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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4655-4660: Boxworks With a ViewIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Sep 15, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4655-4660: Boxworks With a ViewWritten by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Friday Sept. 12, 2025 Curiosity continues to image, analyze, and traverse through a landscape characterized by higher standing ridges separating low-lying depressions (hollows) — a surface known as the boxwork terrain on Mount Sharp. The science team […]
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4649-4654: Ridges, Hollows and Nodules, Oh MyIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Sep 12, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4649-4654: Ridges, Hollows and Nodules, Oh MyWritten by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS Team Member, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 5, 2025 Curiosity is in the midst of the boxwork campaign, trying to decipher why we see such pronounced ridges and hollows in this area of Mount Sharp. When this terrain was first identified from […]
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4641-4648: Thinking Outside and Inside the ‘Boxwork’IMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Sep 4, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4641-4648: Thinking Outside and Inside the ‘Boxwork’Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer and Rover Planner at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning week: Aug. 25, 2025. This week Curiosity has been exploring the boxwork unit, investigating both the ridges and the hollows to better characterize them and understand how they may have formed. We’ve been doing lots of remote science, […]
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4636-4637: Up Against a WallIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Aug 21, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4636-4637: Up Against a WallWritten by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator, Framework Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025 What does a good rover do when her back is up against a wall? Fight for science! Curiosity indeed fought the good fight at “Río Frío,” the wall of one of the many ridges cutting through the boxwork terrain […]
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4627-4628: A Ridge Stop in the BoxworksIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Aug 15, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4627-4628: A Ridge Stop in the BoxworksEarth planning date: Monday Aug. 11, 2025 Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center On the Curiosity team, we’re continuing our exploration of the boxwork-forming region in Gale Crater. A successful 25-meter drive (about 82 feet) brought the rover from the “peace sign” ridge intersection to a new ridge site. […]
NASA Glenn Names University Student Design Challenge WinnerIMAGE
nasa.gov• Aug 13, 2025• 1 min read
NASA Glenn Names University Student Design Challenge WinnerA student team from The Ohio State University secured first place in NASA Glenn Research Center’s 2025-2026 University Student Design Challenge for their innovative design aimed at managing fluids in space. The team will develop a working prototype as part of their senior capstone project during the upcoming academic year. On June 23, the team […]
Curiosity Looks Back Toward Its Landing SiteIMAGE
nasa.gov• Aug 6, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Looks Back Toward Its Landing SiteNASA’s Curiosity rover captured a view of its tracks on July 26, 2025. The robotic scientist is now exploring a region of lower Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain. The pale peak of the mountain can be seen at top right; the rim of Gale Crater, within which the mountain sits, is on the horizon […]
Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New SkillsIMAGE
nasa.gov• Aug 4, 2025• 1 min read
Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New SkillsNew capabilities allow the rover to do science with less energy from its batteries. Thirteen years since Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The six-wheeled robot has been given more autonomy and the ability to multitask — improvements designed to make the most of Curiosity’s […]
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4614-4615: Driving Along the BoxworkIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jul 30, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4614-4615: Driving Along the BoxworkWritten by Conor Hayes, Graduate Student at York University Earth planning date: Monday, July 28, 2025 Today was a pretty straightforward day of planning. Our drive over the weekend completed successfully, and we quickly confirmed that we are parked in a stable position. Thus, we were able to unstow the rover’s arm to poke around […]
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4609–4610: Recharged and Ready To Roll OnwardsIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jul 28, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4609–4610: Recharged and Ready To Roll OnwardsWritten by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 For today’s planning, we were in the same workspace as the Monday plan — on purpose! We don’t often have a plan without a drive but in order to allow the battery to recover from some power-hungry […]
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4604-4606: Taking a Deep Breath of Martian AirIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jul 22, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4604-4606: Taking a Deep Breath of Martian AirWritten by Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 18, 2025 Curiosity has started to investigate the main exposure of the boxwork structures! What was once a distant target is now on our doorstep, and Curiosity is beginning to explore the ridges and hollows that make up this […]
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4600-4601: Up and Over the Sand Covered RampIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jul 16, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4600-4601: Up and Over the Sand Covered RampWritten by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Monday, July 14, 2025 The Curiosity rover continues to navigate through the region of Mount Sharp characterized by the boxwork terrain. After successfully completing a drive of about 34 meters over the weekend (about 112 feet), the […]
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4597-4599: Wide Open SpacesIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jul 16, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4597-4599: Wide Open SpacesWritten by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator, Framework Earth planning date: Friday, July 11, 2025 Imagine this vista as the view out your office window to start your workday. Your natural tendency would be to grab your camera and photograph as much of the view as possible. Curiosity was lucky enough to find herself […]
Curiosity Blog, Sol 4588: Ridges and troughsIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jul 7, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sol 4588: Ridges and troughsWritten by Lucy Thompson, APXS Collaborator and Senior Research Scientist at the University of New Brunswick, CanadaEarth planning date: Wednesday, July 2, 2025As we traverse the boxwork terrain, we are encountering a series of more resistant ridges/bedrock patches, and areas that are more rubbly and tend to form lower relief polygonal or trough-like features. We […]
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4586-4587: Straight Drive, Strategic ScienceIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jul 2, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4586-4587: Straight Drive, Strategic ScienceWritten by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Earth planning date: Monday, June 30, 2025 Our weekend drive placed Curiosity exactly where we had hoped: on lighter-toned, resistant bedrock we have been eyeing for close study. Curiosity’s workspace tosol did not contain any targets suitable for DRT. After a detailed discussion […]
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4584 – 4585: Just a Small BumpIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jul 1, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4584 – 4585: Just a Small BumpWritten by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, June 27, 2025 We weren’t able to unstow Curiosity’s robotic arm on Wednesday because of some potentially unstable rocks under Curiosity’s wheels, but we liked the rocks at Wednesday’s location enough that we decided to spend a sol repositioning […]
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4580-4581: Something in the Air…IMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jun 26, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4580-4581: Something in the Air…Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis Earth planning date: Monday, June 23, 2025 Curiosity was back at work on Monday, with a full slate of activities planned. While summer has officially arrived for much of Curiosity’s team back on Earth, Mars’ eldest active rover is recently through the depths […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Starts Unpacking Boxwork FormationsIMAGE
nasa.gov• Jun 23, 2025• 1 min read
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Starts Unpacking Boxwork FormationsThe rover recently drilled a sample from a new region with features that could reveal whether Mars’ subsurface once provided an environment suitable for life. New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only from orbit. The images and data being collected are already […]
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4577-4579: Watch the SkiesIMAGE
science.nasa.gov• Jun 21, 2025• 1 min read
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4577-4579: Watch the SkiesWritten by Deborah Padgett, OPGS Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, June 20, 2025 During the plan covering Sols 4575-4576, Curiosity continued our investigation of mysterious boxwork structures on the shoulders of Mount Sharp. After a successful 56-meter drive (about 184 feet), Curiosity is now parked in a trough cutting […]