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21 January 2019
Sol 2298: Commencement of the Clay-Bearing Unit Campaign
Curiosity has moved for the first time since December 13, 2018. More importantly, Curiosity is moving to a new geological unit that we have so far called the ‘Clay-Bearing Unit’ (CBU).
18 January 2019
Sols 2295-2297: Just can’t wait to get on the road again
Sometimes the best laid plans of rovers go astray. After wrapping up at the Rock Hall drill site yesterday, the plan was for Curiosity to start driving towards the clay-bearing unit (our first drive in about a month)…
17 January 2019
Sols 2293-2294: On the road again
It has been a productive stay at the ‘Rock Hall’ drill site.
16 January 2019
Sol 2292: Dust to Dust
Gale Crater has become a lot dustier in recent sols (days) due to a regional dust storm in the southern hemisphere that was spotted by the Mars Climate Sounder team, so we added several extra environmental observations…
14 January 2019
Sol 2291: Selfie time at Rock Hall: say cheese!
Today we planned a single sol of activities, Sol 2291. As we begin to wrap up our activities at the Rock Hall drill site, Sol 2291 is chock full of science observations.
11 January 2019
Sol 2288-2290: Drilling activity completed, almost.
We will soon be leaving the Rock Hall area, thus this one last look at the drill site from a hazard camera perspective. Seeing those holes always is special, even for #19!
10 January 2019
Sols 2286-2287: Starting the wrap-up at Rock Hall
Curiosity’s onboard instruments SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) and CheMin (Chemistry and Mineralogy) have come to the end of their investigation of the Rock Hall target, likely to be our last drill location on the Vera Rubin Ridge…
8 January 2019
Sols 2284-2285: A spectra-cular Monday on Mars
A Front Hazcam image taken on Sol 2282 shows part of the landscape around the Curiosity rover, including some of the rocks that will be analyzed further with ChemCam.
7 January 2019
Sols 2281-2283: It’s a wonderful day for SAM!
Today we are continuing Curiosity’s drill campaign at our red Jura target ‘Rock Hall.’
3 January 2019
Sols 2279-2280: Happy 2019, Earthlings!
The holiday planning completed successfully and included 10 sols of five-hour-long morning meteorological observations…
