Sols 3314-3315: Bountiful, Beautiful Boulders!
The engineers at JPL responsible for driving Curiosity yet again delivered a perfect drive to some boulders that the science ...
Tag: Curiosity
Rocky roads through Lanzarote
Take away the clouds, bulk up the humans with suits and add an orange-red filter and this could be an ...
Curiosity continues to dine on Zechstein drill fines
The SAM and CheMin instrument teams decided that they did not require further analyses of the "Zechstein" drill sample. It ...
Curiosity helping make Mars safer for astronauts
A radiation sensor aboard the spacecraft is providing new data on the health risks humans would face on the surface. ...
Still lots to do at the Zechstein drill locale
We are in the midst of the Zechstein drilling campaign. The SAM team are eagerly waiting for the results of ...
Curiosity powers on with extra energy for Martian science
When the operations team logged on today, we were prepared to pick up where Monday's team had left off in ...
Docking the Perseverance robotic arm
Every time we collect a rock sample on Mars, Perseverance performs an hours-long set of carefully choreographed operations with its ...
Sols 3292-3293: Celebrating Zechstein with a Science Feast
We did it! Yet another successful hole has been drilled in Mars! Welcome to the family, "Zechstein!" Tosol, Curiosity is ...
Sols 3287-3288: Assessing a New Potential Drill Target
After our short bump on Tuesday, Curiosity has reached a new potential drill location. When we first arrived at the ...
Sol 3285: Oh So Close
The drive over the weekend was successful, gaining us more than 6 m in elevation - not bad for a ...