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  • 9th August 2013 Sol 359

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 9, 2013 Here is a map showing close to our current location. We saw a pebble bed similar to what we found near Bradbury Landing on our first drive down Peace Vallis towards Yellowknife Bay.

  • 17th September 2013 Sol 397

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 17, 2013 We are now doing contact science at the Darwin outcrop.  The rounded clasts in the NavCam image show that it is conglomerate.

  • 23rd September 2013 Sol 402

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 23, 2013 This image shows the arm deployed over the conglomerate and veins as we gather more MAHLI data.  The shadow from the arm shows how we are operating at near noon, local time at Gale Crater.

  • 2nd October 2013 Sol 411

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 2, 2013 Mars Science Laboratory is having a team meeting at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California.

  • 6th November 2013 Sol 445

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 6, 2013 Curiosity is having a software upgrade this week, so no science operations. We are still at Cooperstown and thinking about the close up images of the outcrop layers.

  • 1st May 2014 Sol 618

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 1, 2014 Here is a MastCam image of drilling in progress. This is the first ‘minidrill’ hole at Windjana.  You can see that Red Mars is only a very thin layer on the planet.

  • 5th August 2014 Sol 710

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 5, 2014 We are moving into a new sort of terrain as we enter Hidden Valley.  On this HiRISE image and the inset MAHLI image you can see the sand ripples that we are traversing.

  • 15th August 2014 Sol 720

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 15, 2014 We have retraced our tracks in Hidden Valley, going back to a site called Bonanza_King.

  • 11th September 2014 Sol 746

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 11, 2014 We have now reached the first foothills in the Mt. Sharp part of the mission.  This area is called the Pahrump Hills.

  • 14th January 2014 Sol 868

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on January 14, 2015 We have started the drilling activities at Pahrump (Mojahave outcrop).  This MAHLI image shows that the initial minidrill attempt turned up some unweathered fine grained sediment.

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