18th July 2013 Sol 337

We are getting into the new routine of driving e.g. 30 or 40 m per day together with science observations, in particular from the mast instruments.  The landscape is changing as we are no longer surrounded by outcrops and instead there are scattered rocks which are a mixture of rocks eroded from underlying layers and ejecta from impacts within Gale Crater.

There is continuing great interest about Curiosity’s mission – on Monday I visited the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire to film a short piece for the BBC Sky at Night.  On Tuesday I visted the UK Space Conference in Glasgow, where Curiosity was one of the runners up for the Arthur C. Clarke international achievement award.