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July 22nd, 2020
Curiosity Left B Navigation Camera image taken on Sol 2829, July 21, 2020.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2830 tasks.
Curiosity Left B Navigation Camera image taken on Sol 2829, July 21, 2020.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Reports Ryan Anderson, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona: “Our weekend observations of the target Breamish showed some interesting chemistry results (which always make our scientists exclaim “O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”)”
Curiosity Left B Navigation Camera image taken on Sol 2829, July 21, 2020.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The plan on Sol 2829 was set to start off with some follow up observations: The robot’s Mastcam will take a multispectral image of Breamish, and its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) will analyze it a second time.
“Mastcam will document the repeat observation of Breamish as well as the autonomously selected ChemCam targets from the weekend,” Anderson adds. Mastcam will also take a mosaic of an interesting cross-bedded block named “Mercat Cross.”
Curiosity Left B Navigation Camera image taken on Sol 2829, July 21, 2020.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Expected drill location
In the afternoon of Sol 2829, the plan called for a short drive or “bump” to an expected drill location called “Mozie Law.”
From that new location, the plan called for collecting the usual post drive images, including a Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) image of the ground beneath the rover and a Mastcam “clast survey” image of the ground nearby.
Curiosity Left B Navigation Camera image taken on Sol 2829, July 21, 2020.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Calibration target
On Sol 2830, the plan tags Curiosity’s ChemCam to analyze two computer-selected rock targets and Navcam will take a look at the rover deck.
Curiosity Front Hazard Avoidance Camera Right B image acquired on Sol 2829, July 21, 2020.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
“Mastcam will look at the Sun to measure the dust in the atmosphere, and the plan will wrap up with a late afternoon ChemCam measurement of the titanium calibration target on the rover to monitor temperature-related changes in the signal,” Anderson reports.
As always, dates of planned rover activities are subject to change due to a variety of factors related to the Martian environment, communication relays and rover status.
Curiosity Chemistry & Camera Remote Micro-Imager (RMI)photo taken on Sol 2829, July 21, 2020.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL
“Breamish” is the rock just above Curiosity’s name plate in this Left Navigation Camera image acquired on Sol 2824.
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