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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.
Written 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…
Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS Team Member, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth Planning Date: Monday, Aug. 18, 2025 The downlink data from our weekend activities arrived on Earth as we started planning this morning. As the…
Written by Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 Today we uplinked a three-sol weekend plan with lots of exciting activities — to support both the science and engineering teams! …
Written by Elena Amador-French, Science Operations Coordinator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025 Today’s team investigated the texture and chemistry of the bedrock within a topographic low, or hollow, found within the greater boxwork…
Earth 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…
Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 8, 2025 We continue to progress through the boxwork structures, arriving today at the “peace sign” ridges we were aiming for in our last drive. We’re…
Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025 Today was a very special day for Curiosity as the rover celebrated the start of a 14th year on Mars. Curiosity…
Written by Ashley Stroupe, Mission Operations Engineer and Rover Planner at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. Now that we have reached August, our “landiversary” (anniversary of landing — Aug. 5 PDT) is less than…
Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Monday, Aug. 4, 2025. We are on the cusp of another anniversary of the Curiosity rover’s successful landing on Mars! The rover…
Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 The day started with a little celebration of NISAR, a new Earth observation satellite that made it successfully into…