MSL Post First Drive - Intermission, Start of Drive to Glenelg, Intermission between CAP 1B and 2 - Sols 17 through 29 |
MSL Post First Drive - Intermission, Start of Drive to Glenelg, Intermission between CAP 1B and 2 - Sols 17 through 29 |
Aug 23 2012, 02:39 PM
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Curiosity's Cap 1B phase was completed yesterday with the successful first drive, so now we're going into "Intermission." Dan Limonadi's guest post on the Society blog has great explanations of what all these phases mean.
QUOTE There is an “intermission” that the science team will have between CAP 1B and CAP 2. The intermission will include initial drives away from the landing site, more in-depth ChemCam and Mastcam characterization and science observations, and the first SAM atmospheric science experiment. The total length of this period depends on how long the science team wants to drive before carrying on with sample chain checkout activities. The key flavor difference of intermission is that science is more in the driver’s seat and not trying to squeeze in between higher priority engineering checkout activities that have priority during CAP 1 and 2. Our current plan is to complete a significant fraction of our drive to Glenelg during intermission Keep discussion of sol 9-16 imaging in the relevant thread -- not all of those full-frame Mastcam images are down yet.
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Aug 26 2012, 07:53 AM
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Will the Mastcams still need to be formatted in this way once they reach the PDS, or is it just because of the fact that these are JPEGs?
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Aug 26 2012, 09:21 AM
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I borrowed Fred's excellent rendition to compare with HiRISE anaglyph of the prime science region around the inverted riverbed. It's a very narrow angle of view. If I marked some features wrong, please let me know.
The canyon between "A" and "D" will be epic, if they decide to rove up it. In Matthew Golombek's "Update on Landing Site Characterization" presentation, this canyon's traversability is marked in 4 places as "hasn't been investigated," and marked in 2 places as "small width path, less than 10 meters." Have they determined the traversibility since then, or will it be determined by the rover once it's in the vicinity? I would imagine the long lens in the Mast Cam could get some good shots from the base of the canyon and spot the rough patches. By the way, here's the page from the presentation with the possible routes: |
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