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Excellent and unusual venue for a talk about the NASA Curiosity rover! Thanks @ougeolsoc.bsky.social London Branch for the invite. Also talked about @astrobiologyou.bsky.social , of course!
Just in case you are wondering what I got so excited about this week!
Happy start of the Holiday Season. Enjoy the treats of the season.
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4702-4708: It’s Only Spooky Here on Earth Today!
By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, U.K.
@spsmars.bsky.social
Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 31, 2025
science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosi...
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Shout out to all, who made it happen! 13 years and counting!
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4661-4667: Peaking Into the Hollows
By Susanne P. Schwenzer @spsmars.bsky.social, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK
science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosi... #Mars 🧪 #PlanetSci
Congratulations!
👀 incoming Mastcam mosaic / Stereo3D view of this most peculiar rock. Stay tuned!
rkinnett.github.io/roverpics/?m... @rkinnett.bsky.social #Mars 🧪 #PlanetSci
Giving me the blues! #Jeremejevite has piezoelectric properties, which wow! But I went with #Haüyne because it’s formed in volcanoes and I loves me some volcanoes 🌋! Also, the discoverer named it after himself almost on the spot, so mad respect to René-Just Haüy there. And, ümlaüts rule. #MinCup25
Stereo3D view captured by Curiosity from within a trough of the boxwork structure
To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye.
#Mars Aug. 26, 2025 - Sol 4641
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech 🧪🔭
A Stereo3D view captured by Curiosity at that location on the ridge with her Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI)
To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye.
#Mars Aug. 8, 2025 - Sol 4623
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS 🧪🔭
Peace and love from planet Mars (Curiosity NavCam imaging from the afternoon of Sol 4623, August 8, 2025)
New Paper Published. I am incredibly proud of this one. I agreed to this review when I was the branch chief of research and thought I could get the paper done in about 6 months....then multiple job shifts happened and the paper was submitted just over a year and 6 months after I said yes. (1/4)
Today, 13 years ago, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars. What a journey of science and discovery, of collegiality and thinking. Go, Curiosity! What a privilege to be a tiny part of the journey.
Luke Jerram's Mars installation, including a mesmerising sound track.... and on Saturday Luke himself... visited the OU this weekend. So exciting, so much fun. So many great conversations, from science to art to philosophy. What a privilege! @AstrobiologyOU @lukejerram.bsky.social
Check out the latest Curiosity rover mission update by @spsmars.bsky.social
Sols 4473-4474: So Many Rocks, So Many Textures!
☑️ science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-44... #Mars 🧪 #PlanetSci
Curiosity rover mission updates: three new posts by Lucy Thompson, Susanne Schwenzer @spsmars.bsky.social, and Scott VanBommel
☑️ Silver Linings science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-45...
☑️ Thumbs up from Mars science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-45...
☑️ Prinzregententorte science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-45...
#Mars 🧪🔭
Not often that I find myself highlighted!
Curiosity rover updates: three new posts by Lucy Thompson, Lauren Edgar and Susanne Schwenzer @spsmars.bsky.social
☑️ Salty Salton Sea? science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-44...
☑️ Making Good Progress science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-44...
☑️ Heading Into the Small Canyon science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-44...
#Mars 🧪🔭
Let's catch up, just because we can. Coffee in hand, for no reason other than that we are both scientists thinking about the same planet, or planets, just as we would at LPSC. Email me your availability.... if you want.
First sign of winter being over!
heyzine.com/flip-book/b0..., what a journey! Thanks to all who travelled with us!
The current workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 4450 drive this week.
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Just a normal day on Mars.... Go, Curiosity, go! science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-44...
Sols 4398-4401: Holidays Ahead, Rocks Under the Wheels
by Susanne Schwenzer @spsmars.bsky.social
science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-43... 🧪 #planetaryscience #Mars
