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3 May 2018
Sol 2040: Go West, Young Rover
Our drive from Sol 2039 was successful, and the plan for sol 2040 is to continue driving to the west…
30 April 2018
Sol 2039: All eyes on "Red Cliff"
Following some fantastic preliminary imaging from yestersol, today’s plan (Sol 2039) is dedicated to additional imaging of ‘Red Cliff’ before continuing to drive toward a location where we think we are likely to drill.
29 April 2018
Sols 2036-2037: Down the ridge she comes
Curiosity continues to pick her way downhill off the ‘Vera Rubin Ridge’ and onto the Murray formation rocks below.
Sol 2038: Enjoying the views
A successful drive in the weekend plan set Curiosity up nicely for a full sol of contact and remote science. The main priority during planning today was to image the outcrop we’ve called ‘Red Cliff,’ a beautiful vertical cliff face seen in the mid-field of the Navcam image above.
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.
