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Sols 2829-2830: Come to my arms my Breamish boy!

Sols 2829-2830: Come to my arms my Breamish boy!

Our weekend observations of the target Breamish showed some interesting chemistry results (which always make our scientists exclaim “O frabjous day! C...

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COVID-19 Gives Lemons: Flagstaff Festival of Science Makes Lemonade

COVID-19 Gives Lemons: Flagstaff Festival of Science Makes Lemonade

Flagstaff residents don’t need to wonder if the Annual Festival of Science will convene this year since organizers are one stride ahead and have been...

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Publication Reveals New Insights into Mysterious Slope Streaks on Mars

Publication Reveals New Insights into Mysterious Slope Streaks on Mars

You won’t want to miss out on Geomorphological evidence for a dry dust avalanche origin of slope streaks on Mars!

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Bound to Make an Impact: Astro Employee Recognized for Photo Submission

Bound to Make an Impact: Astro Employee Recognized for Photo Submission

Marc Hunter of the Astrogeology Science Center has been recognized for a photo of a Valles Marineras Tharsis color topographic map chosen to be...

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Sols 2795-2796: Approaching Bloodstone Hill

Sols 2795-2796: Approaching Bloodstone Hill

A few months ago, Curiosity drove up on top of the Greenheugh pediment (see this blog post: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/8624/sols-2696...

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Sols 2792-2794: Contact science on the way to “Bloodstone Hill”

Sols 2792-2794: Contact science on the way to “Bloodstone Hill”

Curiosity is making good progress on the way to “Bloodstone Hill,” an interesting bright outcrop visible on the left side of the above Navcam image....

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A new song inspires memory of the man buried on the Moon

A new song inspires memory of the man buried on the Moon

Millions of people are listening to a song called “Shoemaker” by a Finnish music group called 'Nightwish', written as a tribute to Dr. Eugene...

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Sol 2781-2782: Sulfates or Bust

Sol 2781-2782: Sulfates or Bust

Today’s plan marks the start of our more than 1.5 km traverse to the next major unit of Mt. Sharp, the “sulfate-bearing” unit. During this traverse...

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May’s Must-Read Journal Article: An ancient lake on Mars?

May’s Must-Read Journal Article: An ancient lake on Mars?

As the Curiosity rover explores the Martian climate and geology of  Mars,  scientists are hoping to find definitive evidence that life once existed...

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Sol 2763-2764: SAM is Getting Ready

Sol 2763-2764: SAM is Getting Ready

There was a hiccup with SAM in Monday’s plan preventing it from running the “preconditioning” steps to get ready for sample analysis, but after...

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‘Cereously’: An Ice Shell of Ceres keeps fiery debates burning

‘Cereously’: An Ice Shell of Ceres keeps fiery debates burning

In March 2015, researchers were excited as they waited for details about the dwarf planet Ceres from NASA’s Dawn mission. Further knowledge of the...

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Astrogeology Field Notes: March

Astrogeology Field Notes: March

Astrogeology Field Notes for March.  “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” -Winston Churchill

 
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