Sol 1128: Twenty Minutes to Mars
I got up before dawn again today, and was treated to a beautiful view of the crescent Moon, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter in the eastern sky. I hadn’t seen Mars…
I got up before dawn again today, and was treated to a beautiful view of the crescent Moon, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter in the eastern sky. I hadn’t seen Mars…
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…
Sol 2884: Ready… however Not Idling! Science@NASA
This was a week of transition for Curiosity’s environmental science team. The cloudy season on Mars has ended as we’ve seen a marked decrease in water ice cloud activity in…
With seventeen sampling holes and several test holes, you might imagine that Curiosity is creating a rather long and erratic golf course in Gale crater. After all, Alan Shepard shot…
It’s the windy season on Mars, and Curiosity’s activities this weekend include taking oodles of images at different times throughout the day to catch how the wind moves sand and…
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…
The main activitiesin today’s plan are ChemCam, Mastcam and MAHLI observations to characterize thedrill hole and tailings. First we’llacquire several ChemCam LIBS observations of the drill tailings to study theircomposition….
Sol 2877: Dusty Days on Mars Science@NASA