Sols 4479-4480: What IS That Lumpy, Bumpy Rock?

A grayscale photograph of the Martian surface by the Curiosity rover captures medium gray soil with exposed small to medium sized rocks scattered around. Two medium sized rocks just in front of the rover stand out – unlike the smooth or sharp-edged ones around them, they look very rough-textured and bumpy, like a large clump of granola. The bottom of the frame shows parts of the rover, running from the middle left edge to the lower right corner of the image, including part of its robotic arm which carries a nameplate imprinted with “Curiosity” outlined in white, all-capital letters, and to the right of that a line drawing of the rover.

Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 The days are getting shorter and colder for Curiosity as we head into winter. So our rover is sleeping in a bit before waking up to a busy plan. Today I served as the Engineering Uplink … Continue reading Sols 4479-4480: What IS That Lumpy, Bumpy Rock?