Thursday 20th December Sol 133

Curiosity and its team will soon take a break over the Christmas holidays .  However in the meantime we are using the opportunity to examine different parts of Yellowknife and its rocks.  The image shows the granular texture of one of the rock layers, taken by our ‘hand lens’ imager MAHLI.  Everyone on the team is very happy about our progress and findings over the last month. 

Our science discussions are now very different as they are conducted remotely but the sense of excitement as we go through the downlinked data is still there as much as ever. 

 

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This blog is a record of my experiences and work during the Mars Science Laboratory mission, from the preparation, landing on August 5th 2012 Pacific Time, and onwards... I will also post updates about our other Mars work on meteorites, ExoMars and new missions. You can also follow the planetary science activities with @LeicsPlanets Professor John Bridges, School of Physics and Astronomy

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