Dawn on Mars

My adventures as a science team member on Curiosity, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Shutdown

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The shutdown has yet to affect Curiosity operations except for the fact that those of us who are not government employees are taking operati...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Planning Curiosity's First Scoop

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Our first set of 5 science papers on results from scooping martian dirt with Curiosity were published this week.  Those results and papers s...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

Waypoint 1 Mysteries

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Over the last 4 weeks, I spent more than 100 hours preparing for our science campaign at "Waypoint 1", also called Darwin.  (See t...

No Methane on Mars

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Late last week, a paper was published from our team that shows that there is very little methane in the martian atmosphere.  Methane is a r...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Curiosity's Longest Drive Yet!

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The "Darwin" Outcrop Curiosity did its longest drive yet late last week: Press release .  It was beautiful! I spent the l...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Curiosity in 3D in KeckCAVES!

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This video is in 3D, filmed using KeckCAVES software with a JPL CAD model of Curiosity This is super cool, but my real dream i...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Curiosity Update - On our way to Mt. Sharp with a bit of mudstone

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It's been a while since I've posted anything.  It was a crazy-busy spring from me trying to teach as well as keep up with my work fo...
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Dawn Sumner
I'm a professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UCDavis. My blog consists of a travel log for projects in Antarctica. Other online information from me includes sumnerd on YouTube.
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