Curiosity Mars Rover: Closing in on Outcrop

Curiosity Entrance Hazcam Left B picture taken on Sol 2440, June 18, 2019.
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2440 science duties.

“The outcrop in entrance of us is spectacular,” stories Daybreak Sumner, a planetary geologist on the College of California Davis; Davis, California.

Curiosity Rear Hazcam Left B picture acquired on Sol 2440, June 18, 2019.
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Curiosity’s science group has deliberate common climate observations, a survey of the sky at twilight, a film on the lookout for mud devils and a second one wanting up on the clouds.

Additionally deliberate, Sumner provides, is a 360° Mastcam picture to seize the regional outcrops in addition to three Chemistry and Digicam (ChemCam) Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Elevated Science (AEGIS) analyses, the place the instrument routinely selects targets inside a area outlined by the group.

Curiosity Mastcam Left picture acquired on Sol 2439, June 17, 2019.
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Curiosity Navcam Left B picture taken on Sol 2439, June 17, 2019.
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Curiosity Navcam Left B picture taken on Sol 2439, June 17, 2019.
Credit score: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity Navcam Left B picture taken on Sol 2439, June 17, 2019.
Credit score: NASA/JPL-Caltech