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15 January 2018
Sols 1934-1936: Science at Location "e" of the Vera Rubin Ridge Campaign
What’s in a name? From its rather innocuous sounding informal site name, you might not guess that location ‘e’ would generate such excitement in the science team.
10 January 2018
Sol 1931-1933: Image Overload!
During the first day of this plan, Curiosity will focus on acquiring an incredible amount of high-resolution Mast Camera color images of the area immediately in front of the rover, the ‘mid-range’ region a few meters in front of the rover, and the entirety of Mt. Sharp.
8 January 2018
Sol 1929-30: Aiming for pay dirt
For the last several weeks, Curiosity has been hopping between areas of blue-ish toned rocks on the Vera Rubin Ridge and the results from these locations continue to become more compelling.
7 January 2018
Sols 1927-1928: Layers of fun!
Today’s image is a color version of part of the workspace image from the Sol 1925-1926 blog, which shows in greater detail the numerous layers and color variations that kept us at this spot for another round of science observations.
4 January 2018
Sols 1925-1926: Off to the races
Curiosity’s hard work over the holiday break paid off, giving the science team a rich collection of new data to assess and a new workspace to explore.
3 January 2018
Sols 1913-1924: Curiosity’s Working Holiday
There’s no real rest for the rover. We planned sols 1921-1924 on December 22 and 29.
20 December 2017
Sols 1911-1912: Filling Up on Pre-Holiday Data Treats
This morning Curiosity found herself back on familiar ground, near the targets ‘Lismore’ and ‘Leadhills’ that we imaged back on sol 1905.
18 December 2017
Sols 1909-1910: Driving "home" for the holidays
Today’s planning session kicked off with an important decision about where to drive Curiosity and how that will set us up for exciting science over the holidays.
17 December 2017
Sols 1906-1908: Quick Geologic Transitions!
Only two days ago, Curiosity was exploring a region of the Vera Rubin Ridge that appears more ‘blue’ than its surroundings, and consists of patches of sand and clean bedrock.
16 December 2017
1904-1905: Curiosity’s Arm Workout
We had some nice data (from Curiosity), including a gorgeous image of a finely-layered rock named ‘Trotternish.’
