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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4982–4987: Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming – NASA Science 0
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- August 23, 2026
By Allison Dries-Padilla, Missions Operations Specialist at Malin Space Science Systems Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 14, 2026 This week of Curiosity Mars rover operations takes us back to our “regularly scheduled programming.” After taking a slight detour to investigate the “erosional surface” we are back on course to ascend Mount Sharp. As we transition
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4975-4981: Happy 14th Landing Anniversary – NASA Science 0
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- August 18, 2026
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”
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4968-4974: Rock Climbing Towards the Discontinuity – NASA Science 0
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- August 11, 2026
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
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Curiosity rover spots ancient sea of Martian polygons 0
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- August 3, 2026
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4961-4967: Approaching a Break in the Rock Record? – NASA Science 0
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- August 1, 2026
Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Earth planning date: Friday, July 24, 2026 Curiosity spent the week continuing to climb her way up through the layers of Mount Sharp, exploring the sedimentary rock strip chart of Martian history. The rover has reached a layer where the science
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers a Field of Honeycomb Textures – NASA 0
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- July 29, 2026
When NASA’s Curiosity rover recently began ascending a Martian valley nicknamed “Big Valley,” it sent back images that were familiar to scientists on the mission: honeycomb textures called polygonal fractures, each about 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 8 centimeters) wide. The mission has detected small specks of these geometric shapes several times before, but
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