Sol 1201-02, December 22, 2015, update from USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: Based on the latest images from Navcam, Hazcam, and Mastcam it looks like at least some of the “Greenhorn” sample was dumped before the arm ran into difficulties.The plan for sol 1201 has a lot of diagnostics to help our engineers to better understand what happened with the arm. It is very likely that the arm hardware is OK, but the diagnostics will allow us to avoid this problem in the future.
In addition to arm diagnostics, we still have science to do in the sol 1201 plan! Mastcam has a 10×2 mosaic to study the fine layers in a nearby outcrop, and ChemCam has a 2×2 “depth profile” observation of the target “Matchless_2”. [More at link]