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Curiosity Rover Updates 

These updates are provided by self-selected Mars Science Laboratory mission team members who love to share what Curiosity is doing with the public. Dates of planned rover activities described in these reports are subject to change due to a variety of factors related to the Martian environment, communication relays and rover status.

Sols 4454-4457: Getting Ready to Fill the Long Weekend with Science
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Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 Curiosity is continuing to make progress along the strategic route, traversing laterally across the sulfate (salt) bearing unit toward the boxwork structures. The team celebrated the completion of another successful drive when we…

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Sols 4452-4453: Keeping Warm and Keeping Busy
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Earth planning date: Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025 I woke up this morning to my weather app telling me it felt like minus 15° C (5°F) outside. On days like this, it can take me a little longer to get myself…

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Sols 4450-4451: Making the Most of a Monday
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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 our mostly-full Moon and Mars; an entire planet hanging in the sky between our Moon and the atmospheric phenomenon. As…

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Sols 4447–4449: Looking Back at the Marker Band Valley
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Earth planning date: Friday, Feb. 7, 2025 We are continuing our merry way alongside “Texoli” butte, heading toward the boxworks feature in the distance, our next major waypoint. This is a series of large-scale ridges, which appear from orbital data…

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Sols 4445–4446: Cloudy Days are Here
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Earth planning date: Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025 Overnight before planning today, Mars reached a solar longitude of 40 degrees. The solar longitude is how we like to measure where we are in a Mars year. Each year starts at 0…

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Sols 4443-4444: Four Fours for February
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Earth planning date: Monday, Feb. 3, 2025 Another successful weekend plan left us about 23 meters (about 75 feet) farther down our Mount Sharp Ascent Route (MSAR), with all our science data downlinked to Earth and the planet clocks aligned…

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Sols 4441-4442: Winter is Coming
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Earth planning date: Friday, Jan. 31, 2025 Here in Earth’s northern hemisphere, the days are slowly getting longer, bringing with them the promise of an end to winter. While we are anticipating the return of warmer temperatures, just over 100…

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Sols 4439-4440: A Lunar New Year on Mars
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Earth planning date: Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025 We’re planning sols 4439 and 4440 on the first day of the Lunar New Year here on Earth, and I’m the Geology/Mineralogy Science Theme Lead for today. The new year is a time…

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Sols 4437-4438: Coordinating our Dance Moves
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Earth planning date: Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 I was Geology and Mineralogy (Geo) Science Team lead today, and my day started with a bang and a drum roll — delivered by a rare winter thunderstorm (rare here in England, at…

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Sols 4434-4436: Last Call for Clouds
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Earth planning date: Friday, Jan. 24, 2025 Fires are still burning in southern California, continuously affecting so many on our mission. Here in San Diego, where we operate the Mastcams (and MAHLI and MARDI) from Malin Space Science Systems, we…

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