Curiosity's latest workspace imaged on mission sol 4480 (March 14, 2025 ) after a drive of 24 meters (~79 ft). This composite image is assembled from 15 overlapping L-MastCam sub-frame images. The workspace covers an area about 2 meters (~6.5 feet) across, and shows details within the workspace accessible to the instruments and tools on the rover's 2 meter-long robotic arm. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Curiosity Rover - Sol 4497: Yet More interesting rock textures in this Bayer reconstructed R-MastCam. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Remember that rock, made up of tiny spherules, which #Perseverance saw the other sol? Here is one somewhat similar, now seen by #Curiosity:

Post:
𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝟰𝟰𝟳𝟵-𝟰𝟰𝟴𝟬: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗟𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘆, 𝗕𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘆 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸?

"The two rocks right in front of us are different from anything that we have looked at before on the mission, so we are eager to know what they are."

https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4479-4480-what-is-that-lumpy-bumpy-rock/

A rock with a dome-like structure, captured 12 hours ago by Curiosity in the canyon between Texoli Butte and Gould Mesa. It is mentioned in the latest mission update, by Sharon Wilson Purdy: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4477-4478-bumping-back-to-business/

#Mars Mar. 14, 2025 (Sol 4480)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity Rover mission update for Sols 4477-4478

Bumping Back to Business:

#Mars #Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarrocks #Blog

https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4477-4478-bumping-back-to-business/

Substituted image - Sol 4477 MAHLI mosaic. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

With #LPSC2025 about to start, it's time to share what I've been working on during the last months.
This is a new high resolution 3D model of the Mont Mercou outcrop, that I made during my recent internship at LPG Nantes.

Captured by the Mars rover Curiosity, somewhere in the canyon between Texoli Butte and Gould Mesa

#Mars Mar. 5, 2025 (Sol 4471)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Curiosity's latest workspace imaged on mission sol 4471 (March 5, 2025 ) after a drive of 19.6 meters (64.4 ft). This composite image is roughly assembled from 15 overlapping L-MastCam subframe images, the images were Bayer reconstructed prior to assembly.
Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Curiosity Rover's latest workspace after a drive to the south of ~37 meters (120 ft) during Sol 4469. By the end the drive it had climbed nearly 4 meters (13 ft). The detailed data from the drive are attached as is a screenshot from the mission traverse map (with scale) and a post-drive L-NavCam image featuring the robotic arm workspace.

Stereo3D view captured 9 hours ago by Curiosity on her traverse past Texoli Butte and Gould Mesa.

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye.

#Mars Sol 4469 - Mar. 3, 2025
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity rover updates: three new posts by Lucy Thompson, Lauren Edgar and Susanne Schwenzer

Salty Salton Sea? https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4461-4463-salty-salton-sea/
Making Good Progress https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4464-4465-making-good-progress/
Heading Into the Small Canyon https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4466-4468-heading-into-the-small-canyon/

Are you curious how I invented my micro-macro-amplifyer and why I like Dr Who? How I learned from a BBC colleague that a bed is important for work? Do you want to imagine a grey haired woman watching childrens' TV and having a culture clash thanks to Audacity? How I came to podcasting (part 1) https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/e7f309ce-2f1e-46f0-ba80-e8e86b6a8430

Meanwhile on Mars - We have the left side mast camera images of the sol 4456 robotic arm workspace. Attached is a mosaic of the 15 overlapping frames, the drive data and a screen capture of the mission map. The drive data is imported from JPLs waypoints URL, using LibreOffice Calc.

#Mars #Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarrocks #Data #map #LibreOffice

Credits: NASA.JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

“Pyramid Lake”, a Martian pyramid-shaped rock captured by the Curiosity rover.

More insights in this post by Abigail Fraeman, Planetary Geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4454-4457-getting-ready-to-fill-the-long-weekend-with-science/

#Mars Feb. 15, 2025 (Sol 4454)
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Another butte-iful day in Gale Crater!

#Mars Feb. 14, 2025 (Sol 4453)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Rover: #Curiosity

Earth date: 2015-07-01

Sol: 1031

Camera: Mast Camera

Meanwhile on Mars - Curiosity rover continues its traverse towards the west-southwest with another drive of ~35 meters. Attached is a post-drive left side navigation camera image of its new workspace, the drive data and a screen capture of the mission map (with scalebar), the sol 4452 traverse is highlighted by a yellow path.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA

Beautiful Martian vistas, captured two days ago by Curiosity

#Mars Feb. 8, 2025 (Sol 4447)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Two years ago, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this feathery iridescent cloud after sunset. The color is created by diffraction effects when sunlight is scattered by small CO2 particles in the cloud.

Full panorama: https://flic.kr/p/2qJvszB

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Simeon Schmauß

Three recent Curiosity rover mission updates:

Sols 4434-4436: Last Call for Clouds https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4434-4436-last-call-for-clouds/

Sols 4437-4438: Coordinating our Dance Moves https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4437-4438-coordinating-our-dance-moves/

Sols 4439-4440: A Lunar New Year on Mars https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4439-4440-a-lunar-new-year-on-mars/