Sol 4553: Back to Boxwork!

A grancale picture of the Martian area in front of the Curiosity Rover shows very bumpy, uneven ground with large, multi -friendly classes of rock on the surface separated by the gaose in the soil. The bumpy region and a smooth patches are fine that all look shiny. Parts of the rover are shown under the frame, which is running from the middle left edge to the lower right corner of the image, including part of its robotic arm, which mentioned in white, all-novel letters

NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity achieved this image of its field in the “boxwork” area, which shows features like resistant, ridge, where it will examine the goals called “Sisquoch River” and “Palo Varde Mountains”. Curiosity acquired the image using his left navigation camera of Mars Science Laboratory Mission on 27 May, 2025 – Sol 4552, or Martian Day 4,552 – 08:38:12 on UTC.

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Lucy Thompson at New Breanswick University, written by Planetary Geologist

Prithvi Plan Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2005

We return to the plan today after a successful long weekend and about 42 meters drive distance (about 138 feet). We planned four activities on Friday to keep the curiosity busy, while the US -based science team and engineers took time out yesterday for the Memorial Day holiday. As we met to praise the new workpiece and drive direction scene in front of the rover this morning, I realized that now we have climbed more than 35 kilometers (about 22 miles) (about 22 mi) (about 22 miles) after descending about 13 years ago, and we recently tamper with the new area.

The so -called boxwork structures are a series of resistant lines seen from orbit and long -range rover imaging (see the blog of ashley) both. Not only are the lines of interest (do they indicate enlarged fluid and cementation?), But in general the expression of outflow changed, when we went into a shallow trough on the rocks hosting lines.

The scheme will continue the characterization of interesting boxwork terrain. We today had an example of facility like a more resistant, ridge in our field (see with image). The composition of the ridge will be examined using Chemcam (target “Sisquoc River”) and APXS (target “Palo Varde Mountains”), including Mastcam and Mahali images. We will acquire mastakam imaging of a trough-like feature around a bedock slab, such as our ongoing documentation of such structures (“lake catchuma”). And for the first time for our mission, we are planning the longest distance camcam remote imaging mosaic, which we would have received-91 kilometers (about 57 mi) away! The intention is to compare long distance views from the ground with the Higher -Orbital Image in an attempt to create a 3D view. We also managed to squeeze a Navkam large dust-e-shawal survey before the employed 24-meter drive (about 79 feet). Once we reach our new place, the Mardi will take an image of the area under the rover.

The plan has been scored with standard rams, dan and red activities.