Curiosity update: ‘Happy New (Earth) Year!’

Sol 860-861, January 5, 2015, update from USGS Scientist Ryan Anderson: “Happy New (Earth) Year! After the long holiday plans, the Curiosity team is back to planning two days at a time. The main priority for the sol 860 plan is to use MAHLI to take close-up color images of the targets ‘Sierra Nevada,’ Santa Ana,’ and ‘Tecoya.’ These targets were analyzed by APXS over the holidays, so it’s important to get good images to go with the chemistry. For sol 861, ChemCam will…” [More at link]