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 27 2012, 09:13 PM
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Pic from todays briefing: http://i.imgur.com/76icp.jpg
Just wow. edit: on the site now: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4569 |
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Aug 28 2012, 02:00 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 866 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 196 |
beautiful! it would seem that MAHLI doc at section 6.1 example picture of the Chinle Formation is now seeming quite prescient indeed given the scenery were already seeing! |
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Aug 28 2012, 06:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 153 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Phoenix, AZ USA Member No.: 9 |
...it would seem that MAHLI doc at section 6.1 example picture of the Chinle Formation is now seeming quite prescient indeed given the scenery were already seeing! Doh! That is a shot from my dissertation area, a place called The Tepees, in Petrified Forest National Park. I could go on for pages, of course, but the colorful striped strata there record the incision of a fluvial system and subsequent backfill by high sinuosity point bar and overbank deposits. The red horizon is a relatively mature paleosol that marks the final fill and overtopping of the incisional topography. If Curiosity finds these types of deposits, I'm quitting my job and going on Mars time! -------------------- Tim Demko
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