Curiosity update: Martian fruit salad

Sol 1747, July 5, 2017, update by MSL scientist Scott Guzewich: As is typical for Curiosity lately, today we planned a “touch-and-go” suite of activities for the rover. Today I served as the Science Operations Working Group Chair. A high level of charge in Curiosity’s batteries after the long holiday weekend allowed us to prepare a bounty of science observations. The first activity was contact science, a mix of APXS and MAHLI, on a target named “Appledore” which is believed to be Murray bedrock much like we’ve examined before. This was followed by a Navcam survey for dust devils on the slopes of Mt. Sharp and then ChemCam targets on “Sugar_Plum” and “Whortleberry”, the later of… [More at link]