Written by Susan B. Shoinzer, professor of planetary minerals at the Open University, UK
Earth Planning Date: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
Today, with a little celebration of NISAR, a new satellite to monitor Earth successfully made it in orbit a few hours before our planning started. We have joined the saying “Go Nisar, NASA, JPL and ISRO” (Indian Space Research Organization, NASA’s mission partner, who launched Nisar). Learn more about Nisar Mission Hub. Although our team is studying Mars, the Earth is also a planet, and we are very happy to launch our successful colleagues!
In Mars, the winter and the subject of every layout remains how to maximize the science that we can do given the increasing energy needs of Rovrena heating at this time of the year. Curiosity exceeds the top of the main hills, nicknamed “Autobahn”. It turns out that it is not smooth as the most named name for the earth, as you can see in the image above. To reach this parking site, our Rover drivers decided to transfer a small vehicle to the Skatq area and backup on the hills for safe off -road driving. Placing parking in Rover is beautiful views around us, which puts the land of hollow and hills completely to plan our next steps and enjoy the Sharp Mountain in the distance.
We stand tall on the hills, we have received many investigations into the hills -constituting materials in today’s plan. APXS, Maahli, and Chemcam are all cooperating to investigate the “Salto” goal. This is the goal that can make us a glimpse into the shape of the central line that works along the large hills. If you look closely at the pictures, there are accurate differences in color and texture, and we are all curious, whether it translates into chemical differences as well.
Of course, it is not a matter of chemistry. MastCam is busy documenting a small hill, context with the veins and hollows surrounding it, in the target “lllalalaco”. The target “Centerio De Tortugas” will capture sandy ripples inside the pelvic area, there is an extension of the photography of the work area in a plan for more context of notes today, and finally the Ridge intersection arouses attention in the target “Villa Abecia”. Of course, MASTCAM did not forget the documents of Chemcam “El Salto” and AEGIS’s goal of the last plan. Talking about Chemcam: It uses its photography capabilities to document the hills side to give more precise details of the sedimentary structures of the “lllalalaco” goal.
Notes in the atmosphere are also higher attention at this time of today. We continue to monitor us in the atmosphere by searching for dust demons as well as towards clouds in joint monitoring with the cassette tool, which is on the orbit of the gas in the European Space Agency. In addition, the curiosity continues to monitor the wind and temperature throughout the plan, and the DAN (dynamic whiteness of neutrons) is noted the rocks below the Rover for the water content.
After completing the notes on the current parking site, curiosity will lead to the hills again, but this time to stay inside the hollow, so that we can make notes on the material that forms that hollow. Let’s see whether we can find any chemical differences between those substances that may explain the long and long -standing causes of their staple wandering. If you want to have a better impression of what I am talking about when I say the hills and pelvis, take a look at the last mobility mosaic.