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Mastcam will take a multispectral image of Breamish. ChemCam will analyze it a second time. The plan on Sol 2829 starts with some follow up observations.
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Curiosity is making good progress on the way to "Bloodstone Hill" The plan is to drive around the large sand patch and then make our way up to the hill, hopefully sometime next weekend. Weekends provide the opportunity to do full contact science, including use of the DRT, MAHLI, and APXS.
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Some of the rock taken from inside the drill hole will be fed to the rover’s CheMin instrument on sol 2758. The X-ray diffraction patterns that CheMin acquires will tell us what minerals are present in the rock. That important data, in combination with Curiosity’s other instrument investigations, will help us untangle the complex history of how this outcrop formed.
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ChemCam will be observing two targets on nodular bedrock, “Polwarth” and “Rob Roy Way”. A number of Mastcam images and mosaics are planned, including a large mosaic of a trough feature that continues the coverage from a mosaic in the previous plan.
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Navcam will acquire some images over one the communication passes in the plan. The ability to use the engineering cameras over a pass means Curiosity can execute two activities - communicating and taking engineering images - in parallel rather than in series. This would leave more time and power for science observations or driving.
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To kick off the science block, Mastcam will take a 53-frame stereo mosaic pointed at the fractured intermediate unit to the southeast. Next, ChemCam will shoot its laser at the target “Bishop’s Palace” which exposes some nice small-scale layering and possible diagenetic features.
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despite the closest human geologist being over 186 million kilometers (115 million miles) away, our curious little robotic geologist has all the tools necessary to do a similar assessment on Mars. Since JPL decided to not send a good fashioned pencil and field notebook to Mars, we'll store our data in the onboard computer and then transmit it to Earth. That way those ever curious human geologists can "get their hands dirty'
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The first sol of today’s two-sol plan is devoted to drilling. On the second sol, the drilling activities are accompanied by MAHLI and Mastcam documentation images. The second sol is packed with remote sensing activities.
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Schlumberger Ltd SLB has supported a total of 863 women to pursue PhDs and post-doctoral research in STEM disciplines at leading universities and research institutions outside their home countries. Mr Ernest Rubondo, the ED Petroleum Authority of Uganda said since its inception in 2004 the SLB Faculty for the Future programme has benefitted eight63 women.
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I'm working second shift today; my tactical operations role is Science Uplink Representative. The early part of the MSL mission, called the Characterization Activity Phase, has been planned and tested in detail. As long as the mission continues to proceed nominally, no changes to the sequences will be needed, and the uplink planning process will primarily involve modeling the planned activities.
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