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Emily Lakdawalla

It's a writing day today! It's been a long time since I've paid close attention to activities, so today my goal is to orient myself to time and place on the mission. In this thread I'll share the resources I use to figure that out.

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Emily Lakdawalla

My first book gave a very brief overview of the mission up to sol 1648, at which point the rover had crossed the Bagnold dune field and was headed to Vera Rubin Ridge. At JPL's "Where Is the Rover Now?" page I can see a dynamic map of the rover's position and past route. It's now sol 3771.
mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/wher
The pics here are from my book and a screencap from the JPL website.

Figure 3.4 from my book "The Design and Engineering of Curiosity." It shows the route of Curiosity across the floor of Gale crater from Yellowknife Bay to Murray buttes, then across the Bagnold Dunes. The route changes from solid line to dotted right before it reaches Vera Rubin Ridge, indicating what was the future route after the book was published. The caption reads: "Figure 3.4. Route map for the mission to sol 1800. Bold text denotes drill or scoop sites. Map by Emily Lakdawalla on a base image of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter CTX mosaic colorized with Mars Express HRSC image."
A screen cap from JPL's "Where Is the Rover" page. It shows part of the rover rout from Ogunquit Beach at the south side of the Bagnold dune field, across Vera Rubin Ridge, to the base of the Greenheugh Pediment, around a dark blot of sand dunes, and then up into the knobby hills of Mount Sharp, with a little symbol indicating the rover's current position as of sol 3771.
Emily Lakdawalla

My next stop for information on rover activities is the Analyst's Notebook, a browse tool to landed spacecraft data hosted by the Geosciences node of the Planetary Data System, which is located at Wash U. St. Louis. Do you like data from space? Check this out. I love the Analyst's notebook for how it provides an interface to a whole data collection together.
an.rsl.wustl.edu/

This part may take me a while as I swim in

an.rsl.wustl.eduAnalyst's NotebookThe Analyst's Notebook is a web application that integrates sequence information, engineering and science data, and documentation from NASA's landed missions on Mars and Earth's Moon.
#space#scicomm#CuriosityBook
Mar 17, 2023, 04:19 PM·Public
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