Curiosity update: Smooth sailing

Sol 1436, August 19, 2016, update by USGS scientist Ryan Anderson: We are making good progress with our drives (we’re already approaching our next drill site!) and the road in front of us is looking pretty smooth. As usual we have a busy weekend planned. Sol 1436 starts off with ChemCam and Mastcam of the layered rock targets “Conda” and “Savungo”. Mastcam then has a mosaic of one of the buttes, and another mosaic of an interesting feature within the Murray formation called “Chitado”. Later in the day, MAHLI will take a look at the targets “Biula” and “Conda”. Then Curiosity will brush the dust off of Conda and do an overnight APXS measurement. CheMin will also do another analysis of Marimba2 overnight. [More at link]