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[Tesheiner]

After a drive on sol 619, Spirit has finally reached the true summit of Husband Hill, almost touching the summit rock.

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[alan]

New update
http://athena.cornell.edu/news/mubss/

The big news, I guess, is that we've decided where we're going to go next. We've been studying possible descent routes for a couple of weeks now, and we've settled on one, at least for the first part of the descent.
Extending eastward from the summit of Husband Hill is a broad ridge that we've named Haskin Ridge. It trends ENE from the summit, does a little dog-leg to the right, and then trends ESE for a bit. Right at the dog-leg there's a pretty steep step, which we're not certain we can get down. So we're going to descend the upper portion of the ridge, right to where the step is, and assess the situation. If we can see a safe route, then we'll continue down onto the lower portion of Haskin Ridge. If not, then we'll think about what to do next! But either way, we should get a good view of the East Basin, which is something of a mystery at the moment. And we all think our chances of finding a way down that step are pretty good.
If we can get down onto the lower part of the ridge, we'll eventually hang a hard right turn and head south, toward Home Plate, crossing some interesting-looking terraces and passing just to the east of a dark patch of sand as we do. But that's for the future. Right now our focus is upper Haskin Ridge, and whatever the view is going to be from the top of that step.