Sol 3411: Bonanza

After significant churn in Monday’s planning, today turned out to be a single sol’s worth of untargeted science. That left GEO with only a ChemCam AEGIS activity, where ChemCam automatically identifies and targets an interesting rock near the rover by itself. ENV than planned a bonanza of atmospheric monitoring activities, as we had power to spare. This included 7 dust devil movies with 4 different cameras: Mastcam, Navcam, and the front and rear Hazcams. This image shows the broad viewshed we have to the north from our current location on the Greenheugh Pediment, which provides good opportunities for dust devil searches. Let’s hope Mars accommodates tomorrow!

ENV also planned a ChemCam passive sky to study the abundances of atmospheric gases, a Mastcam sky survey to study the properties of airborne dust particles, and early morning Navcam cloud movies. Needless to say, such a bumper crop of atmospheric image sequences in a single plan is unusual and maybe unprecedented!