Bay, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Rock Hall, St Cyrus, Vera Rubin Ridge
Comments Off
Curiosity update: Happy 2019, Earthlings!
Sols 2279-80, January 4, 2019, update by MSL scientist Claire Newman: The holiday planning completed successfully and included 10 sols of five-hour-long morning meteorological observations by REMS, during the period when more complex activities were precluded. The main goals for … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged Aeolis Mons, Bothwell, Curiosity, Fishertown, Gale Crater, Jura, Luskentyre, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Port Askaig, Portnockie, Rock Hall, Vera Rubin Ridge
Comments Off