Nonetheless stuffed and feeling grateful our weekend plans had been profitable! This morning’s downlink confirmed we had extra energy to play with than was modeled final week, this time as a result of SAM actions working conservatively on Sols 3662 and 3663 (Thanksgiving and the day after). From this “energy reward” we had been ready so as to add a complete hour to our distant science time and use our DRT for a full sol of science earlier than persevering with our journey again down into Marker Band valley pre-sunset on Sol 3667.
The primary sol is at all times the busiest on these “restricted” plans, this time as a result of the decisional information wanted for Wednesday planning must be transmitted on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter cross at ~2am on the second sol for us to make use of. Facet dive as a reminder of off-Earth scheduling weirdness… since a Mars sol is ~40 minutes longer than an Earth day, each ~38 Earth days we skip one sol of Mars planning to permit the planets to sync again up and name it a “soliday.”
After every soliday, we’re in a position to get Mars information earlier within the Earth day and have every week or two of “unrestricted” planning earlier than slowly dropping sync with Mars and transitioning again to “restricted” sols as our information arrives on Earth later. Our subsequent soliday is at the moment scheduled for subsequent Thursday, 12/8/22, and till then we’ll be in restricted planning.
Our workforce is aware of benefit from these plans, although; we’re planning two distant science blocks and two arm backbones pre-drive! The primary distant science block will run ~10:50am whereas the arm heats up and comprises solely Mastcam mosaics, however totaling 17 stereo frames on close by targets: 12 frames on fractured bedrock and sand ripples at “Demeni,” 4 frames on massive float block “Tarame,” and a single body on doable layered bedrock at “Ajarani.”
After that the arm ought to be heated and able to mud off some workspace bedrock with our DRT on track “Flecha” for APXS to smell for ~20 minutes. And after APXS is completed gathering alpha-particle and x-ray information for chemical composition of Flecha, our trusty rover planners will transfer the arm out of the way in which for the second distant science block, which begins with ChemCam at ~12:15pm. When we now have a distant science block in between two arm backbones, we wish to hold the arm unstowed for a number of causes together with: higher view of workspace, save goal placement on our rover pc, and plan time effectivity for the reason that arm takes ~5min to stow/unstow.
ChemCam’s two actions in the present day are capturing their LIBS laser at Flecha and passively taking a look at Orinoco to get high-resolution photographs of the Marker Band from our elevated location. Mastcam will end up that block with 22 M34 frames of our near-field environment, 15 stereo frames on Orinoco to go with ChemCam’s Marker Band statement, and a multispectral picture of Flecha (reminder that Mastcam is a low-resolution spectrometer!). At ~13:30pm the arm backbones end up with MAHLI photographs of Flecha from 25cm, 5cm, and 1cm away.
With my MAHLI hat on in the present day, I will additionally point out we’re solely in a position to go all the way down to 1cm for imaging as a result of the arm has super-refined the position of Flecha with our DRT and APXS from the primary arm spine. If the DRT or APXS do not really contact the imaging goal (or if we stow the arm and wipe our goal placement data), the closest MAHLI can plan to picture is 5cm since we do not wish to by accident bump MAHLI into the bottom from an imprecise placement.
Now we have a ~25m drive deliberate to start out ~14:20pm and place us again on prime of the Marker Band which we visited final on Sol 3645. Publish-drive we’ll take our regular Navcam 360 diploma imaging of the brand new location, Mastcam photographs of our new workspace, and our important MARDI picture of the bottom below our left-front wheel!
The second sol of this plan, which we’ll not have information for till post-planning Wednesday, contains primarily environmental instrument actions and ChemCam autonomous LIBS laser photographs of regardless of the rover needs to mini-burn in our workspace. I will be again on Wednesday with my Mastcam hat on able to take extra footage of Marker Band valley and no matter alien options we discover attention-grabbing on this a part of Gale Crater. Cheers to a superb week on Earth!
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Thanksgiving Plan Part Two – Sols 3665-3666
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 23, 2022
Thanksgiving plan half two would after all embody all the normal pleasures we all know – if you’re within the US that’s, if you’re, like me, in Europe then we’ll have to attend a number of extra weeks till Christmas time to have our conventional household gathering, and others once more can have it at a completely totally different time of the yr. Curiosity, although, will have fun all these earthly festivities by getting extra science and discovering out but extra about Mars and Gale crater’s rock report!
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