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Emily Lakdawalla • December 11, 2018
Just after a failed drill attempt at Inverness, Curiosity suffered a serious computer problem. The mission has now recovered by switching computers, and has successfully drilled at Highfield. One last drill site in "red Jura" rocks is planned before leaving Vera Rubin ridge behind.
Emily Lakdawalla • September 06, 2018
Heedless of the (now-dissipating) dust storm, Curiosity has achieved its first successful drill into rocks that form the Vera Rubin ridge, and is hopefully on the way to a second. It took three attempts for Curiosity to find a soft enough spot, with Voyageurs and Ailsa Craig being too tough, but Stoer proved obligingly soft on sol 2136.
Emily Lakdawalla • July 30, 2018 • 4
What does it mean that the Mars rover Curiosity found organics in Martian rocks? Emily Lakdawalla translates the science.
Linda Martel • July 10, 2018 • 1
Something new and wonderful appeared in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database—an entire listing of meteorites found on Mars by robotic rovers and their science teams from the years 2005–2017.
Emily Lakdawalla • June 29, 2018 • 1
Hooray! Curiosity has triumphantly returned to drilling with a successful drill and delivery to its lab instruments at a site named Duluth. It's now studying the dust storm as it drives to new drill sites on Vera Rubin ridge.
Emily Lakdawalla • May 14, 2018 • 4
Readers, colleagues, friends: it's finally happened. My first book is finally out in the world. Here's an excerpt that explains the design and operation of Curiosity's MMRTG, (it also applies to the future Mars 2020 rover power supply).
Emily Lakdawalla • April 17, 2018
The Curiosity team has completed its initial survey of the top of Vera Rubin Ridge, and is ready to make another attempt at drilling after the rock at Lake Orcadie proved to be too hard.
Jatan Mehta • April 17, 2018 • 2
Take a look at how electronics of spacecraft are built to survive the harshness of space environments.
Raymond Francis and Tara Estlin • March 13, 2018
Since 2016, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has had the ability to choose its own science targets using an onboard intelligent targeting system called AEGIS.
Emily Lakdawalla • February 21, 2018 • 2
After a hiatus of nearly 500 sols, Curiosity is ready to attempt drilling into a Mars rock again.
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