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3 January 2019
Sols 2279-2280: Happy 2019, Earthlings!
The holiday planning completed successfully and included 10 sols of five-hour-long morning meteorological observations…
20 December 2018
Sols 2276-2278: Capturing Light into the New Year
As we cross the winter solstice and daylight lengthens here on Earth, the Vera Rubin Ridge campaign on Mars is shortening up towards a science-filled end ‘capturing the light’ across all its splendid spectrum.
19 December 2018
Sols 2265-2275: Curiosity planning for the holidays
Planning today revolved around making sure that Curiosity has enough power after the Christmas holidays to be able to continue analyzing ‘Rock Hall,’ the red Jura sample that we successfully drilled last weekend.
18 December 2018
Sol 2164: Science and Good Times at Rock Hall
We are still very excited and happy that the final drill hole, ‘Rock Hall,’ on Vera Rubin Ridge was successful over the weekend. Now we get to analyze the drilled sample with rover instruments.
17 December 2018
Sol 2163: We have sample!
At the end of last week, the team made the call to drill the rock ‘Rock Hall,’ and Curiosity had no problems drilling the target. The science team had been worried that this rock type, red Jura, might be particularly hard based on the observation that it commonly caps the highs on Vera Rubin Ridge.
16 December 2018
Sols 2160-2162: Go for Drill on the red Jura!
Today’s plan will centre around the drilling of what will hopefully be our 19th drill sample for analysis on Mars!
12 December 2018
Sols 2258-2259: Is THIS the red Jura we are looking for?
May the (drill) force be with us!
10 December 2018
Sol 2257: Makin’ the Most of It
Even on Mars, where every second of Curiosity’s sol is planned, things don’t always go quite as expected. This morning we learned that Curiosity didn’t complete her planned drive yesterday and instead stopped at the mid-drive point.
9 December 2018
Sol 2256: Hunt for red Jura continues…
After the science block, Curiosity will drive towards Region C, shown as the bright exposed bedrock in the mid-field of the Navcam image above.
8 December 2018
Sol 2254-2255: Thinking on Our Wheels
This Navcam image shows the outcrop of red Jura rock that the rover will image during the weekend drive. Obtaining higher resolution images of this exposure will help the team determine if it could be drilled next week.
