According to NASA, Today’s plan covered 3 sols, 5060, 5061, and 5062, as we take a few recharging sols before getting back to our normal drilling activities.
In the full text published on its website, NASA wrote: “As you may know if you have been following the blog closely, we are in the middle of a drilling campaign on our target called ‘Nazca.’ We’ve already drilled the hole, characterized the tailings from the drill hole with ChemCam, and have now done several sample dropoffs, both to our SAM and CheMin instruments within the belly of the rover. We still have a number of activities left to do as part of the campaign, including another dropoff to SAM for a different kind of analysis, and drilling cleanup activities. One of those activities is called ‘RAGE’ (Rotate to Agitate for Granule Expulsion, a very fun acronym) where we essentially shake the drill to get any remaining sample out of it. We’ll also make sure to take lots of imaging to continue document the drill hole and tailings.
“In any case, those activities are very power-hungry for our rover! … Each of our three sols had a standard morning science block, with an extra exciting brand-new activity on 5061 (more on that shortly!).
“Over the three sols, we conducted remote science with ChemCam active and Remote Micro-Imager mosaics on some interesting targets (‘Titicaca,’ ‘Pampas,’ and ‘Salta’), some Mastcam imaging of our calibration target and our drill target, several Navcam dust devil studies and Mastcam tau observations, and twilight imaging.”
