{"id":786571,"date":"2024-07-30T12:31:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T17:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=786571"},"modified":"2024-07-30T12:31:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T17:31:51","slug":"sols-4259-4260-kings-canyon-go-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=786571","title":{"rendered":"Sols 4259-4260: Kings Canyon Go Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\" hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-secondary-navigation\">\n<div class=\"hds-secondary-navigation-wrapper z-top width-100 padding-0\">\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-secondary-navigation width-full border-bottom-1px text-center hds-color-mode-dark hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-hdsnav\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"hds-secondary-nav-mobile-button display-flex tablet:display-flex desktop:display-none width-full flex-align-center bg-carbon-90 border-color-carbon-80 color-spacesuit-white\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"hds-secondary-nav-track\"><span>Curiosity Navigation<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"hds-secondary-nav-track grid-container grid-container-extrawide padding-0 tablet:padding-x-3 desktop:padding-x-2 \">\n<div class=\"hds-secondary-navigation-menu-items\">\n<nav>\n<ul class=\"usa-nav__primary usa-accordion flex-justify-center margin-0\">\n<li class=\"usa-nav__primary-item\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"usa-accordion__button usa-nav__link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"basic-nav-section-one\"><span>Curiosity Home<\/span><\/button>\n<ul id=\"basic-nav-section-one\" class=\"usa-nav__submenu\">\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Mission Overview<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Where is Curiosity?<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Mission Updates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__primary-item\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"usa-accordion__button usa-nav__link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"basic-nav-section-one\"><span>Science<\/span><\/button>\n<ul id=\"basic-nav-section-one\" class=\"usa-nav__submenu\">\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Overview<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Instruments<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Highlights<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Exploration Goals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__primary-item \">News and Features<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__primary-item\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"usa-accordion__button usa-nav__link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"basic-nav-section-one\"><span>Multimedia<\/span><\/button>\n<ul id=\"basic-nav-section-one\" class=\"usa-nav__submenu\">\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Curiosity Raw Images<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Images<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Videos<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Audio<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">More Resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__primary-item\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"usa-accordion__button usa-nav__link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"basic-nav-section-one\"><span>Mars Missions<\/span><\/button>\n<ul id=\"basic-nav-section-one\" class=\"usa-nav__submenu\">\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Mars Sample Return<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Mars Perseverance Rover<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Mars Curiosity Rover<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">MAVEN<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Mars Odyssey<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">More Mars Missions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__primary-item\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"usa-accordion__button usa-nav__link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"basic-nav-section-one\"><span>The Solar System<\/span><\/button>\n<ul id=\"basic-nav-section-one\" class=\"usa-nav__submenu\">\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">The Sun<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Mercury<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Venus<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Earth<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">The Moon<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Mars<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Jupiter<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Saturn<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Uranus<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Neptune<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Pluto &#038; Dwarf Planets<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">Asteroids, Comets &#038; Meteors<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">The Kuiper Belt<\/li>\n<li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \">The Oort Cloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"padding-top-5 padding-bottom-3 width-full maxw-full hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-article-intro\">\n<div class=\"width-full maxw-full article-header\">\n<div class=\"margin-bottom-2 width-full maxw-full\">\n<p class=\"label carbon-60 margin-0 margin-bottom-3 padding-0\">3 min read<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"display-48 margin-bottom-2\">Sols 4259-4260: Kings Canyon Go Again!