Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, written by Lucy Lim
Prithvi Plan date: Friday, March 21, 2025
It is the beginning of spring here in the Northern Hemisphere on Earth, but our rover in Gayle Crater on Mars is still going into the depth of Martian winter. We are only a few weeks away from the kidnapping of Mars – the time when it is the farthest from the Sun. The distance of Mars-Sun is more vary than the distance of the Earth-Sun due to the greater eccentricity of the orchardies of Mars, and its effect on the Martian weather is equally more important.
As my colleague mentions in the previous blog post, the layered sulfate bedock in this area is broken into large blocks that often make driving difficult. In the SOL 4486 scheme, the drive went very well, however, about 35 meters (about 115 ft) south and upwards curiosity. Our new workspace is one of the “light-tond” strips, which can be seen in orbital imagination and is filled with the specific light-tonded laminated blocks of what we have seen in this geological unit.
We were also able to use the rover arm for another plan in one line, the rover was not always given in this area – due to the park in a stable position! This enabled us to plan a pair of measurement of the structure by APX by APXS by APXS, which after removing the dust, after removing the dust, to assess the effects of omnipresent dust on both bedrak composition and equipment at other places where the rock cannot be brushed. Our other creative measurement equipment, Libs, were also recruited for co-target measurements on the Sankranti Valley.
The second veneer measurement and a palace observation appear between a specific, potential diagonal, all light-tonded workspace blocks, a small brown patch that looks like a vein or coating in images available in the scheme (“black oak”). Planned observation will give us in great detail to both its composition and morphology.
A long-range RMI Imaging Mosaic plan was to plan to examine some lines on a west side so far. Laqirs may be evidence of the same type of diagenic activity that produce boxwork structures that are the next major science goals for curiosity. A passive spectral raze was also planned for a possible boxwork area. As we will not be able to go into every possible boxwork on Aolis Mons, long distance views such as these can understand us how widespread the boxwork activity can be.
Mastkam imaging included a hammock sedimentary feature (“Pino Alto”) and the documentation of the texture in some follow-up and nearby local bedocks (“Pidra Blanca”) as well as documentation imagery for two LIBS goals.
Finally, the modern Martian atmosphere was investigated by the measurement by Apxs and Chemcam inactive imagers, respectively to track the abundance of argon and oxygen, as they vary with the Martian season.
