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22 January 2019
Sol 2299: Melrose Place
Curiosity is continuing the first phase of its journey to the ‘clay-bearing unit,’ the low elevation portion in the middle distance of this Navcam image with a series of ‘touch-and-go’ driving sols.
14 February 2018
Sol 1965: Torrid(on) pace
For the last several months, the science, engineering and operations teams have only met three days a week to plan activities for Curiosity in order to give the engineers more time to focus on bringing the drill back online. This week, we returned to planning five days a week as we continue to traverse east across the ‘Vera Rubin Ridge’…
13 February 2018
Sol 1964: A Personal Touch
Like yesterday, today’s plan for Curiosity is a bit on the thin side, as the rover’s power allotment will be primarily dedicated to activities associated with the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) and its preparation for a planned power-hungry experiment in tomorrow’s plan.
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.
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.
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.
14 December 2017
Sol 1902-1903: Swinging by the sandbox
The majority of the time on the ‘Vera Rubin Ridge,’ Curiosity focuses on the rocks that make up the ridge, measuring their chemistry and imaging their structure to try and understand the origin of this prominent feature in Gale crater.
13 December 2017
Sol 1899-1901: SAM Evolved Gas Analysis
The plan for Curiosity this weekend is to finish up the investigation of Vera Rubin Ridge stop #9 and drive toward the next stop.
27 November 2017
Sol 1889-1890: Back to the Grind
While many of us spent the holiday weekend relaxing with friends and family, Curiosity took no rest on Mars and continued working hard today.
21 August 2017
Sol 1794: A Simple Plan
We had a nice long pre-drive science block which we stuffed with 2 ChemCam observations to measure the chemistry of targets ‘Boiler’ and ‘Biljim’ as well as a ChemCam image mosaic of the Vera Rubin Ridge
