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Old 23-08-2012, 11:30 AM
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Awesome...that seems to be a common word for this mission

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Old 23-08-2012, 11:31 AM
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Wohoo, the rover is roving!!

And what a great descent video that was, thanks for the link Mike.
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Old 23-08-2012, 11:35 AM
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Post My other car is a Mars rover

A human interest story appears in the Sydney Morning Herald this afternoon
by motoring writer, Barry Park, who writes about Matt Heverly, an engineer
on the JPL team responsible for "driving" the Curiosity rover.

http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/d...824-24qqm.html
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Zooming in on the base of Mt Sharp

Stunning portion of a 100mm MastCam image showing the strata in the base of Mount Sharp -
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6...-full_full.jpg

Full uncropped image here -
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16104.jpg

Further details here including annotated image showing distance scale.
For example, the highest point on the mountain that can be seen is some 16.2km away -
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16104
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Curiosity catches partial eclipse by Phobos

Curiosity catches partial eclipse by Phobos as it grazed the edge of the Sun.

Story, pictures -
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci...921-26amj.html
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Post Curiosity site once had fast moving water

NASA announce that the landing site of the Mars rover Curiosity was once
covered with fast-moving and possibly waist-high water that could have
possibly supported life.

Washington Post story here -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...y.html?hpid=z2
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Curoisity finds what is probably piece of its own plastic

JPL reports -

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Object Likely Benign Plastic from Curiosity Rover
Wed, 10 Oct 2012 05:49:45 AM EDT

Curiosity's main activity in the 62nd sol of the mission (Oct. 8, 2012) was to image a small, bright object on the ground using the Remote Micro-Imager of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument.

The rover team's assessment is that the bright object is something from the rover, not Martian material. It appears to be a shred of plastic material, likely benign, but it has not been definitively identified.

To proceed cautiously, the team is continuing the investigation for another day before deciding whether to resume processing of the sample in the scoop. Plans include imaging of surroundings with the Mastcam.

A sample of sand and dust scooped up on Sol 61 remains in the scoop. Plans to transfer it from the scoop into other chambers of the sample-processing device were postponed as a precaution during planning for Sol 62 after the small, bright object was detected in an image from the Mast Camera (Mastcam).

A Sol 62 raw image from ChemCam, at http://1.usa.gov/R1fZHt, shows the object in question just to left of center of the image.

Sol 62, in Mars local mean solar time at Gale Crater, will end at 12:23 a.m. Oct. 9, PDT (3:23 a.m., EDT).
Bright object is in the foreground, on the ground, near the bottom of this Mastcam image -
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6...25-43_full.jpg

Back on 7 October, Curiosity took its first scoop of Martian soil.
Video of the soil being vibrated in the scoop here -
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/video...a_id=153559401
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Bright object is in the foreground, on the ground, near the bottom of this Mastcam image -
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6...25-43_full.jpg

Back on 7 October, Curiosity took its first scoop of Martian soil.
Video of the soil being vibrated in the scoop here -
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/video...a_id=153559401

Its all ok its just a piece of wire covering

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-316

"Over the past two sols, with rover arm activities on hold, the team has assessed the object as likely to be some type of plastic wrapper material, such as a tube used around a wire, possibly having fallen onto the rover from the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft's descent stage during the landing in August. "
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Is that rubbish being left on Mars . Hope no Matian marine life gets caught up in it tut tut tut...if we see a cigarette butt we should get worried...

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Nasa are now interplanetary litter bugs : P
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