In Scots Gaelic, “deoch-an-doris” loosely means “one for the road.” Today we planned one more set of investigations on the fascinating Feorachas outcrop before we leave it behind forever.
We first visited it over a month ago as we were climbing up the Greenheugh Pediment and now we have given it a more thorough investigation on the way down thanks to some crafty driving by Curiosity’s rover planners in this craggy terrain.
You can see our old rover tracks extending off into the distance in this Navcam image. Feorachas is the large block extending out of the sand in the lower right.
Today’s plan includes contact science on three targets, including “Up Helley” (near the circular scoop taken out of the upper left portion of Feorachas), and a variety of remote sensing science with ChemCam LIBS and Mastcam multispectral imaging.
ChemCam LIBS and Mastcam multispectral imaging are complementary ways to understand the chemistry of the rocks we encounter on Mars.
As we’re also in the dusty season on Mars, Curiosity will take two dust devil movies and measure the amount of dust in the atmosphere above us and within Gale Crater.
Related Links
Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory
Mars News and Information at MarsDaily.com
Lunar Dreams and more
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Sol 3436: Motion Accomplished
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2022
There was good news when we came in for planning today – our remote mast recovery and all our other activities completed successfully, including the drive.
Today I took on the role of “Supratactical Uplink Lead,” and in that role I primarily worked to sketch out what our upcoming plans will look like. I was able to plan for new activities now that we successfully drove away from our prior workspace. Curiosity is now parked at a workspace we partially explored previously on sol 3417, which gave us … read more