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Written by Natalie Moore, Mission Operations Specialist at Malin Space Science Systems<\/p>\n
Earth planning date: Wednesday, April 9, 2025<\/p>\n
Our drive from Monday\u2019s plan was mostly successful, putting us ~22 meters down the \u201croad\u201d out of an expected 30 meters. A steering command halted the drive a little short when we tried to turn-in-place but instead turned into a rock, which also had the effect of making our position too unstable for arm activities. Oh well! APXS data has been showing the recent terrain as being pretty similar in composition, so the team isn\u2019t complaining about trying again after another drive. Plus, keeping the arm stowed should give us a little more power to play with in the coming sols (an ongoing struggle this Martian winter).<\/p>\n
Recently, my job on Mastcam has been to make sure our science imaging is as concurrent as possible with required rover activities. This strategy helps save rover awake time, AKA power consumption. Today we did a pretty good job with this, only increasing the total awake time by ~2 minutes even though we planned 52 images! Our imaging today included a mosaic of the \u201cDevil\u2019s Gate\u201d ridge including some nodular bedrock and distant \u201cTorote Bowl,\u201d a mosaic of a close-by vein network named \u201cMoonstone Beach,\u201d and several sandy troughs surrounding the bedrock blocks we see here.\u00a0<\/p>\n
ChemCam is planning a LIBS raster on a vertical vein in our workspace named \u201cJackrabbit Flat,\u201d and a distant RMI mosaic of \u201cCondor Peak\u201d (a butte to the north we\u2019re losing view of). Our drive will happen in the 1400 hour on the first sol, hopefully landing us successfully 53 meters further into this new valley on our way to the boxwork structures to the west! Post-drive, we\u2019re including a test of a \u201cPost Traverse Autonav Terrain Observation\u201d AKA PoTATO \u2013 an easy drop-in activity for ground analysis of a rover-built navigation map of our new terrain. Plus we get to say PoTATO a lot.<\/p>\n
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