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Tag Archives: Stoer
Curiosity update: Return to Lake Orcadie!
Sol 2222, November 6, 2018, update by MSL scientist Catherine O’Connell-Cooper: Our attempts to drill grey rock on the “Vera Rubin Ridge” (VRR) continue. We are returning to an area known as “Lake Orcadie,” the site of two previous drill … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Duluth, Flotta, Gale Crater, Jura, Lake Orcadie, Lake Orcadie 2, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Things that go bump…
Sols 2163-64, September 5, 2018, update by MSL scientist Lucy Thompson: In our case, the Curiosity rover! The main focus of our 2-sol (sol – martian day) plan today is to bump (drive ~15 m) the rover into place for … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Eathie, Gale Crater, Laithach, Loch Eriboll, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Stoer, The Law, The Minch, Vera Rubin Ridge, Windy Hills
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Curiosity report, Sols 2093-2162, by Emily Lakdawalla, The Planetary Society
September 6, 2018: Three Tries to Successful Drill Atop Vera Rubin Ridge: Heedless of the (now-dissipating) dust storm, Curiosity has achieved its first successful drill into rocks that form the Vera Rubin ridge, and is hopefully on the way to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Ailsa Craig, Curiosity, Duluth, Gale Crater, hematite, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge, Voyageurs
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Curiosity surveys a mystery under dusty skies
After snagging a new rock sample on Aug. 9, NASA’s Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on Mars, producing a 360-degree panorama of its current location on Vera Rubin Ridge. The panorama includes umber skies, darkened by a fading global dust … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, hematite, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Pettegrove Point, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: The story of Stoer
Sol 2156 August 30, 2018, update by MSL scientist Abigail Fraeman: After an extremely productive couple of weeks, we are finishing up our work at Stoer! We’ll take some quick ChemCam and Mastcam observations of the tailings dump pile tosols … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Ailsa Craig, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge, Voyageurs
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Curiosity: Moving on
Sol 2156, August 30, 2018. Having finished operations at the Stoer site, Curiosity has driven toward the southeast about 130 feet (39 meters). The drive brought the rover onto a higher part of Vera Rubin Ridge and part of Mt … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: What a dump
Sol 2155 August 29, 2018, update by MSL scientist Ryan Anderson: Our second attempt at a dump was successful! The plan for Sol 2155 starts with a whole slew of Mastcam images to check out various components of the arm … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Bealach na Ba, Ben Macdui, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Laig Bay, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Stoer, Tarskavaig, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity: Stoer drill and dump sites
Sol 2154, August 28, 2018. With the rover parked at the Stoer drill site, the above Mastcam composite shows the drill site itself (right arrow) and the tailings dump site (left arrow). At right are MAHLI images of the two … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge
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Curiosity update: Look on the sunny side
Sol 2154, August 28, 2018, update by MSL scientist Michelle Minitti: If all had gone according to plan over the weekend, we would see a nice pile of drill fines in the above image. Alas, a slight hiccup in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, dust storms, Gale Crater, global dust storms, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge, weather
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Curiosity update: Delivering the proper proportions
Sol 2150, August 24, 2018, update by MSL scientist Roger Wiens: The big question coming into today was whether to re-do the SAM analysis or not. Now that the drill is being operated with the feed immobile in the extended … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, Curiosity, Duluth, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Papa Little, Stoer, Vera Rubin Ridge
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