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Sols 4297-4299: This Way to Tungsten Hills - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 6, 2024 Contact science in our immediate workspace includes a joint effort by MAHLI and APXS to characterize a gray rock with two targets named “Big Baldy” and “Big Bird Lake.science.nasa.gov
Persevering Through the Storm - NASA Science
It's dust-storm season on Mars! Over the past couple of weeks, as we ascended the Jezero Crater rim, our science team has monitored increasing dust in the atmosphere — typically highest around this time of the Martian year.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4295-4296: A Martian Moon and Planet Earth - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024 Today’s two-sol plan contains the usual science blocks filled with contact science and remote science to observe and assess the geology surrounding us.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4291-4293: Fairview Dome, the Sequel - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 30, 2024 Our backwards drive to “McDonald Pass” got hung up on the steep slopes of “Fairview Dome,” but unlike a lot of movie sequels, our inadvertent return visit to Fairview Dome was at least as good as the origina…science.nasa.gov
Sol 4294: Return to McDonald Pass - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024 Curiosity has returned to “McDonald Pass,” a block within Gediz Vallis that we first spotted about a month ago (as seen in the above Front Hazcam image).science.nasa.gov
Behind the Scenes at the 2024 Mars 2020 Science Team Meeting - NASA Science
The Mars 2020 Science Team meets in Pasadena for 3 days of science synthesisscience.nasa.gov
Sols 4289-4290: From Discovery Pinnacle to Kings Canyon and Back Again - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 28 2024 We are back … almost, anyways. Today’s parking location is very close to where we parked on sol 4253, and in an area near one of the previous contact science targets “Discovery Pinnacle.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4287-4288: Back on the Road - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Monday, Aug. 26, 2024 Today’s planning day was a good example of how our team comes together to make quick decisions based on new information and science priorities.science.nasa.gov
Perseverance Kicks off the Crater Rim Campaign! - NASA Science
Perseverance is officially headed into a new phase of scientific investigation on the Jezero Crater rim!science.nasa.gov
Sols 4284–4286: Environmental Science Extravaganza - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 23, 2024 One of the many challenges of operating a rover on another planet is that we don’t always know where we’re going to be located before planning starts each day.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4282-4283: Bumping Away from Kings Canyon - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024 Having stayed in place for quite a few sols during our Kings Canyon drill campaign, we’re looking forward to doing a bump (ie: a short drive) and accomplishing some science in a new region.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4280-4281: Last Call at Kings Canyon - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Monday, Aug. 19, 2024 Curiosity successfully completed the drill sequence at the Kings Canyon site within the Gediz Vallis channel.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4277-4279: Getting Ready To Say Goodbye to the King! - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 16, 2024 It’s time to move on from our “Kings Canyon” drill site, so today’s plan focused on our usual tidy up routine after a drill campaign.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4275-4276: A Familiar View - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024 The star of today’s plan is SAM’s GCMS, which continues our analysis of the “Kings Canyon” drill sample.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4273-4274: Prep Rally - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Monday, Aug. 12, 2024 The SAM EGA over the weekend was successful, and that means we’re well on our way to planning the GCMS (Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometry) on our “Kings Canyon” drill sample! GCMS is an energy-intensive ac…science.nasa.gov
Sols 4270-4272: Sample for SAM - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 9, 2024 The focus for this three-sol weekend plan is delivering a portion of the Kings Canyon drill sample to SAM for Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA), following on from a successful CheMin analysis.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4268-4269: Admiring Kings Canyon - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024 Curiosity is admiring our latest drill hole, “Kings Canyon.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4266-4267: Happy ‘Landiversary,’ Curiosity - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Monday, Aug. 5, 2024 After the usual morning routine of doing some engineering housekeeping, Curiosity continues to take some remote science observations.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4263-4265: A Royal Birthday Celebration at Kings Canyon - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 2, 2024 Prepare your party poppers, horns, and confetti! On Aug. 6 (EDT), after 4,265 Martian sols since Curiosity first landed in Gale Crater, the rover will be turning 12 years old.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4261-4262: Drill Sol 1…Take 2 - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 31, 2024 As Cat mentioned on Monday, today’s plan is a second attempt at our Drill Sol 1 activities.