Prithvi Plan Date: Monday 11 August, 2025
Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, written by Lucy Lim
On the Curiosity Team, we are continuing our search for the sector making boxwork in GAIL Crater. A successful 25-meter drive (about 82 feet) brought the rover to a new ridge site from the “Peace Sign” ridge intersection. Today’s plan pursued several imaging checks, including a potentially hollow hollow (“Laguna Minic”) Mastkam observation, and several troughs to check how the fracture infections from Bedrock to Rejolith.
With six wheels on the ground, curiosity was also ready to deploy the rover arm for some contact science. The apxs and mahli measurements were planned to detect local bedocks at two points with a brush (DRT) measure (“Santa Catalina”) and a non-DRT measure (“Puerto Teresa”). A third palace observation will be co-target with one of the LIBS geochemical measurements on the light-toned block, “Palma Seka”. Because we are in nominal soul for this scheme, we were able to plan a second target Libs activity to measure another block before drive, a high-precious feature structure on “Yavari”.
Auto-tortured Libs (AEGIS) that execute the post-drive on SOL 4626, fell on a bedroom target and will be documented in high resolution via masstakam imaging.
Two long-range imaging mosaics were planned for the Chemkam remote imagers (RMI): The lens in the lens in another lens on a possible scarp was exposed to the “Mission Mokwa” in the strateeta above the current state of the rover, and the other on a pre-face-facing boxwork, which could be clearly revealed “
As usual, the modern Martian environment will also be seen with camera measurements of atmospheric opacity, a navcam film to watch dust, and temperature, humidity and normal Rame of Neutron Fluks and Dan Inactive Surveillance in place of Rover.
The next drive is planned to bring us to a location in a hollow, where we hope to plan contact science on a gradually recurrence hollow bedock, in addition to imaging with a good view of rock layers exposed to another major ridge wall.
