MSL at Rocknest, First scoop samples - sols 57-101 |
MSL at Rocknest, First scoop samples - sols 57-101 |
 Oct 3 2012, 12:30 AM
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Curiosity has put more than 400 meters on the odometer and tosol (sol 56) she bumped up to a sand drift that we now know (via Twitter) is named Rocknest and will be the site of the first sample grab. In last week's press briefing, John Grotzinger warned that we will be here for "what seems like a very long time," 2-3 weeks. They will have to run several samples through the SA-SPaH (Sample Acquisition, Processing and Handling subsystem, pronounced "Saw-spa") and in particular CHIMRA (Collection and Handling for In situ Martian Rock Analysis, pronounced "chimera") in order to "clean" it of any remaining Earthly contamination with good Mars dirt before they deliver the first sample to SAM or Chemin. So this seems like a good place to start a new thread.
As usual, discuss stuff that happened through sol 56 in the previous thread. -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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elakdawalla MSL at Rocknest Oct 3 2012, 12:30 AM
ronald The latter one (see here). Someone in to add 64 an... Oct 25 2012, 06:56 PM
atomoid QUOTE (ronald @ Oct 25 2012, 10:56 AM) ..... Oct 25 2012, 08:56 PM Greenish I've been playing with ImageJ to make some fal... Oct 25 2012, 06:59 PM jvandriel Airbag,
That fuzy artifact is part of the Turret, ... Oct 25 2012, 08:15 PM Reckless TUESDAY, OCT. 30, 2012 at 2:30 p.m. EDT: NASA TO H... Oct 27 2012, 08:47 PM jmknapp Good to have a teleconference. It's been prett... Oct 27 2012, 11:11 PM Doc Sol 78 tray operations:
Oct 27 2012, 11:05 PM EdTruthan Questioning my sanity last few days... but I had t... Oct 28 2012, 10:23 PM iMPREPREX Ed - Just astounding. I've been trying to get ... Oct 28 2012, 10:49 PM ngunn I went for the 'Large'. That is stupendous... Oct 28 2012, 11:32 PM iMPREPREX QUOTE (ngunn @ Oct 28 2012, 07:32 PM) I w... Oct 29 2012, 12:36 AM EdTruthan Thanks guys. Am looking into Gigapan right now, ni... Oct 28 2012, 11:46 PM iMPREPREX Awesome, Ed. This is one heck of a panorama. No ma... Oct 28 2012, 11:49 PM Phil Stooke The little natural arch thing is on a rock called ... Oct 29 2012, 12:52 AM EdTruthan Got it up to Gigapan, so the full 84,213 x 3,383px... Oct 29 2012, 01:08 AM Free Mars Ed's pan makes Fark's Geek tab Oct 30 2012, 12:19 AM Astro0 Brilliant pan Ed.
This entire area is amazing. Cur... Oct 29 2012, 05:57 AM CosmicRocker QUOTE (Astro0 @ Oct 29 2012, 12:57 AM) ..... Oct 30 2012, 04:33 AM xflare WOW...amazing pan Ed.
I really didn't think t... Oct 29 2012, 07:18 AM Tycho Does anyone know the name of the instrument shown ... Oct 29 2012, 10:30 AM jamescanvin That is the REMS UV sensor
From http://msl-scico... Oct 29 2012, 11:37 AM Phil Stooke A stupendous pan from Edtruthan! Here I have ... Oct 29 2012, 01:46 PM ronald Really awesome Ed - thank you!
Some eye-cross... Oct 29 2012, 02:57 PM Doc Awesome panorama Ed! Oct 29 2012, 04:50 PM fredk Mahli stereo showing some very delicate-looking st... Oct 29 2012, 05:05 PM EdTruthan In this brightened crop of your anaglyph FredK, it... Oct 29 2012, 05:16 PM pmetschan QUOTE (EdTruthan @ Oct 29 2012, 10:16 AM)... Oct 29 2012, 05:30 PM Actionman Looks like a casting made in sand mold and the san... Oct 29 2012, 06:13 PM ronald Regarding the posts above I would bet on aeolian d... Oct 29 2012, 06:48 PM Eyesonmars QUOTE (EdTruthan @ Oct 29 2012, 02:08 AM)... Oct 29 2012, 08:31 PM Stu Hmmm... looks a bit shiny beneath the dust...
htt... Oct 29 2012, 11:18 PM walfy QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 29 2012, 03:18 PM) Meteo... Oct 30 2012, 05:43 AM walfy Just one more for tonight. Another take on this w... Oct 30 2012, 06:29 AM Zeke4ther That is truly amazing! Oct 30 2012, 07:30 AM jhagen First post...
