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It’s been a challenging week in Gale crater, but Curiosity and the rover team are ready to put those challenges behind us as we head into a busy...

While angular, pointy rocks have damaged the rover's wheels since early in the MSL mission, sometimes the wheels damage rocks as the rover drives over...

Every year scientists at the Astrogeology Science Center gear-up for the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, where we share our work and new...

The original plan for today was to do a short drive to get within reach of some interesting new rocks. But after studying all of the images from our...

Curiosity is investigating the different surface expressions of the Greenheugh pediment, and the weekend drive put the rover right next to some “gator...

Welcome! We’re offering a workshop in planetary geologic mapping, planned for Flagstaff, AZ, June 23- July 1.

Due to an issue with the Sol 3410 and 3411 plans, parts of the Sol 3410 plan didn’t execute and the planned drive did not occur.  But the Sol 3409...

Do you dream of mapping the Solar System to support NASA missions? Have you worked with planetary shape models, photogrammetry, or geodesy? We’re...

The drive on Sol 3397 went well and gave us some good perspective on the road ahead, as seen in the Navcam image below.  Curiosity is perched at the...

Did you know that there are rules for how features on other planets and moons in our Solar System are named? Craters on Venus, for example, are named...