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Tag Archives: Stimson Formation
Curiosity update: Touch and go
Sol 1344-45, May 16, 2016, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: The drive planned last weekend completed successfully, moving MSL less than 6 meters into position for contact science on the rocks broken by the rover wheels. Planning is restricted … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Impalila, Lubango, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, Narubis, NASA, Naukluft Plateau, Stampriet, Stimson Formation, Swartmodder
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Curiosity: Rough on the rocks
Sol 1342, May 15, 2016. The rover’s Mastcam, using its 100-mm lens, took a nine-frame composite of some rocks at Lubango that were scuffed and scraped by Curiosity’s wheels. That action removed the rocks’ tawny dust coating and revealed the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Lubango, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Naukluft Plateau, Stimson Formation
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Curiosity update: A change of plans
Sol 1341-43, May 13, 2016, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: The MSL team was originally planning a long drive this weekend, but there was enough interest in the fresh rock surfaces exposed near the rover that we decided to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Kobos 3, Mariquita, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, Naob, NASA, Naukluft Plateau, Okoruso, Stimson Formation
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Curiosity: Taking shots at Okoruso
Sol 1338, May 11, 2016. Focusing on the tailings around the Okoruso drill site, ChemCam’s laser stitched two lines of sampling shots across the fine debris from the drill. The upper shot line just touched the inside of the hole … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Naukluft Plateau, Okoruso, Stimson Formation
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Curiosity update: Two Mars years!
Sol 1339-40, May 11, 2016, update from USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: Happy birthday, Curiosity! As of today, the rover has been on the surface of Mars for two Mars years (almost four Earth years)! To celebrate, we have a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Kobos 2, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Naukluft Plateau, Okoruso, Stimson Formation, Swartmodder
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Curiosity update: Two-day arm challenge, followed by a selfie
Sol 1337-38, May 9, 2016, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Today’s two-sol plan is going to be quite an arm workout for Curiosity. Over the weekend, Curiosity transferred and sieved the “Okoruso” drill sample, and analyzed it with CheMin. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Naukluft Plateau, Okoruso, Stimson Formation, Ubib
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Curiosity update: Successful drilling at Okoruso
Sol 1334-36, May 6, 2016, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Meet the latest drill hole on Mars: “Okoruso,” created on Sol 1332, seen in the above MAHLI image. Drilling activities went well on Sol 1332, so the weekend plan … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Langental, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Natas, Naukluft Plateau, Okoruso, Stimson Formation
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Curiosity update: Drilling at Okoruso
Sol 1332-33, May 4, 2016, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Contact science activities on Sol 1330 went well, and we’re ready to drill at “Okoruso.” As seen in the above MAHLI image, this target looks like pretty typical Stimson … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Kobos, Lubango, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Naukluft Plateau, Okoruso, Stimson Formation, Strathmore
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Curiosity update: Characterizing next drill site
Sol 1330-31, May 2, 2016, update from USGS scientist Lauren Edgar: Over the weekend, Curiosity completed the drilling investigation at Lubango, and we drove ~13 m to the “Ovitoto” area (note that this area is only ~4 m away from … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Kombat, Lubango, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Naukluft Plateau, Okoruso, Omatako, Ovitoto, Stimson Formation
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Curiosity: At the dumps
Sol 1327, April 30, 2016. At Lubango, the CHIMRA sample handling device dropped the sieved (fine) portion of the drill tailings on the ground for the APXS to analyze (upper left). To the upper right of the white debris next … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Lubango, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Naukluft Plateau, Stimson Formation
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