On Sol 882 Curiositycompleted another full drill hole on Mars.
On Sol 882 Curiosity
completed another full drill hole on Mars.
The target was “Mojave2” and it proved to be much more stable than
“Mojave” (our previous attempt at doing a mini-drill at Mojave resulted in
breaking the rock apart). This time
everything went smoothly and we have a beautiful new drill hole to analyze.
The main activities
in today’s plan are ChemCam, Mastcam and MAHLI observations to characterize the
drill hole and tailings. First we’ll
acquire several ChemCam LIBS observations of the drill tailings to study their
composition. Then we’ll image the drill
hole using all of the Mastcam camera filters.
Overnight, we’ll acquire a number of MAHLI images to characterize the
drill hole and tailings. Looking forward
to learning more about the composition of this interesting target! By Lauren Edgar
–Lauren is a
Research Geologist at the USGS Astrogeology Science Center and a member of MSL
science team. Dates of planned rover activities described in these reports are subject to change due to a variety of factors related to the Martian environment, communication relays and rover status.
Written by Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center
