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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!

Curiosity Sends Holiday Postcard from Mars - NASA Team members working with NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover created this “postcard” by commanding the rover to take images at two times of day on Nov. 18, 2025,

www.nasa.gov/image-articl... Stunning field site on Mars!

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! - NASA Science By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, U.K.

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

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TIME Best Inventions Hall of Fame See the most iconic inventions of the past 25 years

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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 - NASA Science By Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK

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

A dual left/right stereoscopic pair of black and white photographies capturing a Martian landscape. This dual image is intended to be used to obtain a Stereo3D rendition of the scene through parallel viewing, and not cross-eyed viewing.

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 🧪🔭

A rounded area of sandy pits are intersected by rocky ridges to form a peace sign shape on the Martian surface.

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)

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4622-4623: Kicking Off (Earth) Year 14 With an Investigation of Veins - NASA Science Written by Abigail Fraeman, Deputy Project Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Happy Landiversary Curiosity. <3

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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

A grey scale image of a boulder located about 40 meters (about 131 feet) away from the rover at the time. NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image using its Chemistry & Camera (ChemCam) instrument. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL

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

Sols 4520-4521: Prinzregententorte - NASA Science Written by Scott VanBommel, Planetary Scientist at Washington University

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!

Sols 4466-4468: Heading Into the Small Canyon - NASA Science Written by Susanne Schwenzer, Planetary Geologist at The Open University

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!

Online Flipbook Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker

heyzine.com/flip-book/b0..., what a journey! Thanks to all who travelled with us!

Rocks and sand. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

The current workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 4450 drive this week.

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'Iridescent' clouds on Mars captured in Martian twilight in stunning NASA rover images (video) "I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact."

What do clouds on Mars look like?
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Sols 4445–4446: Cloudy Days are Here - NASA Science Earth planning date: Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025

Just a normal day on Mars.... Go, Curiosity, go! science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-44...

New year, new paper! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sols 4398-4401: Holidays Ahead, Rocks Under the Wheels - NASA Science Earth planning date: Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024 It’s almost holiday time, and preparations are going ahead on Earth and Mars! For myself that means having a packed suitcase sitting behind me to go on my...

Sols 4398-4401: Holidays Ahead, Rocks Under the Wheels

by Susanne Schwenzer @spsmars.bsky.social
science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-43... 🧪 #planetaryscience #Mars