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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 17, 2025 Curiosity has been investigating the “boxwork unit” for several months now. Readers might remember we drilled at the edge of the boxwork at “Altadena,” back in June. Since then, we haveContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4689-4694: Drill in the Boxwork Unit is GO!”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Diana Hayes, Graduate Student at York University, Toronto Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 10, 2025 This week was one of seasonal changes and milestones for the mission. As was mentioned several weeks ago, Mars has now moved out of its “cloudy season” and is transitioning into the “dustyContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4682-4688: Seven Mars Years”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 24, 2025 Curiosity has successfully drilled its 44th hole on Mars, which is a major milestone in our investigation of the enigmatic “boxwork unit,” a region of resistant ridges surrounding pits or “hollows” of less-resistantContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4695-4701: Searching for Answers at Monte Grande”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator at Framework Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 3, 2025 Before Curiosity landed 13 years ago, the science team eyed all the geologic wonders scattered across the flanks of Mount Sharp and looked forward to the day when we could put the roverContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4675-4681: Deciding Where to Dig Into the Boxworks”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the image is the 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, which extends from a data grapple fixture on the International Space Station’s HarmonyContinue reading “A Robotic Helping Hand”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Perseverance Encounters a Possible Meteorite Written by Candice Bedford, Research Scientist at Purdue University Oct. 1, 2025 During the rover’s recent investigation of the bedrock at “Vernodden,” Perseverance encountered an unusually shaped rock about 80 centimeters across (about 31 inches) called “Phippsaksla.” This rock was identified as a target ofContinue reading “A Stranger in Our Midst?”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s Technology Transfer Office invites entrepreneurs, innovators, and creative thinkers to apply NASA’s patented technologies to practical applications. Participants will select an existing NASA patent and develop a business or product concept that will be evaluated based on value proposition, business model viability, development feasibility, and quality of presentation. EntriesContinue reading “NASA Patent Remix Challenge”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Meet the “Scene Select Mechanism”—Part of the LDCM Thermal Infrared Sensor Special Topics: LDCM and LDCM Components The Scene Select Mechanism is an apparatus that rotates the LDCM Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) mirror among three scenes: the Earth view (“nadir;” when imaging the Earth), and two calibration views (one ofContinue reading “Meet the “Scene Select Mechanism”—Part of the LDCM Thermal Infrared Sensor”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY LDCM Operational Land Imager (OLI) Telescope Special Topics: LDCM and LDCM Components The OLI telescope uses a four-mirror compact design. The optics are positioned inside a lightweight, yet highly stable, carbon composite optical bench (i.e., a substrate on which the optics are mounted) that has special features to control undesiredContinue reading “LDCM Operational Land Imager (OLI) Telescope”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Landsat Data Continuity Mission Becomes an Observatory • Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, Ariz., have installed the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument back onto to the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft. With both the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and TIRS instruments now on the spacecraft, LDCM is a completeContinue reading