After yesterday’s check-out, Curiosity is GO to aim to make our thirty seventh drill gap on Mars. The prior plan’s DRT cleaned up our goal Amapari fantastically – it’s in the midst of the clear space within the connected MAHLI picture. As we speak is only a one-sol plan, however it’s a full one!
Earlier than drilling, we have now a brief period of time for imaging. Drilling take a whole lot of time and energy, so we needed to restrict what else we might slot in as we speak. The rover will probably be inspecting a consultant bedrock goal named “Coimin” with Mastcam and ChemCam LIBS.
Mastcam can also be taking a big 16×9 stereo mosaic to the southeast of an space named “Amapa,” whereas ChemCam is taking a 12×1 long-distance RMI mosaic to the north to cowl the inverted channel.
Since drilling requires a whole lot of power, Curiosity will take a nap earlier than continuing. As one of many Rover Planners as we speak, I helped to sequence the arm actions. Drill days are all the time difficult as a result of after we redesigned drilling to maintain the drill bit prolonged, we needed to construct in a whole lot of further sequencing to make it work and do it safely.
This implies it takes our instruments a very long time to simulate it and may make the planning day somewhat longer. As we speak, we start with finding and imaging a goal we are going to want later after we clear the pattern out of the drill.
We choose this goal to be out of the primary a part of the workspace so we can’t dump drill tailings on prime of something fascinating. We then place the drill on Amapari and begin drilling. We’re aiming for a depth of 35mm with a view to get sufficient pattern for the entire CheMin and SAM experiments we wish to do right here.
This will take as much as three hours, relying on how onerous the rock is, and we are able to by no means actually know till we attempt to drill. Different latest drill targets have been comparatively comfortable, and hopefully Amapari will probably be in household. After we full drilling, we are going to take Navcam and Mastcam stereo pictures of the (hopefully) new drill gap after which park the arm in a configuration that’s protected for in a single day.
Earlier than falling asleep for the evening, we may even take a DAN energetic remark.
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Second Time’s the Charm: Sols 3671-3673
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 06, 2022
As occurs sometimes, our earlier plan didn’t execute fairly as anticipated. There was a difficulty with the rover’s avionics in Wednesday’s plan simply earlier than MAHLI was to take pictures of our contact science goal “Roxinho.” This precluded that imaging, the next drive and observations taken from our distant sensing mast. Fortunately our engineering workforce right here at JPL assessed the fault and felt comfy clearing us for nominally planning this morning.
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