Cookies, Cream, and Crumbling Cores

A color photograph shows a close-up of a rock on Mars, with surface that appears a very pale mint green, flecked with innumerable black specks, looking like the top of a freshly opened tub of mint chocolate chip ice cream.

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Cookies, Cream, and Crumbling Cores

February 17, 2025

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Sols 4454-4457: Getting Ready to Fill the Long Weekend with Science

February 17, 2025

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Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 Curiosity is continuing to make progress along the strategic route, traversing laterally across ...

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Sols 4452-4453: Keeping Warm and Keeping Busy

February 14, 2025

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Earth planning date: Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025 I woke up this morning to my weather app telling me it felt ...

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Sols 4450-4451: Making the Most of a Monday

February 12, 2025

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Earth planning date: Monday, Feb. 10, 2025 Last Saturday around 20:00 Pacific Standard Time I saw a 22-degree halo encircling ...

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Sols 4447–4449: Looking Back at the Marker Band Valley

February 11, 2025

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Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 7, 2025 We are continuing our merry way alongside “Texoli” butte, heading toward the boxworks ...

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Sols 4445–4446: Cloudy Days are Here

February 7, 2025

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Earth planning date: Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025 Overnight before planning today, Mars reached a solar longitude of 40 degrees. The ...

A color image showing a pale tan-orange rock surface, which is smooth in some areas and rough, and layered in others, like a stucco wall. Resting atop the surface are lines creating various shapes – a hexagon dominating the image center, a diamond nestled below that, others off to the lower right and right sides of the image. These lines trace areas making them look like walled gardens viewed overhead from a great height.

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Sols 4443-4444: Four Fours for February

February 6, 2025

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