Curiosity Blog, Sols 4716-4722: Drilling Success at Nevado Sajama

Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator at Framework Earth planning date: Friday, Nov. 14, 2025 From Curiosity’s ridge-top perch among the boxwork unit, the highlight of the week was the successful drilling of the “Nevado Sajama” target. The data collected by APXS, ChemCam, and MAHLI from the rover workspace and its immediate vicinity […]

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4709-4715: Drilling High and Low in the Boxwork Unit

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 boxwork structures investigation — the drill campaign. The boxwork campaign group requested a pair of drilled targets — one in a hollow (the […]

Tap-in, tap-out convenience for 21 more stations in southeast England

‘Pay as you go with contactless’ has been extended to an additional 21 stations in the London area and southeast England.