Curiosity update: Contact science on ‘Spring Point’

Sol 1632-33, March 7, 2017, update by USGS scientist Ken Herkenhoff: The MSL rover drove a little over 40 meters on Sol 1630, to a place with bedrock blocks surrounded by dark sand.  There’s a bright block with parallel linear features in the arm workspace, so the tactical team decided to plan contact science on those features.  This made for an exciting day for me as MAHLI/MARDI uplink lead!  The MAHLI image through the closed dust cover that was planned for Sol 1630 was successfully acquired, so we’re planning to acquire a similar image of the APXS target “Spring Point” on Sol 1632.  MAHLI diagnostic images of its calibration target and more drill diagnostic tests are… [More at link]