Written by Debora Padgate, OPGS Task Lead in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Prithvi Plan Date: Friday, April 25, 2025
On Sols 4520 and 4521, curiosity was about to study layered rocks in your field, then drive. Unfortunately, a communication pass was not required, preventing the plan from being sent. Our rover is fine, but it metatically has been “twelding its thumb” that is waiting for the contact of Wednesday expected with the Earth. It is a process known as “runout”, which occurs when the Earth fails to call a spacecraft at the time appointed. The communication stations are now back, so the team gathered a weekend plan made from Wednesday’s postponed activities and an additional day after the drive an additional day of science comments. The additional two days before the plan execution allowed our science team to add another interesting goal to contact science at the initial place.
On SOL 4522, the curiosity will begin science observation with a mastcam 14 x 3 mosaic on the new target “Messa Peak”, a flat-topped, layered outcrop is named for a mountain in Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California, covered with a mountain, which is covered with Sandstone Pinakals and the channel Islands is a cosmic view of the National Park. This will then be done after two mastkam examinations of the trough to document the evidence of differential ground motion. Chemcam will then brighten your laser on the “Fan Palm” noduler rock to determine its surface structure. Its telescopic RMI camera will then give a “Torot Bowl” image. After a set of REMS comments, curiosity will ignore its arm and start a detailed study of the “Hell Telescope”, which is a finely layered stone with a target name honoring the 200-inch telescope (5.1 m) on the Palomer Mountain in the north-east of San Diego.
Despite being close to 80 years, the Hell Telescope of the Palomer Observatory still enables world -class astronomy and its fellow organizations to compete with the teams of Caltech to compete every year. Here, 5,500 feet “on the roof of the top” (thanks, Carol King!) Is the place of Southern California where I spent some of my happiest time in graduate school.
Curiosity’s hand will first deploy APXS to touch the “Hell Telescope”. Then, the Mahli microscopic imager will take the extreme close-up of this rock and neighbor “Cero Alto” target. Finally, the APXS will measure the structure of the “Hell Telescope” in a two -hour -long measurement, which is the same as the required exposure time for the actual 200 -inch telescope, which to measure the raidsfs of the quaslers, determines that they were located at cosmological distances. Sol 4522 finishes his arm with curiosity in preparation for the next sool drive.
At 4523, curiosity will demonstrate the Mastkam Mosaic of “Puerto Sulo” and “Potero Seko”, as well as an aesis-selected target from the camcam target “Fan Palm” fellow observation and Sol 4919. Butt. Mastcam will follow the “laser zap” of “Messa Peak” followed by a “after” with a picture. Science block ends with a Navcam 360-degree Dust-Dewil survey. Later, the curiosity will drive about 20 meters (about 66 ft), passes near or near some large rocks, followed by post-drive imaging with Hazcams, Navakam and Mastkam. Later, the Rover Age will observe and take a mardi picture of the ground under the rover.
On SOL 4524, the science block will focus on the atmosphere with a super horizontal cloud movie, a dust-decay survey and the mastakam dust opkar observation. The goal selected by the aergis will also be a laser spectroscopy.
The morning of SOL 4525 will wake up to take a dawn-pest mosaic of “boxwork” structures in the west with curiosity navcam, then Navcam to Suprahorizon and Zenith Cloud films turn to the sky and turn to the sky and a dust in the Gayle Creater. Mastkam will then observe its own dust, which will wrap the plan. If the team finds that the wheels of curiosity are firmly seated on the martian soil and not on the rocks, then our rover will again contact science on a new set of rocks and will continue its journey towards boxwork formation.
