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MISSION UPDATES |  November 5, 2019  

Sols 2577-2578: En Route Around Central Butte
Written by Mariah Baker, Planetary Geologist at Johns Hopkins University
 
Today, the team continued our exploration of Central Butte with a two-sol “touch-and-go” plan, which means that the rover will have one sol of contact science at this stop before she continues on her drive around the base of the butte. Early on in planning, there was some discussion about the drive route; ultimately, the team decided to head south to get a closer view of some of the exposed layering within the butte. The northern side of Central Butte can be seen in the Navcam image above.
Today’s plan included time for a short science block before the drive, which the team filled with a ChemCam RMI mosaic of target “Crimond” and a Mastcam mosaic that will provide increased coverage of our drive direction. MAHLI and APXS measurements were also planned for the bedrock target “Pobie Bank,” comprising the “touch” part of this plan. After this science block, the rover will “go” to her next stop, which will bring us a little further up the base of the butte. Standard post-drive imaging using Navcam, Mastcam, and MARDI will round out the first sol and will provide a better look at Wednesday’s workspace. The second sol in the plan contains one untargeted science block, which will include a ChemCam passive measurement, a ChemCam AEGIS observation, and a Mastcam stereo mosaic of the top of the butte. The team also planned a set of environmental observations including REMS and DAN measurements, as well as Mastcam images of the crater rim, a Mastcam sky survey, a Navcam line-of-sight observation, and a Navcam supra horizon movie. This data will help give us a head start on our next plan so that we can use our time to examine Central Butte more closely. In order to accomplish all of our science goals at this location, the rover will make a couple more stops along the side of the butte before continuing along the long-term strategic route.

Pogled na jugozapadnu stranu od Central Butte.
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Sols 2583-2584: Trying Not to Slip
Written by Scott Guzewich, Atmospheric Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center


Over the weekend, Curiosity drove further uphill on Central Butte to examine the complex layering that seems to be present. Today we saw this compelling workspace image from Navcam and quickly decided this location was worth a few days of investigation. However, Curiosity is on a rather steep slope and tilted somewhat, which prevented us from being able to use the dust removal tool in this plan. We’ll use MAHLI and APXS on “Sourhope,” the vertically-oriented rockface in the upper middle portion of this image just below the dark-colored knob. We’ll also use ChemCam on “Sourhope” in addition to “Foggy Moss” and “Hoxa.” The goal is to see if some of the material at the top of the butte (which we can’t directly reach), might have fallen down to this location where we can sample it. On the second sol of today’s plan we’ll take Mastcam images of these targets in addition to the top of the butte, and then search for dust devils and water ice clouds with Navcam.