Curiosity update: Keep on truckin’

Sol 1414-16, July 27, 2016, update from USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: MSL drove over 45 meters on Sol 1412, to a location with lots of bedrock exposed but most of it is coated by dust.  So again we decided not to deploy the arm and acquire lots of ChemCam data instead.  LIBS observations of targets named “Okahandja,” “Swakopmund,” and “Walvis Bay” will be followed by another long-distance RMI mosaic.  Then the Right Mastcam will image the ChemCam targets and acquire a 5-image mosaic of…  [More at link]