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5 December 2018
Sol 2252-2253: The Hunt for Red Jura
Even though they looked promising from a few meters away, this morning’s workspace images showed us that the red Jura rocks we had hoped to drill are too fractured to drill safely.
3 December 2018
Sol 2250-2251: Grey today, red tomorrow!
It is just a few sols since we drilled, yet sand has drifted in and parts of the drill fines have blown away. We were once more reminded, just how active Mars is!
2 December 2018
Sols 2247-2249: What a Week on Mars
And what a week it has been. InSight’s successful landing is surely the biggest news of the week. We now have a new robotic Martian ready to help unlock more clues about the origins, history, and evolution of Mars.
27 November 2018
Sol 2245-2246: Hunting shiny things!
Curiosity woke up to Mr Rogers ‘Please would you be my neighbour’ this morning to welcome InSight, and then got very busy at the Highfield drill site.
25 November 2018
Sols 2243-2244: Curiosity has a minor post-holiday hiccup, but is happy and healthy
Curiosity was happy and healthy after the Thanksgiving holiday, but experienced a minor post-holiday hiccup during a test of delivering sample portions to the workspace. The rover’s robotic arm tripped a safety limit such that the activity did not quite go to completion.
21 November 2018
Sol 2240-2242: Anticipating InSight’s Arrival
Today Curiosity is preparing for the imminent arrival of a new visitor to Mars, just as many of us are preparing for the out-of-town visitors who’ll be descending into our homes over the Thanksgiving holiday.
20 November 2018
Sol 2236-2239: No turkey, but many side dishes
Curiosity is planning a smorgasbord of science over the next few days as it awaits results from digesting the ‘Highfield’ drill target material.
16 November 2018
Sol 2233-2235: Monitoring Dynamic Modern Mars
It’s the windy season on Mars, and Curiosity’s activities this weekend include taking oodles of images at different times throughout the day to catch how the wind moves sand and dust around.
13 November 2018
Sol 2231-32: SAM goes to Highfield
Today we planned to deliver a sample of the ground up rock from our Highfield drill hole to the SAM instrument. The rover will open one of its SAM inlet covers and the arm will be moved over to the top of it…
11 November 2018
Sols 2229-2230: Preparing for more SAMple!
Following a successful weekend of science activities at the ‘Highfield’ drill site, today we’re planning Sols 2229-2230. We’re eagerly awaiting data from CheMin, which will tell us all about the mineralogy of our newest drill hole sample.
