Curiosity update: when Mars gives you lemons, calibrate your instruments

Sol 1707-08, May 25, 2017, update by MSL scientist Michael Battalio: After a 14.6 m drive, the GEO group decided against arm activities due to a lack of compelling targets and in deference to making the next drive longer. Thusly, GEO science activities relied on Mastcam and ChemCam. On Sol 1707, ChemCam will capture a raster of the “White Cap Mountain” bedrock target (the white bedrock left of center in the bottom quarter of the above Navcam image), as well as a patch of dark undisturbed soil called “French Hill Pond.” Mastcam will document all of the ChemCam targets and will image “Googings Ledge” (the large, darker bedrock just above and right of image center) and “The Twinnies” (the shadowed bedrock exposure cut off on the far left), which are sedimentary members of the Murray formation, and… [More at link]