I don't know how to link to the... Nov 1 2012, 08:26 AM jmknapp QUOTE (jhagen @ Nov 1 2012, 03:26 AM) Fir... Nov 1 2012, 10:53 AM jmknapp Sort of like bread dough. Oct 30 2012, 09:53 AM atomoid QUOTE (jmknapp @ Oct 30 2012, 02:53 AM) S... Oct 30 2012, 11:04 PM jmknapp To continue the food theme, in today's telecas... Oct 30 2012, 11:19 PM Hungry4info CheMin X-ray diffraction results. Feldspar, pyroxe... Oct 30 2012, 08:50 PM atomoid hmmm.. the 'closest thing to sand on Mars... Oct 30 2012, 11:55 PM dvandorn So, there's a significant feldspar content in ... Oct 31 2012, 03:40 AM john_s QUOTE (dvandorn @ Oct 30 2012, 09:40 PM) ... Oct 31 2012, 02:37 PM DFortes QUOTE (john_s @ Oct 31 2012, 02:37 PM) No... Nov 1 2012, 08:42 PM jmknapp Another interesting moment in the telecon was cour... Oct 31 2012, 10:26 AM ronald Yeah I remember that part too with Craig leaving t... Oct 31 2012, 11:22 AM dvandorn I hear you, John. I guess I ought to have stated ... Oct 31 2012, 04:38 PM Phil Stooke And just to add names to John's feldspar types... Oct 31 2012, 04:38 PM dvandorn Exactly, Phil -- what I just called alkali feldspa... Oct 31 2012, 04:45 PM drz1111 QUOTE (dvandorn @ Oct 31 2012, 11:45 AM) ... Nov 1 2012, 12:47 PM fredk A new stereo mahli view of Burwash. Taken from a ... Oct 31 2012, 05:24 PM ElkGroveDan QUOTE (fredk @ Oct 31 2012, 10:24 AM) A n... Oct 31 2012, 06:02 PM ronald Some "Et-then" and since my take on ... Oct 31 2012, 05:55 PM walfy QUOTE (ronald @ Oct 31 2012, 09:55 AM) my... Oct 31 2012, 06:56 PM stewjack Just a casual observation. However; I haven't... Oct 31 2012, 07:50 PM Explorer1 Telecon Friday morning, on atmospheric studies. Wh... Oct 31 2012, 09:19 PM elakdawalla I've gotten behind on MSL so spent today getti... Oct 31 2012, 11:15 PM fredk I guess you mean the series ending with these two ... Nov 1 2012, 04:02 AM Tesheiner Created a separate thread for this spectacular sel... Nov 1 2012, 08:31 PM paraisosdelsistemasolar
ChemCam shots on Sol 85. Nov 1 2012, 08:32 PM Reckless Hi Dom
I had heard that the rock Jake was said t... Nov 1 2012, 08:51 PM DFortes Hi Roy
I hadn't heard mugearite mentioned prev... Nov 1 2012, 09:16 PM elakdawalla This seems like a good moment to post a lengthy ex... Nov 1 2012, 09:27 PM Reckless Hi again Dom
I can't remember the source I th... Nov 1 2012, 11:10 PM Explorer1 Telecon visuals are up:
http://www.nasa.gov/missio... Nov 2 2012, 04:51 PM Hungry4info Confirmed, no CH4 detection just yet. But will con... Nov 2 2012, 05:17 PM xflare QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Nov 2 2012, 05:17 PM... Nov 2 2012, 05:20 PM Tom Tamlyn The prepared presentations have just finished.
IM... Nov 2 2012, 05:34 PM Hungry4info If I understand right, the CH4 abundance detected ... Nov 2 2012, 05:30 PM fredk I hope someone asks how the upper limit on methane... Nov 2 2012, 05:32 PM Hungry4info QUOTE (fredk @ Nov 2 2012, 12:32 PM) I ho... Nov 2 2012, 05:35 PM ronald Burwash and Et-Then Sol 84/85
Nov 3 2012, 05:38 PM abalone Just had a good look at the self-portrait and am a... Nov 3 2012, 11:01 PM djellison QUOTE (abalone @ Nov 3 2012, 04:01 PM) wi... Nov 4 2012, 04:50 AM Explorer1 It's just cosmetic; as long as the main struct... Nov 4 2012, 01:34 AM fredk No, don't shoot the sundial!
http://mars.j... Nov 4 2012, 04:49 AM Zelenyikot Interesting finding. This is a new bright objects?... Nov 4 2012, 11:28 PM Astro0 The mission team has said that it is likely that t... Nov 5 2012, 02:55 AM Zelenyikot Colored ChemCam Nov 5 2012, 05:51 AM Actionman QUOTE (Zelenyikot @ Nov 5 2012, 12:51 AM)... Nov 5 2012, 12:51 PM vikingmars When you look carefully at some sky images taken o... Nov 5 2012, 11:20 AM Actionman QUOTE (vikingmars @ Nov 5 2012, 06:20 AM)... Nov 5 2012, 01:23 PM Hungry4info Hot pixels...? Nov 5 2012, 12:19 PM Floyd Image chip pixels can fail in at least two ways-- ... Nov 5 2012, 02:09 PM Deimos A cosmetic blemish visible in a flat image need no... Nov 5 2012, 02:22 PM elakdawalla Also, watch out for the optical illusion that a gr... Nov 5 2012, 04:53 PM jardmonkey Here is my take on a Glenelg panorama from Sol 64.... Nov 5 2012, 08:17 PM Zelenyikot Anaglyphs from 66, 72, 79, 77 sols. Nov 5 2012, 10:10 PM Phil Stooke Zelenyikot, very nice work. I really like the Che... Nov 5 2012, 11:57 PM Zelenyikot Thank you. I am glad that I can at least thus join... Nov 6 2012, 12:36 AM Phil Stooke (Also that is a truly brilliant avatar!)
Phil Nov 6 2012, 12:56 AM Zelenyikot What do you like
Colored ChemCam from 71, 77, 79... Nov 6 2012, 05:24 AM eoincampbell Excellent ChemCam treatments! (still stumped o... Nov 6 2012, 03:16 PM RoverDriver QUOTE (Zelenyikot @ Nov 5 2012, 09:24 PM)... Nov 6 2012, 05:41 PM fredk Thanks for the coloured chemcam shots.
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