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29 October 2017
Sol 1858-1860: A Working Weekend
Despite setbacks, the Curiosity team is optimistic moving into the weekend, and has planned a really nice suite of observations.
28 October 2017
Sol 1856-1857: Take two (almost)!
After Monday’s communications hiccup (detailed here) that prevented us from uplinking our two-sol plan to Curiosity, today we’re hoping to redo most of what we had in Monday’s plan.
24 October 2017
Sol 1853-54: Space is Hard
Our exploration of space, and Gale Crater specifically, is enabled by incredible technology and amazing engineers and scientists. But, circumstances constantly remind us that space is hard.
21 October 2017
Sol 1852: Feeding SAM some sand
Curiosity drove over 20 meters on Sol 1850, to an area with lots of bedrock exposed.
18 October 2017
Sol 1850-1851: A Change of Scenery
Following Curiosity’s drive two days ago, the team found a local landscape dominated by small cobbles and pebbles with an abundance of fine soil surrounding these fragments.
17 October 2017
Sols 1848-1849: How far we’ve come
It wasn’t until I sat down to write this blog that I fully processed how far we’ve come and just how awesome Curiosity’s ‘office’ is.
16 October 2017
Sol 1843-44: Winter is Coming
The seasons on Mars are long, and even though Curiosity is near the equator, the change in weather between the seasons is noticeable and winter is coming to Gale Crater.
14 October 2017
Sol 1845-1847: Game of inches
There’s a line in the halftime scene of the movie ‘Any Given Sunday’: ‘life’s this game of inches…the margin for error is so small.’ The same is true on Mars.
9 October 2017
Sols 1841-1842: Who ever said roving around Mars was easy?
When you take a step back and think about all of the things that must go right in order to perform scientific investigations on the surface of Mars, it’s hard to believe that we EVER get things accomplished!
8 October 2017
Sol 1838: Planning on Limited Data
Curiosity takes in the view from Vera Rubin Ridge.
