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10 January 2017
Sol 1576: Arm fault
Curiosity planning started 2 hours later than usual today because the Sol 1575 data needed for planning weren’t expected until almost 10 AM PST. Unfortunately, the news was not good: An arm fault prevented the MAHLI full suite from completing, leaving the camera close to the surface with its dust cover open.
9 January 2017
Sol 1575: Investigating Dorr Mountain
After a 25-meter drive on Sol 1574, Curiosity again has bedrock exposed in her arm workspace. To balance desires to sample the composition of the rocks along the traverse and to make good progress toward the south, contact science and another drive are both planned for Sol 1575.
8 January 2017
Sols 1572-1574: New diagnostics
Fortunately, we are able to do everything except drilling while the investigation continues, but the team has decided not to try again to drill at Precipice, and to continue driving up the flank of Aeolis Mons (“Mount Sharp”).
5 January 2017
Sol 1571: Leaving Old Soaker
The arm will be unstowed to allow Navcam and Left Mastcam to take pictures of the area in front of the rover to aid planning for this weekend.
4 January 2017
Sol 1570: Finishing up at Old Soaker
If all of this goes well, we will be ready to drive away from Old Soaker on Sol 1571.
3 January 2017
Sol 1569: Back to daily planning
The activities planned for Curiosity over the holidays executed well, so we are proceeding with the investigation of the ridge/fracture patterns at Old Soaker.
21 December 2016
Sols 1566-1568: Preparing for the holidays
“…we’ll dive right back in to a campaign investigating some interesting fracture patterns at “Old Soaker,” seen in the Mastcam image.”
19 December 2016
Sols 1555-1557: Lots of Targets!
It’s been quite a while since we had a plan with this many new target names!
16 December 2016
Sols 1552-1554: Diagnostics, science, and a drive
The engineering team is still hard at work diagnosing our drill issues, but in the meantime we are still getting good science done. The Sol 1552 plan starts off with ChemCam observations of the targets “Hall Quarry” and “Long Porcupine”. Mastcam will document those targets and then do a multispectral observation of “Western Head”. Mastcam also has an image of the rover deck, and Navcam will watch for dust devils. …
