Curiosity Blog, Sols 5056-5062: Charging Back Up!
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By Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer, NASA-JPL Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 30, 2026 Today’s plan covered 3 sols, 5060, 5061, and 5062, as we take a few recharging sols before getting back to our normal drilling activities. As you may know...
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- On: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 01:07 +0000
Curiosity Blog, Sols 5050-5055: It’s Nazca, Our 49th Drill Hole
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Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 23, 2026 As regular readers of this blog will know, we returned to the area where we found disc shaped inclusions in the rocks, ...
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- On: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 01:05 +0000
Rubies on Mars?
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Written by Roger C. Wiens, SuperCam Principal Investigator for NASA’s Perseverance rover at Purdue University Nov. 4, 2026 Exploration on Mars turns up the unexpected. Perseverance is equipped with a fantastic set of instruments for studying the rock rec...
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- On: Mon, 09 Nov 2026 22:27 +0000
Newest Sample, Oldest Rock?
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Written by Tasha Coelho, Mastcam-Z Student Collaborator at Arizona State University Nov. 1, 2026 Perseverance’s most recent abrasion “Pumbe” bears a striking resemblance to an earlier abrasion, “Badger Peak.” That’s no coincidence. As previousl...
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- On: Mon, 09 Nov 2026 22:25 +0000
Using Vibrations and AI, Future Robotic Missions Could Handle Buried Rocks Autonomously
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Mechanical engineering assistant professor Erik Komendera developed a method that combines vibrations and AI to determine how deeply a rock is buried, helping robots clear terrain more efficiently....
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:44 +0000
Mars' Molten Heart is Long Gone, but Some Magma Chambers May Persist
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Mars may be more volcanically active than we thought, according to new research. The Trace Gas Orbiter detected HCl, a chemical associated with magma, at a time of year that's difficult except by volcanic origins. The new research also identified new surfa...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:25 +0000