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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.
4 October 2017
Sol 1836-1837: Frankenplan
Today we worked very hard to generate what we affectionately dubbed a ‘Frankenplan’…
3 October 2017
Sol 1835: Limpopo, Ecca, and Lucknow
Curiosity’s 13.8 meter drive yestersol brought the rover a few meters higher on Vera Rubin Ridge to a bit of a plateau.
2 October 2017
Sol 1834: Partial Success: Ogunquit Beach Sample Delivered to CheMin
Over the weekend Curiosity worked on a bold plan to drop off a sample in the inlet of the CheMin instrument.
