Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University
Earth Planning Date: Wednsday, May 21, 2025
Monday’s Single-Sol Plan Included A Marathon 45-Meter Drive (About 148 Feet), which put us in position for two full sols of imaging. This means both sols have what we call âtargetedâ Science blocks, in which we have images of the workspace down from the last plan and can carefully choose what to take a closer look at. This Always means a lot of good discussion amongst the geology and mineralogy theme group (geo) about what deserves this closer look. As an outsider on the environmental theme group (env), I don’t give allways grassp the complexities of these discusations, but it’s always interesting to of mount sharp.
Geo Ended Up Picking “Big Bear Lake” as our contact science target, which is getting its typical treatment from apxs and mahli, as well as a libs observation from Chemcam. Aside from that there was planty of Room for remote sensing. Chemcam is also taking a Libs observation of “Volcan Mountains” and a long-distance mosaic of the texoli butte. Mastcam is also taking mosaics of a nearby trough, as well as two depressions know as “Sulphur spring,” a More Distant Boxwork Structure, and the Vry Distant Mistant MisTE MOKWA WOTTE.
All of Env’s Activities are remote sensing, and we managed to squeeze in a few of that that! We have a couple dust monitoring observations, looking for dust devils and checking the Amount of dust in the atmosphere. And Since We’re Still in the cloud season we always try to make room for cloud observations. Today that meant a suphorizon movie looking for clouds just about above the south, and a phase function sky survey, which captures clouds clouds all around the rover, to trystand how to these clouds scatter Sunlight.
