Sols 4479-4480: What IS That Lumpy, Bumpy Rock?

Mission Operations in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Written by Engineer Ashley Stroke

Land Planning Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025

When we go on winter, the days are becoming less and cold for curiosity. So our rover is sleeping a little before waking up on a busy project. Today, I served as Engineering Aplink Lead, arranged the engineering party of the plan to support all science activities.

We are watching a lot of stones with different, interesting structures, so the day of curiosity begins with many target imaging in this exciting area. The two stones in front of us (see the picture above) are different from anything we have seen on the mission before, so we are anxious to know what they are. We are also taking pictures of the “Manzana Creek” and “Paulo Komedo”, two of these interesting textile cliffs, and an area called “Vincent Gap”, where Raver bothered some bedrock and exposed some regulators on the plan. The chemical is observing a target called “Strategic Falls”, which is a noodol on our left -handed block in our workplace (on which we are later doing some contact science). The chemicals are also taking RMI image in the direction of the formation of potential boxworks (large veins), which is an area we will find closely in the future. There are also a nuclear dust devil movie and a supermareson movie. Check out the check out These Article From November For more information about boxwork formations.

After a blink, curiosity awakens to join his arm exercise. I do not envy Arm Rover Planner (okay, perhaps a little) in dealing with this very difficult workplace today. The rock of interest (the left -handed rock in the above image) has reduced the rotation, vertical surfaces and many crazy rough structures. It is even more difficult to test this rock because our basic goals are on the left side of the rock rather than the rover aspect. We are seeing two different goals, “Stunt Rank”, which is a nodol on the rock, and is “Pacifico Mountain”, which is the left side of the rock, which is malicious and is also doing a long APXS integration on the stunt field. After the arm work, the curiosity is throwing the arm and hitting itself all night.

The next morning, after sleeping once again in a while, curiosity will make some more target observations, which will begin with another dust survey. The chemical will observe a lace of “Switzer Falls”, which is a target on the right -handed rock of the workpace (and in the syllable), which is a RMI of the “Colbi Valley”, a soft sesame error, and “Gold”, which is another target for box works. Finally, Mastcam took a look at “Puthero John”, and another interesting texture rock.

Curiosity will then be ready to run away. Today’s drive is slightly better regions that we have recently seen, with less and less important stones. However, Mobility Rover planners still have to be careful about choosing the safest way. We’re approaching about 25 meters (about 82 82 feet) another rock target called “Hambar Park”, where we hope extra contact science will do. After the drive, we have the standard set of post -drive imaging, a MastCam solar Tao, and then the New Numkim Cloud observed early in the morning.