Monthly Archives: November 2011

Huge smiles – of happiness and relief – yesterday when NASA’s “next Mars rover”, Curiosity, finally blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre and headed for Mars. Delayed by two years, the launch of the Atlas rocket was flawless, and … Continue reading →

Oppy seems to be settling down at Turkey Haven for the long Thanksgiving weekend – a weekend which will also see (we hope!) the launch of “Curiosity”, the next-generation nuclear-powered, laser-toting, monster-wheeled, kick-ass Mars rover at the start of its own … Continue reading →

Oppy seems to be settling down quite nicely at the stone-scattered, rubble-strewn rocky outcrop known as “Turkey Haven”, and new pictures taken by her forward-facing hazard cameras – or Hazcams – suggest she is preparing to do some studying of … Continue reading →

The last time we checked in on Oppy she was continuing to make her way north, searching for a place to weather the winter after running over poor Homestake, wheels spinning in the dust like a bank robber making a fast … Continue reading →

I think many of you will agree that one of the best things about the whole MER mission is the way that members of its science team have made themselves so accessible to members of the media and the public, … Continue reading →

Oppy has now left Homestake far, far behind, and is making her way north at a respectable speed, looking for a place to spend the winter. The latest pics show she has moved to within sight of the farthest northerly … Continue reading →

Martian Police are urgently seeking witnesses to a horrific hit and run incident which occurred on Cape York a couple of sols ago. Photographs taken at the scene suggest that the popular, light-toned feature known as “Homestake” was run over … Continue reading →

New pictures sent back by Oppy suggest she has moved away from the light-toned vein of minerals known as “Homestake” and is now studying a broader, flatter area of similarly bright material a short distance away… That’s the view through … Continue reading →

Phew, a rather quieter day today; just a handful of new pictures came back, but they were goodies, and with a bit of work I was able to turn them into this… Some intriguing and fsacinating detail on the top … Continue reading →

Well, ok, not hysteria exactly, but rover fans, science bloggers and space journalists are all going quite nuts over the light-toned “vein” of rock which Oppy has found – and is now studying – on the north-western side of Cape … Continue reading →