<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-fit \"><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">MAHLI image of the brushed \u201cKings Canyon\u201d target<\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earth planning date: Monday, July 29, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Our weekend drill preload test on the target \u201cKings Canyon\u201d (shown in the\u00a0accompanying MAHLI image) didn\u2019t give us the full range of data we need to move forward with the full drilling process. This coming Wednesday, we hope to rerun our preload test on Kings Canyon or somewhere very similar on the same bedrock, and to get APXS and ChemCam analyses in order to determine scientific suitability for drilling. As a result, this plan focused on getting the arm ready to fulfill those diagnostic activities, described by our Science Operations Team Chief\u00a0Elena in last Friday\u2019s blog.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we are in such an interesting area that we have a very long liens list (our wish list). Our problem today and probably for the foreseeable future will be a good one \u2013 trying to keep below our upper limits on how much of that wish list we are going to try to get in on a given day!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We have recently seen examples of bedrock slabs or outcrops with a flat, paler toned centre and a rim of darker, greyer material which surrounds the main slab. We saw\u00a0this about 50 sols ago at the Mammoth Lakes\u00a0drill site and we see it here too. The relationships between the centre of the slab and the rim are very intriguing and we are keen to understand the interplay between the two textures. Mastcam will take two large mosaics in this area. \u201cSam Mack Meadow\u201d is a 7\u00d74 mosaic (i.e., 4 rows of 7 images) on an area of crushed grey material, and \u201cMerced Grove\u201d is a 7\u00d76 mosaic on more intact rim material. ChemCam have also planned a LIBS analysis of Merced Grove and one at \u201cClinch Pass\u201d in the centre of the block. Together these activities will help us to look at relationships here and to compare with previous examples, such as at the Mammoth Lakes drill site.<\/p>\n<p>ChemCam will acquire a passive measurement on \u201cWilts Col,\u201d a small dark toned float rock about 4 metres away from the rover as part of a continuing campaign to assess the nature of the floats (loose rocks) which are strewn around this part of the crater. ChemCam will also acquire 2 RMI (long distance images) 10\u00d71 mosaics, looking at the stratigraphy and layering of the distant hills \u2013 getting a head start on the science assessment before we even get close!<\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere and environment science theme group (ENV) also crammed their section of the plan full of activities. Since landing (almost 12 years ago now!!), the ENV group has been reporting on environmental conditions in Gale, and this plan was no exception. We have some regular DAN passives, REMS activities and a Navcam dust devil movie, and a single Mastcam \u201cTau\u201d measurement, which looks at dust in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Catherine O\u2019Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"nasa-gb-align-full width-full maxw-full padding-x-3 padding-y-0 article_a hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-credits-and-details\">\n<section class=\"padding-x-0 padding-top-5 padding-bottom-2 desktop:padding-top-7 desktop:padding-bottom-9\">\n<div class=\"grid-row grid-container maxw-widescreen padding-0\">\n<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-2 padding-right-4 margin-bottom-5 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n<div class=\"padding-top-3 border-top-1px border-color-carbon-black\">\n<div class=\"margin-bottom-2\">\n<h2 class=\"heading-14\">Share<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"padding-bottom-2\">\n<ul class=\"social-icons social-icons-round\">\n<li class=\"social-icon 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Discover valuable content designed to inform, educate, and inspire,\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1122\" src=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/27262-pia25681-web.webp?w=1200\" class=\"attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"hds-topic-card hds-cover-wrapper cover-hover-zoom bg-carbon-black\">\n<div class=\"skrim-overlay skrim-overlay-dark skrim-left mobile-skrim-top padding-3 display-flex flex-align-end flex-justify-start z-200\">\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"hds-topic-card-heading heading-29 color-spacesuit-white line-height-sm margin-top-0 margin-bottom-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Rover Basics<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p class=\"margin-bottom-0 margin-top-2 color-carbon-20-important\">Each robotic explorer sent to the Red Planet has its own unique capabilities driven by science. Many attributes of a\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1197\" height=\"1499\" src=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mars-perseverance-si1-0045-0670932474-015ecm-n0031416srlc07021-000085j-e1720460405906.png?w=1197\" class=\"attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"hds-topic-card hds-cover-wrapper cover-hover-zoom bg-carbon-black\">\n<div class=\"skrim-overlay skrim-overlay-dark skrim-left mobile-skrim-top padding-3 display-flex flex-align-end flex-justify-start z-200\">\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"hds-topic-card-heading heading-29 color-spacesuit-white line-height-sm margin-top-0 margin-bottom-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Mars Exploration: Science Goals<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p class=\"margin-bottom-0 margin-top-2 color-carbon-20-important\">The key to understanding the past, present or future potential for life on Mars can be found in NASA\u2019s four\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" src=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Color-enhanced_view_of_Jezero_crater_on_Mars.jpeg?w=1536\" class=\"attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blogs\/sols-4259-4260-kings-canyon-go-again\/?rand=772114\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? 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