#marscuriosity — Public Fediverse posts
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"Move your phone around to view Mars!" Well, I just knocked mine off the desk trying. 📱 But what a view! Curiosity rover's new 360° panorama reveals mysterious yellow crystals that even scientists can't explain. Finally, Mars has its own "shiny thing" collection like us cats! 🪨✨ #MarsCuriosity #SpaceExploration
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Congratulations to Shaunna Morrison (Earth & Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Science), the recipient of the 2023 Mineralogical Society of America award. The award was presented at the #GSAConnects meeting.
She studies crystal chemical behavior and bonding systematics in minerals, is part of the #MarsCuriosity science team and is a pioneer in #MineralInformatics.
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On sol 3966 (yestersol), the Curiosity Rover's dust removal tool (DRT) rotated a small plate of rock. This, according to @doug_ellison, makes the rover planners the first ever martian DJs 😆
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Curiosity Rover MAHLI calibration target and the rover's lucky penny, Sol 3962.
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Distant landscape “postcard” view from the Mars Curiosity Rover taken over the weekend on Sol 3950.
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Your periodic reminder that rocks on Mars can be weird. This image was taken by the Curiosity Rover's MastCam on Sol 3946.
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Nice postcard view looking north towards the Gale Crater rim, taken post-drive a few hours ago tosol (Sol 3864).
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Sand streaks, @MarsCuriosity Sol 3861.
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#MarsCuriosity rover’s ‘postcard’ of #MarkerBandValley.
The #Curiosity team released a beautiful new image of #Martian morning and afternoon. An artistic interpretation of the landscape unveils the enigmatic beauty of #Mars, capturing the essence of a world beyond our reach.
More information: https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9415/nasas-curiosity-captures-martian-morning-afternoon-in-new-postcard/
#SpaceMastodon #Space #AstronomyMastodon #Astrodon #Astronomy #ScienceMastodon #Science #Rovers
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Mars Curiosity Rover Sol 3851 workspace and wheel scuff imaging.
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Clean break. Mars Curiosity Rover, Sol 3849
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Last week on sol 3837, the Curiosity team used the LEDs on the MAHLI camera for the first time in a long time to do a nighttime observation. Because of the dust in Mars’ atmosphere, daytime photos have a more redder appearance than they would under a white light. Well, it just so happens that MAHLI has some white light LEDs, which when used at night give you a great chance to see things in their true color as you’d see them if you were holding them yourself now.
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ChemCam RMI mosaic towards a really weird rock. Mars Curiosity Rover, Sol 3841.
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ChemCam RMI of a distant cliff taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover on sol 3842.
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Sol 3834 MAHLI view of the new Ubajara drill hole. The Curiosity rover is just wrapping up the Ubajara (uba-JAR-ah) drill campaign having successfully delivered samples to the SAM and ChemIn instruments. It’s mostly been slow for me on the engineering cameras, but I was able to work with the env scientists to look for dust devils (spoiler: there were none).
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Sol 3830 2x1 ChemCam view of a rock fracture on the ground over on the right side of the Mars Curiosity Rover.
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Thin morning clouds over Gale Crater on Mars, spotted yestersol (Sol 3817) by the Mars Curiosity Rover
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Sol 3810 Mars Curiosity Rover workspace. The rover is presently parked here until it drives away a little later tosol following some contact science.
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Cross/Wall-eye stereogram of a rock that looks like a book frozen mid-page-turn. Taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover today on sol 3800.
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View of erosion resistant "Shark's Teeth" nodules taken with the Mars Curiosity Rover's MastCam.
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MAHLI mosaic processed from images taken on Sol 3798 a few hours ago by the Mars Curiosity Rover.
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Crosseye stereogram using a pair of Sol 3769 MAHLI images from the Mars Curiosity Rover.
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Sol 3762 mosaic of Tapo Caparo drill site and turret shadow from the Mars Curiosity Rover.
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A new drill hole from the Mars Curiosity Rover, done over the weekend. While drilling, a few chunks fractured off and now I really want to flip that large one off and have a look underneath.
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Cross-eye stereogram assembled using images taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover's MAHLI camera on Sol 3730
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Sols 3724/3725 @MarsCuriosity MastCam and MAHLI examination of the possible iron meteorite "Cacao".
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Seems that Curiosity rover over in Gale, did not want to be outdone.
Waiting for more frames.
The final MastCam mosaic could be really special. 😀
Edit - Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
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Sol 3721 checkout of the "Encanto" drill target taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover's MAHLI camera.
https://flic.kr/p/2odfBh4
https://flic.kr/p/2odgBbFNASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
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A beautiful view along the marker band taken with the Mars Curiosity Rover's NavCams.
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