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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 28, 2023 - Earth planning date: Wednesday July 26, 2023: As in many recent MSL plans, power limited what we could fit into today's 2-sol plan. Why is power so limited? As expected, MSL's plutonium power source
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 04, 2023 - Tactical planning started an hour and a half later than usual this morning, because we had to wait for better-illuminated Navcam images of the Ubajara block (seen at bottom center in this image). Th
Sols 3173-3175: Cleaning CheMin Written by Ken Herkenhoff, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center This image was taken by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3171. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Download image › Late in planning Wednesday the data needed to confirm that it was safe to drop some of the latest drill sample into CheMin were received, so no changes to the Sol 3171-3172 plan were needed. Early this morning, the results of the planned CheMin analysis were received, and the team determined that no further analysis was needed. So the...