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April 4, 2024
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 04, 2024 - Earth planning day: Wednesday, April 3, 2024: Today we planned a Touch and Go plan. Our workspace had abundant large, stable blocks - not always a given! - which made for a relatively easy planning
April 3, 2024
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 02, 2024 - Earth planning date: Friday, March 29, 2024: Curiosity is approaching an intriguing pile of rocks called Hinman Col - a poorly sorted collection of clasts located along the margin of Gediz Vallis
March 23, 2024
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2024 - If the Curiosity rover had a song stuck in her head today, she might be humming Back to the uGVR, to the tune of The Beatles Back in the U.S.S.R, as she drives south along the eastern edge of th
February 27, 2024
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 26, 2024 - The planning team came in after the weekend to see another beautiful Martian drill hole on the target Mineral King! Mineral King is named after a silver mining district in Sequoia National Park, Cal
February 15, 2024
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 15, 2024 - One side effect of enjoying a very long mission is reaching fun number milestones. Usually that is Sol 3000 or some other nice round number, but today we are planning the mathematically fun sol 2^
February 13, 2024
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2024 - Earth planning date: Friday, February 9, 2024: We are found Curiosity at full energy and ready to go this morning. And go we did! We are at a very interesting location with lots of textures in the r
February 2, 2024
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 02, 2024 - Earth planning date: Wednesday, January 31, 2024: Curiosity continues her investigation of the light and dark banded sulfate terrain and started this two-sol planning day with several beautiful rock
January 26, 2024
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 26, 2024 - Earth planning date: Wednesday, January 24, 2024: We arrived at a workspace with bedrock delightfully dotted with resistant features whose granular appearance and gray color were intriguing enough t
January 21, 2024
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 21, 2024 - Earth planning date: Friday, January 19, 2024: This 3 sol weekend plan, like many of our recent plans (for example: here and here), focuses heavily on the fractures and cracks in this area. We are i
January 17, 2024
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 17, 2024 - Earth planning date: Friday, January 12, 2024: Cracking up - not Curiosity, but the rocks! It is all about the cracks and fractures in the workspace for this 4-sol plan. We have observed resistant,