By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 7, 2026 This week was very special for the Curiosity team here on Earth as we celebrated the 14th landing anniversary. I still remember watching the buildup to the entry phase on “Eyes on the Solar System”
Before launching The Savvy Couple in 2016, Kelan Kline had reached a breaking point. He and his wife, Brittany, had recently married, bought a starter home, and begun paying down roughly $40,000 in student loans. Brittany was an elementary school teacher, while Kelan worked as a jail deputy. The couple, who grew up in Rochester,
It’s almost time for the Made by Google keynote, where the company will show off the brand-new Pixel hardware it announced today. Like last year, it’ll be a celebrity-packed live show, though Trevor Noah is hosting instead of Jimmy Fallon. If the 2025 show was any indication, today’s broadcast might be something of a cringefest.
Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 31, 2026 As mentioned in the previous blog, Curiosity has been exploring a large-scale feature in Gale’s sedimentary record suspected to be an “erosional supersurface.” The “supersurface” represents a period in time when a net depositional environment changed
Written by Alex Innanen, atmospheric scientist at York University, Toronto Ground planning date: Friday, July 10, 2026 Curiosity had a successful long weekend and started this week ready to explore some more. We have been moving fairly quickly through different mapped “units,” or different geological areas of interest, visiting a different one at each of
Written by Deborah Padgett, MSL Operations Products Ground System Task Leader at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Land Planning Date: Thursday, July 2, 2026 Curiosity spent the week leading up to the July 4 holiday approaching a geologic boundary between a very smooth but somewhat sandy region and a rougher bedrock unit. Leaving the polygonal terrain
