Another good day on Mars: MSL’s remote sensing mast was successfullydeployed, and a Navcam panorama acquired. Not all of the images have beensent to Earth yet, but those that have…
I forgot to mention previously that, unlike at other NASA Centers, JPL employees work for Caltech, not NASA directly. So they were not as immediately affected by the government shutdown…
MSL landed on Mars one Earth year ago tonight, so there were cheers and applause during the SOWG meeting today. There are some nice products on the MSL web page…
Those of us supporting MSL tactical mission operations are living on “Mars time.” A day on Mars, or “sol” is about 40 minutes longer than a day on Earth, but…
Mars is at opposition today, so Mars will rise at sunset and be visible all night here on Earth. On Mars, Earth is not visible because it is too close…
MRO is back–we received over 400 Mbits of data through the orbiter yesterday! The amount of data relayed through MRO will decrease once the orbiter’s instruments are operating again (they…
Sol 569 Replace On Curiosity From USGS Scientist Ken Herkenhoff: Towards “The Kimberley” Science@NASA
I forgot to mention previously that, unlike at other NASA Centers, JPL employees work for Caltech, not NASA directly. So they were not as immediately affected by the government shutdown…
The MSL tactical operations team is fully re-engaged after the holiday break, planning a bunch of activities to keep the rover busy this weekend. Sol 503 starts with remote sensing…
Because MSL planning is “restricted” these days and we planned a drive on Sol 147, we could not accurately point at targets on Mars on Sol 148. So it was…