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 by Scott Guzewich | Atmospheric Scientist - NASA/GSFC Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 11, 2022
After significant churn in Monday's planning, today turned out to be a single sol's worth of untargeted science. That left GEO with only a ChemCam AEGIS activity, where ChemCam automatically identifies and targets an interesting rock near the rover by itself. ENV than planned a bonanza of atmospheric monitoring activities, as we had power to spare. This included 7 dust devil movies with 4 different cameras: Mastcam, Navcam, and the front and rear Hazcams. This image shows the broad viewshed we have to the north from our current location on the Greenheugh Pediment, which provides good opportunities for dust devil searches. Let's hope Mars accommodates tomorrow! ENV also planned a ChemCam passive sky to study the abundances of atmospheric gases, a Mastcam sky survey to study the properties of airborne dust particles, and early morning Navcam cloud movies. Needless to say, such a bumper crop of atmospheric image sequences in a single plan is unusual and maybe unprecedented!
Moving right along - slowly but surely during Sols 3409-3410 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 10, 2022 We are continuing to slowly move through this very challenging terrain - over the weekend we made it about 4 meters before the drive stopped when the rover sensed more difficulty. The attached image shows the deeper rover tracks over the undulating and rocky terrain, which has given us so much trouble driving and making it frequently unsafe to unstow the arm. Despite all the challenges, this was a very exciting day for the MSL team. In honor of international Women's day (3/8/22) we fielded a team ... read more
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