Written by Lauren Edgar, the geology of planets at the Usgs Star Center
Earth planning date: Monday, March 24, 2025
If you have seen a geologist in this field, you may have seen a classic position: one leg supported on a rock, bent in the knee, heading down to the rocks at their feet, and indicates the distant class layer. Curiosity today decided to give us the best impression in the field geology. The weekend went well and Rover is about 23 meters (about 75 feet), but it ended with the right front wheel floating on a corner block. In the image of Hazcam above, you can see the right front wheel on a small block, and Rover remained with the mast that stares at all exciting rocks to explore it. Wonderful position, but not what we want to plan to contact science! We would like to get all the six wheels on the ground to settle before the deployment of the automatic arm. So, instead of planning to communicate with science today, the team made a lot of remote sensing notes and another leadership to climb higher in this valley.
I was on a long -term shift today, and it was fun to see the team quickly adapt to the change in the plans. Today’s plan from Sol includes the target dimension and a engine on the first Sol, followed by an unpaid scientific block on the second Sol.
In Sol 4491, Chemcam will get a LIBS note of a well designed bloc in our work space called “Big Narrows”, followed by a long -distance RMI notes coordinated with MASTCAM to evaluate the interesting debris field in “Torote Bowl”. The team plans for the large MASTCAM mosaic to describe the layer in Texoli Butte from the engineering of different display from what we had previously seized. MastCam will also be used to investigate the active surface operations in the near sandy sink, and an interesting breakdown pattern in “Bronson Cave”. Then the curiosity will go to the south and take the filming after driving to prepare for the next plan. In the second Sol, the team added a goal that was selected independently Chemcam aegis, along with NavCAM movies to monitor clouds, wind and dust direction.
Keep the roaming curiosity, and please see your step!