In search of a new marker band drill site: Sols 3708-3709
We continue to characterize the Marker Band and the bedrock just below it, with the aim of understanding the origin ...
Tag: Curiosity
Moving along the Marker Band: Sols 3705-3707
Curiosity is continuing to make the most of the new year - both on Earth and on Mars which recently ...
A New Year on Mars and a Brand-New Workspace: Sols 3702-3704
The team came into our first day of planning for 2023 to learn that all our holiday activities had executed ...
A Scuff for the New Year: Sols 3699-3702
Curiosity has executed two out of the ten sols we planned on Wednesday to cover the rover's activities through the ...
The 10 Days of Christmas: Sols 3689-3698
On the first sol of Christmas, Curiosity will bring to us; one APXS analysis, one ChemCam analysis and a multitude ...
Leaving the Amapari Drill Site: Sol 3687
Slight change of plans! The drive that Curiosity was supposed to complete over the weekend was pulled from her plan, ...
Sols 3682-3683: Perspective
In yesterday's blog, Natalie Moore wrote of our continued attempts to drill "Amapari" and word from our beloved rover that ...
Mars' thin and turbulent atmosphere leads to curiously sized dunes
Among the mountainous dunes and small, undulating ripples of Mars' desert-like surface are sand structures, intermediate in size, that are ...
Let's try that again Amapari: Sols 3677-3679
On Wednesday, we uplinked a drill plan, to drill the target "Amapari" in the Marker Band. Coming into planning this ...
Evaluating a Possible Drill Location
The weekend drive went well and Curiosity is back on top of the marker band, investigating some intriguing rippled bedrock. ...