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25 April 2018
Sols 2034-2035: Descending Vera Rubin Ridge
Curiosity is continuing her march to the north and west, descending through the stratigraphic layers exposed in Vera Rubin Ridge and working her way back towards the unit known as the Blunts Point member…
24 April 2018
Sol 2032-2033: The Rocks vs. Stone Cold Aluminum Wheels
The rover is currently skirting around the southern edge of a small, blocky impact crater on its way north off the Vera Rubin Ridge. One of the activities we did this weekend was use MAHLI to take images of the rover wheels.
23 April 2018
Sol 2029-2031: Booking it Through Biwabik
Curiosity drove a whopping ~85 m to the northwest in the sol 2027 plan. Besides being long, this drive was remarkable because it marked a shift in Curiosity’s strategic campaign…
22 April 2018
Sol 2027-28: A Change of Season
The atmosphere is beginning to get dustier, as seen by the hazy look of the northern rim in Gale Crater in this image.
16 April 2018
Sols 2025-2026: From Float Rocks to Suilven Ripple
Over the weekend Curiosity completed a 13 meter drive from some interesting float rocks including some potential breccias to ‘Suilven Ripple’, a sand ripple where it will characterize the grain sizes and ripple morphology.
15 April 2018
Sols 2022-2024: Waternish extravaganza
The Sol 2020 drive was completed successfully, placing Curiosity in a good position for contact science on the Waternish conglomerate.
11 April 2018
Sol 2020-2021: Leaving Bressay
The top science priority for this plan for Curiosity is to acquire all of the data needed to adequately characterize the rocks at the current location before driving away.
Sol 2019: The workspace that just keeps giving
We’ve been really excited by the diversity of rock types, as seen in the above Mastcam image. The team decided to stay for one more full day of contact science before driving away in tomorrow’s plan.
10 April 2018
Sol 2018: Rock Garden
An eclectic mix of rock targets has kept our team’s attention for another sol today. The sheer number of possible science investigations led us to initially oversubscribing our science plan and thus needing to prioritize.
7 April 2018
Sols 2015-2017: Rover in a candy store
Like Harry Potter in Honeydukes or Charlie in the Chocolate Factory, Curiosity rolled up to the proverbial candy store today, wondering ‘where to begin?!’
