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 ...
Tag: Curiosity
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. ...
Sol 3676 Another: 'Bore-ing' Day on Mars
After yesterday's check-out, Curiosity is GO to attempt to make our 37th drill hole on Mars. The prior plan's DRT ...
Analyzing the rhythmically layered bedrock above the marker band: Sols 3669-3670
Curiosity drove ~25 meters back toward the Marker Band from our detour to the Gediz Vallis Ridge and has returned ...
Back to the Marker Band – Sols 3667-3668
Still stuffed and feeling thankful our weekend plans were successful! This morning's downlink showed we had more power to play ...
Thanksgiving Plan Part Two – Sols 3665-3666
Thanksgiving plan part two would of course include all the traditional pleasures we know - if you are in the ...