{"id":789000,"date":"2024-09-13T18:11:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T23:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=789000"},"modified":"2024-09-13T18:11:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T23:11:52","slug":"sols-4304-4006-12-years-42-drill-holes-and-now-1-million-chemcam-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=789000","title":{"rendered":"Sols 4304-4006: 12 Years, 42 Drill Holes, and Now\u2026 1 Million ChemCam Shots!"},"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\">5 min read<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"display-48 margin-bottom-2\">Sols 4304-4006: 12 Years, 42 Drill Holes, and Now\u2026 1 Million ChemCam Shots!<\/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\">In celebration of ChemCam\u2019s milestone, here is a stunning image from its remote micro imager, showing details in the landscape far away.\u00a0This image was taken by Chemistry &#038; Camera (ChemCam) onboard NASA\u2019s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4302 \u2014 Martian day 4,302 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission \u2014 on Sept. 12, 2024, at 09:20:51 UTC.<\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 13, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Today, I need to talk about ChemCam, our laser and imaging instrument on the top of Curiosity\u2019s mast. It one of the instruments in the \u201chead\u201d that gives Curiosity that cute look as if it were looking around tilting its head down to the rocks at the rover\u2019s wheels. On Monday, 19th\u00a0August the ChemCam team at CNES in France planned the 1 millionth shot and Curiosity executed it on the target Royce Lake on sol 4281 on Mars. Even as an Earth scientist used to really big numbers, this is a huge number that took me a while to fully comprehend. 1 000 000 shots! Congratulations, ChemCam, our champion for getting chemistry from a distance \u2013 and high-resolution images, too. If you are now curious how Curiosity\u2019s ChemCam instrument works, here is the NASA fact sheet. And, of course, the team is celebrating, which is expressed by those two press releases, one from CNES in France and one from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the two institutions who collaborated to develop and build ChemCam and are now running the instrument for over 12 years! And the PI, Dr Nina Lanza from Los Alamos informs me that the first milestone \u2013 10000 shots was reached as early as Sol 42, which was the sol the DAN instrument used its active mode for the first time. But before I am getting melancholic, let\u2019s talk about today\u2019s plan!<\/p>\n<p>The drive ended fairly high up in the terrain, and that means we see a lot of the interesting features in the channel and generally around us. So, we are on a spot a human hiker would probably put the backpack down, take the water bottle out and sit down with a snack to enjoy the view from a nice high point in the landscape. Well, no such pleasures for Curiosity \u2013 and I am pretty sure sugar, which we humans love so much, wouldn\u2019t be appreciated by rover gears anyway. So, let\u2019s just take in the views! And that keeps Mastcam busy taking full advantage of our current vantage point. We have a terrain with lots of variety in front of us, blocks, boulders, flatter areas and the walls are layered, beautiful geology. Overall there are 11 Mastcam observations in the plan adding up to just about 100 individual frames, not counting those taken in the context of atmospheric observations, which are of course also in the plan. The biggest mosaics are on the targets \u201cWestern Deposit,\u201d \u201cBalloon Dome,\u201d and \u201cCoral Meadow.\u201d Some smaller documentation images are on the targets \u201cWales Lake,\u201d \u201cGnat Meadow,\u201d and \u201cPig Chute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ChemCam didn\u2019t have long to dwell on its milestone, as it\u2019s busy again today. Of course, it will join Mastcam in taking advantage of our vantage point, taking three remote micro imager images on the landscape around us. LIBS chemistry investigations are targeting \u201cWales Lake,\u201d \u201cGnat Meadow,\u201d and \u201cPig Chute.\u201d APXS is investigating two targets, \u201cCollege Rock\u201d and \u201cWales Lake,\u201d which will also come with MAHLI documentation. With all those investigations together, we\u2019ll be able to document the chemistry of many targets around us. There is such a rich variety of dark and light toned rocks, and with so much variety everywhere, it\u2019s hard to choose and the team is excited about the three targeted sols \u2026 and planning over 4 hours of science over the weekend!<\/p>\n<p>The next drive is planned to go to an area where there is a step in the landscape. Geologists love those steps as they give insights into the layers below the immediate surface. If you have read the word \u2018outcrop\u2019 here, then that\u2019s what that means: access to below the surface. But there are also other interesting features in the area, hence we will certainly have an interesting workspace to look at! But getting there will not be easy as the terrain is very complex, so we cannot do it in just one drive. I think there is a rule of thumb here: the more excited the geo-team gets, the more skills our drivers need. Geologists just love rocks, but of course, no one likes driving offroad in a really rocky terrain \u2013 no roads on Mars. And right now, our excellent engineers have an extra complication to think about: they need to take extra care where and how to park so Curiosity can actually communicate with Earth. Why? Well, we are in a canyon, and those of you liking to hike, know what canyons mean for cell phone signals\u2026 yes, there isn\u2019t much coverage, and that\u2019s the same for Curiosity\u2019s antenna. This new NASA video has more information and insights into the planning room, too! So, we\u2019ll drive halfway to where we want to be but I am sure there will be interesting targets in the new workspace, the area is just so, so complex, fascinating and rich!<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s after Mars for you, after 12 years, 42 drill holes, and now 1 Million ChemCam shots. Go Curiosity go!!!<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Susanne Schwenzer, Planetary Geologist at The Open University<\/em><\/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 social-icon-x\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-icon social-icon-facebook\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-icon social-icon-linkedin\">\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-icon 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Exploring<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"heading-36 line-height-sm\">Discover More Topics From NASA<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-row grid-gap-2 hds-topic-cards-wrapper\">\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<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p class=\"margin-bottom-0 margin-top-2 color-carbon-20-important\">Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, and the seventh largest. It\u2019s the only planet we know of inhabited\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\/04\/272_MarsInSight_poster-jpg.webp?w=1536\" 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>All Mars Resources<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p class=\"margin-bottom-0 margin-top-2 color-carbon-20-important\">Explore this collection of Mars images, videos, resources, PDFs, and toolkits. 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\/blog\/sols-4304-4006-12-years-42-drill-holes-and-now-1-million-chemcam-shots\/?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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