Exploring Mt Sharp north of the dunes - Part 2: Beyond Big Sky, Site 50-51, sol 1148-1171, October 29, 2015-November 23, 2015 |
Exploring Mt Sharp north of the dunes - Part 2: Beyond Big Sky, Site 50-51, sol 1148-1171, October 29, 2015-November 23, 2015 |
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A drive on sol 1148 - looks like we are near the southern bend of Cut Bank Valley. This perspective view of a hazcam image is the only visual cue I have so far of its location. It looks along the west-running branch of the valley and its southern side.
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Mission Update from Ryan Anderson - Sol 1165: Uplink Problems LINK
QUOTE Unfortunately, our plans for the weekend were thwarted by a problem with the Deep Space Network that prevented the plans from being sent to the rover. As someone on the team pointed out in response to the issue, this just goes to show how many steps in the process have to go just right for us to be able to operate a rover on Mars, and it’s pretty impressive that these sorts of issues are as rare as they are. Given its lack of instructions, Curiosity spent the weekend in “runout” mode. Runout mode mostly consists of environmental monitoring. Since the weekend plan was not uplinked, much of today’s plan contains repeats of what we tried to do over the weekend. In the sol 1166 plan, ChemCam has observations of the targets “Zaris” and “Swakop”, and Mastcam has a 5x4 mosaic of “Swakop” and its surroundings. Then we have a block of arm activities to allow MAHLI to take some images of the targets “Swartkloofberg” and “Swakop”. This will be followed by brushing the dust off of Swartkloofberg, taking some more MAHLI images, and then placing APXS on Swartkloofberg to analyze it overnight. Meanwhile, this week is the ChemCam team meeting here at USGS in Flagstaff! Since much of the team will be busy with the meeting, ChemCam activities this week will be kept to just two or three per day. The meeting also means that Ken, Lauren, and I will be extra busy this week so we won’t be blogging every day even though operations will be happening daily.
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A couple postcard views now that we've got a big NavCam dump.
![]() Curiosity - Sol 1160 by Justin Cowart, on Flickr ![]() Curiosity - Sol 1162 by Justin Cowart, on Flickr Kind of working my way backwards through the NavCam images. Sol 1158 looks like it will make a great postcard since it's got a spectacular view of Cut Bank Valley. |
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