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23 March 2017
Sol 1646: Traction control driving
Curiosity drove a little over 20 meters on Sol 1645, toward the big sand dune to the east that is the subject of a science campaign that will hopefully start next week.
Sol 1645: Searching for dust devils
An excellent example of two different instruments working together to improve our understanding of the meteorology of Gale Crater and dust lifting processes on Mars as Curiosity traverses up Mount Sharp.
21 March 2017
Sol 1644: Staying put
The Sol 1644 plan for Curiosity focuses on arm activities, because the volume of data expected to be relayed via the MRO and Mars Odyssey orbiters in time for planning tomorrow is too small to allow both a drive and drill diagnostic tests. So the tactical science team took advantage of the opportunity for contact science by planning APXS and MAHLI observations of bedrock targets named “The Hop” and “The Horns.” …
Sol 1640-1642: Better Late than Never!
The weekend plan started with some Navcam atmospheric observations, followed by ChemCam on the bedrock target “Big Moose Mountain.”
20 March 2017
Sol 1643: First half of long-baseline stereo
Curiosity drove about 28 meters toward the south on Sol 1642 and again is in an area with Murray Formation bedrock blocks surrounded by dark sand.
16 March 2017
Sol 1639: Onward to Ogunquit Beach
Curiosity has been at Stop 3 of the dune campaign (now known as “Southern Cove”) for a couple of sols, so in today’s plan it’s time to move on.
15 March 2017
Sol 1638: Busy Day for MAHLI
Today we are continuing our investigation of Stop #3 of the Bagnold Dune campaign. We start off with some MAHLI images of the APXS targets “Ripogenus” and “Spragueville” from yesterday.
14 March 2017
Sol 1637: Stop 3
Yesterday’s short drive was successful, so we started today with the rover parked at stop #3 of the dune campaign and the rover’s arm up in the “ready out” position.
13 March 2017
Sol 1636: Another Early Morning
Thankfully I wasn’t actually on duty today, because with daylight savings time Arizona is now on West-coast time, and planning started at 6:30am! In any case, the weekend plan was successful, and put us close to the third stop of the current campaign to study the Bagnold Dunes.
10 March 2017
Sols 1634-1635: Back to nominal MAHLI planning
Curiosity drove about 29 meters toward the south on Sol 1632, and is in a good position for weekend activities.
