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 ...
Tag: Mars
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 ...
The robotics of sampling regolith
The Perseverance rover recently collected its first two samples of Martian regolith! Regolith is dust and broken rock, and collecting ...
Experiencing a Dust Devil
Recently a combination of instruments on the Perseverance rover has experienced a dust devil in a new way. The SuperCam ...
Sound of a dust devil on Mars recorded for first time
The sound of a dust devil on Mars was recorded for the first time as the eye of the whirlwind ...
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 ...
These freeze-drying algae can awaken from cryostasis, could help spaceflights go farther
Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys contain some of Earth's coldest and driest deserts. The environment there is so extreme that the ...
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 ...
Martian dust devil analogues in the Mojave Desert #ASA183
In the Mojave Desert, the sun beats down on the ground and makes pockets of low pressure. Cool air rushes ...