{"id":783004,"date":"2024-05-28T10:35:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=783004"},"modified":"2024-05-28T10:35:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:35:53","slug":"sols-4195-4198-feels-like-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=783004","title":{"rendered":"Sols 4195-4198: Feels Like Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sols 4195-4198: Feels Like Summer<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Navcam Right image of Fascination Turret to the north from sol 4193<\/div>\n
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Earth planning date: Friday, May 24, 2024<\/p>\n

The first sol of this weekend includes an extremely long, 6-hour DAN activity to measure the amount of hydrogen near the surface, in parallel with a standard midday remote science block including: ChemCam LIBS on a smooth, dark rock named \u201cShadow Lake,\u201d an RMI 7-frame mosaic of the Gediz Vallis ridge base, and two small Mastcam mosaics to document the rock diversity in this area. Since we have so much power to play with, we\u2019re actually staying awake until beginning a custom afternoon Mastcam imaging block to capture the low-sun-angle lighting on Kukenan butte and Milestone Peak ridge in front of us. Should be a butte-iful view.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the second sol, it\u2019s time to stretch the old arm! After another standard midday block with more ChemCam and Mastcam remote sensing, the arm will get ready for a full evening of contact science on the workspace blocks we have reachable. There\u2019s no DRT-able rocks here, so MAHLI has two dusty targets named \u201cSecond Lake\u201d and \u201cJosephine Lake,\u201d the latter of which will include a 5-frame MAHLI mosaic on the dusty layers. APXS finishes off the evening with two integrations on both Josephine Lake and Second Lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The third sol includes one last midday remote sensing block and an hour-long drive, which is proving tricky to plan. There\u2019s sand, spikey rocks, float rocks, you name it we\u2019re driving over it. If we make it all 38.41 meters, we\u2019ll have crossed a major transition in the bedrock and gotten closer to the white stones to the west. I don\u2019t camp much these days, but if I could go anywhere this holiday weekend it\u2019d be where Curiosity is! Except, you know, the radioactive power source\u2026A fourth sol is included this weekend since Curiosity is on a California holiday schedule, but we make it easy on ourselves by using it as a \u201cREMS-only\u201d sol where the only measurements come from REMS (our local Gale weather station). Enjoy the holiday, US-based earthlings!<\/p>\n

Written by Natalie Moore, Mission Operations Specialist at Malin Space Science Systems<\/p>\n

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