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- Curiosity Blog, Sols 5022-5028: Cashing in at Cache Creek NASA · 4 Oct 2026 Written by Lucy Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 25, 2026 Before we landed, the area of Gale crater that we planned to explore was divided up int...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4954–4960: Celebrating Our Rover Engineers Past and Present NASA · 24 Jul 2026 Written by Lucy Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, July 27, 2026 As an APXS uplink lead and strategic planner, I have the privilege of working with the r...
- Curiosity Blog: Sols 4913-4919: Planetary explorers, freewheeling to the Yardang unit! NASA · 10 Jun 2026 Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning day: Friday, June 5th, 2026 In a very broad sense, Curiosity has two mode...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4845-4851: Bye-Bye Boxwork, Bye-Bye NASA · 13 Apr 2026 Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Strategic Planner and Planetary Geologist at the University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, March 27, 2026 Last weekend’s drive took us just over the southernmost cont...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4832–4837: Driving the (Contact) Line! NASA · 18 Mar 2026 Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, March 13, 2026 We are in our final phase of the boxwork cam...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4750-4762: See You on the Other Side of the Sun NASA · 23 Dec 2025 Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS team member, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Monday, Dec. 22, 2025 As we all prepare for the holiday season here on Earth, we have been plan...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4709-4715: Drilling High and Low in the Boxwork Unit NASA · 18 Nov 2025 Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 We are in the most intensive phase of the boxw...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4689-4694: Drill in the Boxwork Unit is GO! NASA · 14 Nov 2025 Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 17, 2025 Curiosity has been investigating the “boxwork unit” for several months now....
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4649-4654: Ridges, Hollows and Nodules, Oh My NASA · 12 Sep 2025 Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS Team Member, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 5, 2025 Curiosity is in the midst of the boxwork campaign, trying to decipher why...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4634-4635: A Waiting Game NASA · 19 Aug 2025 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 star...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4609–4610: Recharged and Ready To Roll Onwards NASA · 28 Jul 2025 Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 23, 2025 For today’s planning, we were in the same workspace as the Monday plan — on purpose!...
- Curiosity Blog, Sol 4588: Ridges and troughs NASA · 7 Jul 2025 Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Collaborator and Senior Research Scientist at the University of New Brunswick, CanadaEarth planning date: Wednesday, July 2, 2025As we traverse the boxwork terrain, we are encountering a se...
- Curiosity Blog, Sols 4575-4576: Perfect Parking Spot NASA · 20 Jun 2025 Written by Lucy Thompson, APXS Collaborator and Senior Research Scientist at the University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 Not only did our drive execute perfectly, Curiosity ended up in o...
- Sol 4553: Back to the Boxwork! NASA · 30 May 2025 Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Tuesday, May 27, 2005 We return to planning today after a successful long weekend and about 42 meters of drive distance (a...
- Sols 4532-4533: Polygon Heaven NASA · 8 May 2025 Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Monday, May 5, 2025 Our 29-meter weekend drive (about 95 feet) was successful, and we are still in the band o...
- Sols 4529-4531: Honeycombs and Waffles… on Mars! NASA · 6 May 2025 Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Friday, May 2, 2025 From our Wednesday stopping spot, the drive direction ahead (looking along the path we wo...
- Sols 4515-4517: Silver Linings NASA · 21 Apr 2025 Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Friday, April 18, 2025 As the APXS operations person today, I was hopeful that we could plan a compositional measurement a...
- Sols 4505-4506: Up, up and onto the Devil’s Gate NASA · 8 Apr 2025 Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Monday, April 7, 2025 Over the weekend, we completed our drive up the steep side of a canyon, up onto “Devil’...
- Sols 4486-4487: Ankle-Breaking Kind of Terrain! NASA · 22 Mar 2025 Written by Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 This terrain is a tricky drive, with rocks angled chaotically all around. One of ou...