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Curiosity: Egg Rock, a small meteorite

Posted on October 31, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1505, October 30, 2016. The ChemCam’s Remote Micro-Imager (RMI) nabbed a two-frame portrait of Egg Rock, a small meteorite, probably nickel-iron. The white dots are laser-zap points. Below: where the meteorite was found (arrow), in a Mastcam frame on … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Simple plan

Posted on October 28, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1503, October 28, 2016, update by USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: Everything went well in yesterday’s plan, with our drive taking us 25 meters farther along our “Mt. Sharp Ascent Route.” We started the day with some challenges caused by … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Short drive

Posted on October 27, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1502, October 26, 2016, update by USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: Yesterday’s 46 meter drive went well, and the plan for Sol 1502 is to have another pretty typical remote sensing and driving sol. The Sol 1502 plan starts out … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Welcome to Bar Harbor

Posted on October 26, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1501, October 25, 2016, update by USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: On Sol 1500 Curiosity drove 30 m to the south, crossing into a quadrangle that we informally named “Bar Harbor,” after Bar Harbor, Maine.  As a reminder, prior to … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Onward and southward

Posted on October 25, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1500, October 25, 2016. A landmark sol (!), and five Navcam frames capture the view ahead of the rover after it rolls away from the Sebina drill hole. At left and right edges stand outliers of the Murray Buttes, … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: So long, Sebina!

Posted on October 25, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1500, October 24, 2016, update by USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Over the weekend Curiosity completed her investigation of the “Sebina” drill site, and we’re back on the road again.  Before we hit the road we took another MAHLI image … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Mastcam pair at Sebina drill hole

Posted on October 24, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1498, October 23, 2016. The Mastcam shot the Sebina drill hole with both lenses, the 34mm wide-angle lens (top right) and the 100mm. The color difference between them may result from the 3h+ that elapsed between the two images. … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: A very busy weekend

Posted on October 22, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1497-99, October 21, 2016, update by USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: We’ve got quite a plan in store for the weekend, with every single instrument doing something, multiple arm activities, and a drive. Curiosity’s battery will be run all the … Continue reading →

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Curiosity update: Successful drill!

Posted on October 21, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1496, October 21, 2016, update by USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Yesterday’s plan went well and we have a new drill hole on Mars! The plan for Sol 1496 starts with a ChemCam passive observation of the dump pile of … Continue reading →

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Curiosity: Drill hole at Sebina

Posted on October 21, 2016 by rburnham

Sol 1496, October 21, 2016. Curiosity did its full drill on the target named Sebina, as seen in the cropped Navcam frame above and in the MAHLI shot at right. Note the nodules shown in the MAHLI frame. (Both images … Continue reading →

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