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Curiosity's Dusty Self. Winds on Mars can't actually blow spacecraft over. But in the low gravity, martian winds can loft fine dust particles in planet-wide storms, like the dust storm now raging on the Red Planet. From the martian surface on June 15, this self-portrait from the Curiosity rover shows the effects of the dust storm, reducing sunlight and visibility at the rover's location in Gale crater. Made with the Mars Hand Lens Imager, its mechanical arm is edited out of the mosaicked images.The east-northeast Gale crater rim fading into the background is about 30 km away. Curiosity is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator and is expected to be unaffected by the increase in dust at Gale crater. On the other side of Mars, the solar-powered Opportunity rover has ceased its operations due to the even more severe lack of sunlight at its location on the west rim of Endeavour crater.

Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS, Curiosity Mars Rover
Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)

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In 2012, on August 5th (PDT - California time) or August 6th (UTC), the Curiosity rover landed on Mars. On the first anniversary, engineers at Goddard Space Flight Center programmed Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument to "sing" Happy Birthday.

Curiosity doesn't do this every year because of the power drain involved, and explained this in a birthday Tweet.

"I touched down on #Mars six years ago. Celebrating my 6th landing anniversary with the traditional gift of iron... oxide. (It puts the red in Red Planet.)"

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Is Curiosity the only rover out there? I should keep up more with astronomical events!


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Korie, Curiosity isn't alone. Opportunity is still operational over 15 years after landing on Mars. Opportunity's twin Spirit sent the last communication in 2010, being stuck in a sand trap and finally finished off by a Martian winter. However we have to remember that Spirit and Opportunity's missions were only expected to last for three Martian months (only slightly longer than Earth months). They landed in January 2004, so even Spirit last for 6 years!

Millions of people followed the treks of the Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity as they explored the red planet. In 2009 Spirit became trapped and was last heard from in March 2010. After a year being unable to contact her, on May 24, 2011, with sadness, NASA formally ended her mission.

Good-bye Spirit

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Here is part of a panorama, made from images acquired by Opportunity last year.You can see the rover tracks.

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NASA has begun the 45-day signaling period for Opportunity Opportunity has been silent since June, when a global Mars dust storm blotted out the sun over the solar-powered rover's location. Now the air is clearing, and NASA will be signaling multiple times each day for 45 days. Will the rover respond?

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State University.

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