MARS: CURIOSITY u krateru GALE

Malo ruske šale...

Novih 9,9 m...izgleda mi kao priprema za prelazak na drugu stranu dolin-kanjona. 

selfie...

Znaju vozači često iznenadit, ali  mislim da je ovaj smjer prijelaza ipak najbolji. 

Na putu preko "Fracture town" opet vidimo takozvane "nodule".
O njima nisam vidio nekog objašnjenja, pa čak ni nagađanja.

"Fracture Town" me podjeća na ovo: 

Nedvojbeno je da se ovdje radi o sedimentima.
Što bi moglo biti ovo naznačeno...to ovom prilikom najvjerojatnije nećemo saznati.
Barem ne službeno...

Isplati se probati...Još uvijek se mogu vratiti i pokušati preći drugim smjerom.
Prelazak preko ovakvih duna je uvijek veliki rizik....

Sols 1348-1349: A smoother route

20 May 2016

Our drive on Sol 1346 was successful and brought us to a location with a view of the rugged ridges of the area we’ve been calling “Fracture Town”. In fact, from our current location, we decided that those ridges may be a bit too rough for comfort, so we are planning a slight change in course that will take us a bit south of our original path. The new path should be smoother and will also give us a better view of the contact between the Stimson and Murray units.
But before we set off on this revised path, we have some science to do at our current location! On Sol 1348, ChemCam has observations on the targets “Meob”, “Nomeib”, and “Munutum”. Mastcam will take documentation images of these targets as well as the one observed by ChemCam using AEGIS after our last drive. Mastcam will also observe the targets “Hudoab”, “Witputz”, “Sandamap”, plus a mosaic of Fracture Town. Once the remote sensing is done, we will brush off the target Meob, taking MAHLI images before and after. MAHLI will also take some images of the target Nomeib. That will be followed by a quick APXS observation of Nomeib and an overnight observation on Meob.
On Sol 1349 we have some more targeted science! ChemCam will observe targets “Annental” and “Nainais”, and in addition to documentation images of those targets, Mastcam will also do a multispectral observation of Meob. Navcam has an atmospheric observation as well. After that, the rover will drive and do standard post-drive imaging, plus a ChemCam AEGIS observation and a MARDI image of the ground beneath us.
Even though that is only two sols, it will take us through the weekend, since Saturday is a “soliday” which allows our times to synch back up with Mars time. 
by Ryan Anderson
-Ryan is a planetary scientist at the USGS Astrogeology Science Center and a member of the ChemCam team on MSL.

Sol 1350: Data processing delay

23 May 2016

I'm SOWG Chair again today, and started browsing the latest data from MSL early this morning.  To my dismay, the post-drive images that we expected to receive in time for planning today were not available!  It turned out that the data were received on Earth, but the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter operations team had some problems processing and transferring it to us.  We waited as long as we could for the data needed to plan contact science or mobility activities, then decided that we should plan Sol 1350 without them because planning time is limited by the early uplink window--we have to have the plan ready to send to the rover by this evening.  Fortunately, the images needed to pick remote sensing targets were processed in time to point ChemCam and Mastcam at the outcrop in front of the rover.  Planning targeted remote sensing is much easier than planning contact science or mobility, so the Sol 1350 plan includes ChemCam/Mastcam observations of "Oamites," "Aruab" and "Hosabes" as well as Mastcam images of the Sun and distant crater rim and Navcam searches for clouds and dust devils.  Mastcam will also acquire calibration data at various times of day (temperatures), and CheMin will perform another analysis of the Lubango drill sample.