Earth planning date: Friday, October 6, 2023
Unfortunately the drive we'd hoped to complete on sol 3969 didn't execute due to a well understood issue, so we're going to try again today. The drive will take us just a few meters to the south to reach a rock the team is considering as a possible drill target. In the meantime, we're taking advantage of the fact that we have additional data of this location's workspace from the sol 2968-2969 plan to build on the contact science observations we collected previously in the week. Using the high resolution MAHLI images from Wednesday, our intrepid rover planners were able to figure out how to safely brush the "Helen Lake" target, which we'll be doing in today's plan. We'll collect APXS and additional MAHLI images of Helen Lake after that event, plus MAHLI images of "Heart Lake" and MAHLI and APXS of "Feather Peak."
Curiosity will be doing more than contact science too! We'll continue to document the area around us with Mastcam, collecting a 21x3 M100 mosaic to complement previous coverage of the areas. We'll also take some Mastcam documentation images of three ChemCam LIBS targets named "Black Kaweah," Heart Lake, and "Sonora," and some long distance ChemCam RMI mosaics of the Gale Crater rim and Kukenan butte. Additional environmental science monitoring activities, including observations to image dust in the sky and search for dust devils, will round out the weekend plan.
Written by Abigail Fraeman, Planetary Geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
from NASA Mars Rover Curiosity: Mission Updates https://ift.tt/YohGlpf
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