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4259-4260: Kings Canyon Go Again! - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Monday, July 29, 2024 Our weekend drill preload test on the target “Kings Canyon” (shown in the accompanying MAHLI image) didn’t give us the full range of data we need to move forward with the full drilling process.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4255-4256: Just Passing Through - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Happy Wednesday, terrestrials! We wrapped up our Mammoth Lakes drill campaign only three weeks ago and are already looking for our next drill site.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4257-4258: A Little Nudge on Kings Canyon - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Friday, July 26, 2024 Today’s 2-sol weekend plan is our first taste of a new location for a potential sampling campaign. We call today’s plan type: Drill Sol 1 – triage contact science.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4253-4254: Pit Stop for Contact Science - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Monday, July 22, 2024 Last week we wrapped up activities at Fairview Dome and started heading south towards our next potential drill location in the Upper Gediz Vallis ridge campaign.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4250-4252: So Many Rocks, So Little Time - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Friday, July 19, 2024 As usual with our weekend plans, we are packing a lot of science into today’s three-sol plan. I had the fun of planning a complex and large set of arm activities as the Arm Rover Planner today.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4248-4249: Lunch at Fairview Dome - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 We started our day at an outcrop called “Fairview Dome,” a light-colored rock so big that it can easily be seen from orbit! We have had our eye on Fairview Dome since Curiosity descended into the Gediz Va…science.nasa.gov
Sols 4246-4247: Next Stop: Fairview Dome - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Monday, July 15, 2024 Summer is in full swing in the northern hemisphere here on Earth. Warmer temperatures and fair weather make for prime opportunities for road trips and enjoying the best of the outdoors.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4243-4245: Exploring Stubblefield Canyon - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Friday, July 12, 2024 Curiosity, now heading uphill from the Mammoth Lakes drill site, has focused on a very interesting exposure of conglomerate rocks, consisting of pebbles cemented together by a fine-grained matrix material.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4241–4242: We Can’t Go Around It…We’ve Got To Go Through It! - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 Curiosity is currently trekking across Gediz Vallis channel because, as my nephew’s favorite book says, if we can’t go around it… we’ve got to go through it! Recently we’ve been parked for a while on the …science.nasa.gov
Sols 4239-4240: 'Vuggin’ Out' - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Monday, July 8, 2024 And just like we planned, Curiosity successfully drove about 11 meters (about 36 feet) after a 27-sol drill campaign at Mammoth Lakes! Not so fast, though, these rocks are just too interesting to leave behind…science.nasa.gov
Sols 4236-4238: One More Time… for Contact Science at Mammoth Lakes - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Friday, July 5, 2024 Curiosity will drive away from the Mammoth Lakes drill location on the second sol of this three-sol weekend plan, but before she does, the team will take the opportunity for one last chance at contact science…science.nasa.gov
Sols 4234-4235: And That’s (Nearly) a Wrap on Mammoth Lakes! - NASA Science
Earth Planning Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 We received the data from our SAM analysis of the Mammoth Lakes sample late Monday afternoon.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4232-4233: Going For a Ride, Anyone? - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Monday, July 1, 2024 Have you ever wondered what it might look like to ride along with the rover? Probably not as much as we have here on the planning team, where we are looking at the images on a daily basis.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4229-4231: More Analyses of the Mammoth Lakes 2 Sample! - NASA Science
Earth Planning Date: Friday, June 28, 2024 After reviewing results from the Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA) experiment that were downlinked yesterday afternoon (Sols 4226-4228: A Powerful Balancing Act), the SAM team decided they’d like to go ahead with a…science.nasa.gov
Sols 4226-4228: A Powerful Balancing Act - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 As documented in a previous blog last week, we continue to juggle power constraints as we focus on analyzing our newest drilled sample on Mars: “Mammoth Lakes 2.science.nasa.gov
Interesting Rock Textures Galore at Bright Angel - NASA Science
Upon the rover’s arrival at Bright Angel, it was so exciting to see all the interesting features in the rocks of this interval! In particular, these rocks contain an abundance of veins and nodules.science.nasa.gov
Sol 4225: Sliding Down Horsetail Falls - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Monday, June 24, 2024 This will be an important week for chemistry on our latest drill sample “Mammoth Lakes 2.science.nasa.gov
Sols 4222-4224: A Particularly Prickly Power Puzzle - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Friday, June 21, 2024 All our patient waiting has been rewarded, as we were greeted with the news that our drill attempt of “Mammoth Lakes 2” was successful! You can see the drill hole in the image above, as well as the first pla…science.nasa.gov
A Bright New Abrasion - NASA Science
Last week, Perseverance arrived at the long-awaited site of Bright Angel, named for being a light-toned rock that stands out in orbital data.science.nasa.gov