Journey to Mt Sharp - Part 3A: In-situ science at the Kimberley, Sol 596 [Apr 10,'14] to 633 [May 18, '14] Options

[elakdawalla]

As Curiosity has completed walking the Kimberley outcrop and the science team has decided to go in for some in-situ work that could lead to our first drilled sample since Yellowknife Bay a year ago, I thought it was time to split to a new thread. Keep using the previous thread for the work up to sol 596, which includes numerous Mastcam panoramas of the initial survey of the Kimberley that will probably take many weeks to downlink completely; I figure splitting it here will help us keep the active mission separate from the lagging arrival of data from that survey.

A few links for housekeeping purposes:
Curiosity got the first good look at the north edge of the Kimberley on sol 572 - route map
Curiosity drove 'round the northeast corner (Mount Joseph) to sight the east side of the Kimberley on sol 589 - route map

[Dig]

Navcams Left/Right Sol 597





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[Phil Stooke]

Very nice - here's a circular version.

Phil

[anticitizen2]

Driving up to Remarkable on 597 in Nav - I like the side view of the small rock ridge


Here is the approach from the Haz's perspective

[Ant103]

Sol 597 Navcam pans. Impossible to put them together, a little move between them.

[serpens]

To the best of my knowledge I have not seen this Chemcam site linked. It provides some tyro friendly and up to date information on findings which could be enlightening as they get stuck into the Kimberley sandstones.

http://www.msl-chemcam.com/index.php


ADMIN EDIT: Link amended.
This and other useful links can be found in the MSL FAQs
If anyone has others, please let an admin know and we can add it.

[jvandriel]

Mt Remarkable in Stereo on Sol 597.

Jan van Driel

[charborob]

Sol 597 mastcam 34 pan:

[Phil Stooke]

With a bit of fuddle-duddling it's possible to fit Damia's two pans together after reprojection, to create a reasonable facsimile of a full circular pan of the place.

Phil

[PaulH51]

The latest report from Ken Herkenhoff's was posted today at the USGS news portal LINK . It address his role in planning and the activities for sols 598 thru 600... The activities ended with a short drive to a new location for further contact science this week. We have been receiving a steady supply of backlog images in recent sols, but nothing from 598 thru 600. Maybe another incident similar to 'the set of commands sent to the rover for Sol 596 were not received' LINK?

[Phil Stooke]

Looks like the DRT was used on sol 601 (or at least the picture was taken on 601)

EDIT - Wrong! That is dust blasted away by ChemCam. I've made the same mistake before, about sol 485ish.

http://www.midnightplanets.com/web/MSL/ima...06C00_DXXX.html

Phil

[jmknapp]

The rock they brushed in ML image sol 597:



It's above the TY in Curiosity.

[cswift]

These and other images from Sol 585 show a blurry gray area with a clearly defined border between layers of the outcrop imaged at the north of the Kimberley.

Not the lens flare on the left, it's visible at the back of the crevice starting at the far right where light is visible from the other side.


From above, the same blurry feature is partially visible at the edge of the upper face of the outcrop.


The effect looks strange to me and I haven't seen examples of this phenomena on any of the rover missions. I'd be interested to hear if others had more information or plausible ideas about this.

[wildespace]

The "before" and "after" images from Mastcam Left (Sol 597) and MAHLI (Sol 601) of the dust removal activity.



(These are raw images, and it's interesting to note the colour difference between ML and MAHLI.)

[mcaplinger]

The effect looks strange to me and I haven't seen examples of this phenomena on any of the rover missions.

I don't actually see what you're talking about, but these are focus-merged products and any poor focus areas are probably either from inadequate range in the original Z-stack or from glitches in the focus-merging algorithm.