Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity

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Panorama wykonana na szczycie Greengheugh Pediment (sol 2700) a zmontowana przez Jana Van Driela

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=45737

A tymczasem Curiosity wywiercił dziurkę w skale Edynburg 

The drill successfully dug into the “Edinburgh” target over the weekend, the first sandstone the drill has attempted to conquer since the engineering team hacked a new drilling method back in 2018.

As any good student would at the end of a test, it is now time for Curiosity to check her work! Curiosity will drop three small portions of rock powder from the drill onto various rover surfaces, and then Mastcam will image those portions. This is a good way to check the sample in the drill before it is delivered to CheMin and SAM.



https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/8633/sols-2713-2714-check-your-work/

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=45751

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Z okazji świąt Wielkanocnych dwie śliczne panoramki od Curiosity 

http://www.db-prods.net/marsroversimages/Curiosity/2020/Sol2700_Mastcam100_mb.jpg

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=45795

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Wychodzi na to, że Curiosity wkrótce zjedzie z Greenheugh Pedimant.

On the second sol, Sol 2732, Curiosity will wake up first thing in the morning to perform some additional atmospheric observations, including Mastcam tau and crater rim extinction images as well as a Navcam line-of-sight image and cloud-monitoring movies. After our observations we’ll take a series of MAHLI images of Curiosity’s wheels before getting back on the road to continue our drive down off the Greenheugh pediment. Following our drive, we’ll take our standard post-drive images.


Jednak na razie odjechał nieco od miejsca ostatniego wiercenia:

Following a drive away from our Edinburgh drill site on Wednesday, Curiosity has a brand-new parking spot for this weekend’s science activities. The drive put us right in front of a nice patch of sand ripples, visible smack dab in the middle of the Navcam image above. We’ll devote several of our weekend activities to investigating targets around this little patch of sand.

Gdzie wykonywane będą badania:

On the first sol of the weekend, Sol 2731, we have a hefty 2-hour science block during which Curiosity will perform a suite of ChemCam, Mastcam, and Navcam observations. We’ll use the ChemCam laser to probe targets “The Borders,” “Dryhope,” and “Chalifornia.” The Borders and Chalifornia are bedrock targets, and, as the name suggests, Dryhope is a soil target. We’ll use Mastcam to take documentation images of the ChemCam targets as well as an additional large mosaic to document the stratigraphy of the Greenheugh pediment as we continue our drive down the pediment. To finish out the science block, we’ll use Navcam and Mastcam to search for dust devils and monitor the atmosphere. In the afternoon and overnight, we’ll perform contact science (including the MAHLI and APXS instruments) on the “Auld Reekie” soil target.

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/8646/sols-2731-2732-a-sandy-soliday-weekend/

Kilka zdjęć z sol 2732:











https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cinstrument_sort+asc%2Csample_type_sort+asc%2C+date_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=msl&fbl=2721%2C2726%2C2731%2C2732&af=NAV_RIGHT_A%7CNAV_RIGHT_B%2CNAV_LEFT_A%7CNAV_LEFT_B%2CRHAZ_RIGHT_A%7CRHAZ_LEFT_A%7CRHAZ_RIGHT_B%7CRHAZ_LEFT_B%2CFHAZ_RIGHT_A%7CFHAZ_LEFT_A%7CFHAZ_RIGHT_B%7CFHAZ_LEFT_B%2C%2C%2C

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Zgodnie z zapowiedziami łazik Curiosity zjeżdża z delty do Clay Bearing Unit i to tą samą trasą, którą kiedyś wjeżdżał w górę  Po drodze napotyka na kamyczek wcześniej już widziany 

Today’s blog image features a Hazard Camera image from many sols ago, sol 2659 or 29th January this year in Earth measures. At the time, we were heading uphill, with the steepest climb still ahead of us. My blogging-colleague Catherine had the same block with so many features to explore in her blog that she entitled "Heading for the Bench!" Look back at it and marvel at all the different structures, veins and nodules included. Tosol we are on our way back downhill, and we passed by the same area. As the time was pressing on our way up, we are now taking full advantage of a second serving of this piece of bedrock.
Mars surface and part of the rover are visible in this image
This image was taken by Left Navigation Camera onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 2734. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

This was our Navcam view on sol 2734, the image was taken by the Navcam. You can compare it with the above image from a few weeks ago.


Finally, Curiosity is going on a long roll – driving all the way into the valley between the buttes to our next area of interest. Stay tuned to see the buttes from the bottom of the valley again after our exciting climb onto and decent from the high place!

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/8651/sols-2735-2736-take-two-rocking-and-rolling-downhill/

Zdjęcie z sol 2659



Zdjęcie z sol 2734 (15 kwietnia 2020)

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Śliczne zdjęcie mijanej przez Curiosity skały Lost Valley

https://scontent-frt3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s960x960/93842088_3529815887033535_7093019166562582528_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_sid=8024bb&_nc_ohc=pNJKsJ-HrnEAX8rX_Kh&_nc_ht=scontent-frt3-1.xx&_nc_tp=7&oh=929655d91c1420eeba55b8e099a67f0c&oe=5EC030A4

https://www.facebook.com/pg/marscuriosityimages/posts/

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Ostatnimi dniami Curiosity dotarł do skały Glasgow, którą właśnie ma nawiercić 

To me, it seems like Curiosity was sitting on top of the Greenheugh pediment getting ready to drill “Edinburgh” just yesterday, and yet we’re already preparing to drill another rock in this weekend’s plan, a target we’ve named “Glasgow.” Combined with “Hutton,” these three drilled samples will give us a wonderful snapshot of the range of compositions of the three major geologic units we’ve explored in this region.

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/8664/sols-2751-2753-glas-going-to-drill/

Skała Glasgow



https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/8661/sols-2749-2750-preparing-to-drill-glasgow/

Kilka fotek z sol 2753 (4-5 maja 2020)









https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/02753/opgs/edr/ncam/NRB_641885515EDR_S0792008NCAM00595M_.JPG

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Ładna panoramka mes z sol 2751 sporządzona przez Jana van Driel 

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=45846

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A ten biały nalot na łaziku na zdjęciu powyżej to szron czy pył?

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Pył jest ciemny i zalega we wszystkich zakamarkach. Biała powierzchnia panelu jest naturalna - to nie szron.

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Łazik Curiosity właśnie wykonał kolejną dziurkę na Marsie, tym razem w skale Glasgow:



https://mars.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/02755/opgs/edr/fcam/FRB_642062704EDR_F0792008FHAZ00341M_.JPG



https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/02754/mcam/2754MR0144390011201418E01_DXXX.jpg

 

I jeszcze kilka ciekawych fotek z sol 2755

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Śliczna panorama z sol 2750. Moim zdaniem jedna z najładniejszych wykonanych przez Curiosity:

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=45849

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Jedna z ładniejszych. Najładniejsze dopiero przed nami. 

Teraz powstaje dylemat, jaką trasą pokierują Curiosity, żeby bez problemów dotarł w okolice wąwozu i zaczął wspinaczkę na górę Mount Sharp?

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Dylematu myślę, że nie ma. Pojedzie tak jak wcześniej planowano. Gdzieś wcześniej powinna być mapka planowanej trasy. Oby tylko w przyszłym roku fiskalnym budżet misji nie został okrojony, tak, że działalność łazika byłaby ograniczona o 50% 

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Darmowy artykuł o wynikach badań Vera Rubin/ Hematite Ridge przez Curiosity 
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2019JE006298

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Darmowy artykuł o wynikach badań Vera Rubin/ Hematite Ridge przez Curiosity 
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2019JE006298

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