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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).
21 March 2018
Sol 2000: Roving for 2000 Martian Days
Today marks a milestone for Curiosity. Our trusty Martian rover has spent 2000 sols exploring Gale Crater helping to unravel the geologic history preserved in the rocks.
20 March 2018
Sol 1999: Party like it’s (Sol) 1999
Curiosity is but 1 sol away from a major mission milestone, but work always comes before celebrations.
18 March 2018
Sol 1998: Checking out the scenery
Today we planned for Sol 1998, which was mostly devoted to remote science observations as we drive along the Vera Rubin Ridge to our next area of interest.
17 March 2018
Sols 1995-1997: Under Durness
The science team gave Curiosity a workout in this plan, using just about every watt of power available to carry out a full slate of activities.
15 March 2018
Sols 1993-1994: Castle in the Sand
As we drive east across the top of ‘Vera Rubin Ridge’ – backwards no less! – we encountered another nice patch of bedrock in Curiosity’s workspace today, motivating multiple observations before we hit the road once again.
12 March 2018
Sol 1991-1992: Taking our time for science
After a successful weekend plan, the Curiosity team decided that for the sol 1991-1992 plan, we would trade a longer-distance drive in favor of some ‘touch and go’ contact science.
