Curiosity Blog, Sols 4611-4613: Scenic Overlook

Written by Lucy Lim, planetary scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center de la NASA

Earth planning date: Friday July 25, 2025

A 23 -meter journey (about 75 feet) brought curiosity to the planned spot today. The highest point of the plan will be the 360 -degree mastcam panorama that will document the topography of the crest and the curances of the boxwork training unit that we have explored, in addition to covering the stratigraphy in some of the nearby buttons. The right -angle peak motif is quite important in Hrise orbital imaging, which has allowed us to plan this judgment. This has been 70 floors since the last panorama, and the rover led a certain distance at that time!

Additional detailed imaging has been planned with the remote imagery Fire Fire (RMI) and the High Resolution M100 Mastcam: the mosaics will cover the strata exposed under the ridge that we plan to drive (“Arequipa airport”), two linear fractures, a parallel with the large ridge and a rosa rump “, a little through a little saline” and “Laguna Rosa”, a little around the saline “and the Laguna Rosa), a little around a saline” floating block in light tones (“arubai”) and Uyuni Butte in the middle.

The texture of the rocky substratum here has been a notable change compared to the previous workspace, with a new -oriented texture interspersed occasionally with platier exhibitions. Geochemical measures have been planned with the Chemcam lib to complete the measurement of AEGIS post-process automatically targeted: “COCA” on a block that seemed to show unusual colors, and “El Algodón” on a piece of textured nouton base. APX geochemistry was planned with the elimination of dust on the Nouton target “Yura Tuff” and without elimination of dust on the “Tipnis” target. Mahli will also provide close imaging on the two APX targets.

For the modern Martian environment, it is always the cloudy season in Gale, we therefore plan several activities related to the cloud. The Mastcam Sky survey will measure the abundance of atmospheric dust and water ice, while a special cloud altitude observation will include a video of the clouds and their shadows so that the altitudes and the speeds of the clouds and the related winds can be calculated. A separate short film will seek the dust lifting activity (devil). Finally, passive and usual observations will monitor the temperature, humidity and the neutrons environment at the current location of curiosity.