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6 April 2018
Sol 2014: Something new and different
Recently, something else caught our eye: dark cobbles and boulders exposed in patches, as seen in the above Mastcam image.
5 April 2018
Sol 2013: From Biwabik Back to Torridon
Factoids: Mars is the only known planet inhabited exclusively by active robots. It has been this way for over fourteen Earth years…
Sol 2012: Moving On
We always maximize every minute on Mars, so we planned to complete some needed activities before driving away.
1 April 2018
Sol 2011: Take Only Pictures, Leave Only Wheel Tracks
After the weekend drive, the rover ended up in a spot that was a little too unstable to pass the Slip Risk Assessment Process (SRAP).
30 March 2018
Sols 2008-2010: Exploring variations in composition, texture, and color
Yesterday Curiosity drove 35 m to the southeast, which set us up for some great contact science on the rim of a small impact crater.
29 March 2018
Sol 2007: "Today is a Shetland Day!"
The science team today had a few tough decisions to make to balance time and power.
28 March 2018
Sol 2006: Three (Martian) Years on the Surface!
As of ~9:00pm Pacific Daylight Time this evening, Curiosity will have made three revolutions around the Sun while exploring Gale crater. Quite a feat,…
Sol 2005: Squarely in the Red
After completing a nearly 55m drive, Curiosity found itself sitting right in the middle of the strongest spectral detection of hematite identified along its path up Mt. Sharp.
27 March 2018
Sol 2004: Let’s try that one more time
For Sol 2004, Curiosity threw it back to the 2004’s sleeper hit Mean Girls when the rover said, ‘Stop trying to make ‘drive’ happen.’
24 March 2018
2001: A Mars Odyssey
Hearing the theme song to the famous movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was the perfect start to sol 2001 planning and inspired us to chose two new target names that were as close to A Space Odyssey as we could get: ‘Boddam’ ((David) Bowman) and ‘Kirkcudbright’ ((Stanley) Kubrick).
