Curiosity update: Driving up to the Naukluft Plateau

Sol 1273-74 March 4, 2016, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: We are planning only 2 sols today because tactical operations will transition to nominal next week (working all 5 weekdays). On Sol 1273, Mastcam will acquire a multispectral image of the contact between the Murray and Stimson geologic units.  This set of images, taken using all of the Mastcam filters, will be acquired just after noon, when the illumination of the contact should be better than in previous images.  Then ChemCam and Mastcam will observe bedrock targets “Kleinberg” and “Tumas 2″ and Mastcam will acquire a stereo mosaic of a low ridge southwest of the rover.  Later in the afternoon, the arm will go to work doing contact science… [More at link]