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1 March 2018
Sols 1980: Back to science
Today, Sol 1980, we’re taking a break from drilling activities to continue with our remote science campaign at our current location.
28 February 2018
Sol 1979: Mars Strikes Back
It is an exciting time for the Curiosity team. Although the drill was able to create a hole, Mars stubbornly refused to let the drill reach a depth where a rock sample could be collected and has driven Curiosity away from ‘Lake_Orcadie’.
26 February 2018
Sols 1974-1976: Ready, Set…Hold
After a successful drill preload test, Curiosity was primed to drill for the first time in about a year.
24 February 2018
Sol 1973: Go for Drilling!
Curiosity is officially go for drilling the ‘Lake Orcadie’ target! After more than a year’s wait for the drill to come back online, the rover planners and engineers are confident and ready to proceed…
21 February 2018
Sol 1972: Finishing Up Observations of Ogunquit Beach
Tosol (Today) on Mars we planned to finish up our suite of observations on the ‘Ogunquit Beach’ sand sample that was off-loaded from the rover over the weekend.
20 February 2018
Sol 1971: Piling on
Over the weekend, Curiosity successfully off-loaded the sample she acquired previously, the ‘Ogunquit Beach’ sand sample, in preparation for what the science team hopes is acquisition of a new *drilled* rock sample very soon.
18 February 2018
Sol 1968-1970: Dumping Ogunquit Beach sample
We got lots of good news this morning: The DRT brushing of the potential drill target completed successfully, as did SAM‘s recent analysis of the Ogunquit Beach sample, and the Curiosity rover is healthy and ready for more!
17 February 2018
Sols 1966-1967: Studying a potential drill target
We had several options today, including mobility and contact science with or without brushing, which made for an interesting day for me…
14 February 2018
Sol 1965: Torrid(on) pace
For the last several months, the science, engineering and operations teams have only met three days a week to plan activities for Curiosity in order to give the engineers more time to focus on bringing the drill back online. This week, we returned to planning five days a week as we continue to traverse east across the ‘Vera Rubin Ridge’…
13 February 2018
Sol 1964: A Personal Touch
Like yesterday, today’s plan for Curiosity is a bit on the thin side, as the rover’s power allotment will be primarily dedicated to activities associated with the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) and its preparation for a planned power-hungry experiment in tomorrow’s plan.
