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Earth planning date: Monday, June 9, 2025<\/p>\n
The image above shows the drill poised on the surface of Mars at the start of our attempt to collect sample at \u201cAltadena\u201d over the weekend. Now we know, from subsequent imaging and telemetry, that the drill activity was successful, allowing planning today to focus on delivering sample powder to CheMin and SAM. CheMin and SAM will give us their distinct and valuable insights into the mineralogy (CheMin) and volatiles and organic compounds (SAM) within Altadena, which are key to our continued unravelling the history of Mt. Sharp. It is always exciting to find out what each of these instruments uncovers from Martian samples.<\/p>\n
In addition to those sample deliveries, we had three other Altadena-focused activities. We acquired ChemCam RMI of the drill hole which helps ChemCam refine their laser targeting for future LIBS analyses of the drill hole. We planned a ChemCam passive spectroscopy observation of the cuttings around the drill hole for more insight into the mineralogy of the sample. We also included a single Mastcam M100 image of the drill hole which helps us track the wind activity at the drill site and thus the stability of the cuttings ahead of planned observations with APXS and MAHLI.<\/p>\n
The weekend activities ran faster and more efficiently than modeled so that we had power to add additional science observations into the plan. We gathered more ChemCam data from the bedrock near Altadena at the target \u201cBolsa Chica,\u201d and planned two ChemCam RMI long distance mosaics on sedimentary structures within \u201cTexoli\u201d butte and nearby boxwork structures. We kept track of the environment around us with yet more Mastcam imaging for wind-induced changes in the \u201cCamp Williams\u201d area, regular RAD and REMS measurements, two DAN measurements, and Navcam dust devil imaging and cloud movies.<\/p>\n
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