Traversing the Clay-Bearing Unit Along the Base of VRR, Site 73-79, sol 2297-2695, 22 Jan 2019-3 Mar 2020 Options

[PaulH51]

I seem to recall an announcement that MRO would be assigned solely to InSight for the initial part of its mission, with other orbiters providing the DSN relay for Curiosity. The most recent image in the MSL JPL image server was acquired on sol 2320, 4 sols ago. Has anyone heard of any communication issues? Also are there any status pages for the Mars orbiters that would provide this sort of detail TIA

[PaulH51]

Sol 2320: Left NavCam post drive partial pan, roughly assembled in MS-ICE. Poorly stitched, but hopefully it will assist in narrowing down the new location

[jvandriel]

The Navcam L view on Sol 2320.

Jan van Driel

[Phil Stooke]

Thanks, Jan. I made a circular version of this panorama to show where we are, after taking the liberty of patching the image to show the tracks behind us where they were partly hidden by the rear antenna.

Phil

[PaulH51]

The lack of images after Curiosity's drive on sol 2320 is explained in this release by NASA/JPL which documents a computer reset.
Link

[PaulH51]

Science activities resume in Gale crater, with ten images from sol 2333 returned by Curiosity, here is a rather nice target imaged with ChemCam's RMI

Edit: Added the mast cam context image, scaled using AlgorimancerPG, apologies for the de-bayer colour
Catch the rest of the images here

[PaulH51]

L-MastCam sol 2320 Workspace, assembled in MS ICE (unprocessed)

[PaulH51]

L-MastCam mosaic: Sol 2320 NNE - ENE and ~200 meters from a possible drill site. Stitched in MS ICE, no additional processing.

[PaulH51]

2338 NLA after a drive of ~24.4m ESE (Midnight Planets) roughly assembled in MS ICE no additional processing, may help identify the location

[jvandriel]

The Navcam L panoramic view on Sol 2338.

Jan van Driel

[Phil Stooke]

Jan's nice new panorama in circular format.

Phil

[PaulH51]

Jan's nice new panorama in circular format.

Looking like Curi is MIA again, today is sol 2344

[jvandriel]

The Mastcam L view on Sol 2312.

126 images Debayered and stitched.
Thanks Sean, Debayering took me now 2-3 hours instead of 2-3 days.

Jan van Driel

[djellison]

Update : https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7339

Updated March 12, 2019, 10:40 a.m. PDT (1:40 p.m EDT): Curiosity experienced a computer reset on its Side-A computer on Wednesday, March 6, 2019 (Sol 2,339), that triggered the rover's safe mode. This was the second computer reset in three weeks; both resets were related to the computer's memory.

The mission team decided to switch from the Side-A computer back to the rover's Side-B computer, which it operated on for most of the mission until November of 2018. Side-B recently experienced its own memory issue; the team has since further diagnosed the matter, reformatting the Side-B computer to isolate areas of "bad" memory. As of today, Curiosity is out of safe mode, and the team is configuring the rover for new science operations in the clay unit. Curiosity is expected to return to science operations as early as Wednesday.

[tanjent]

This sounds at least superficially similar to the events that caused Opportunity to shut down her flash memory. Does Curiosity have the same option if these problems continue?