Sols 953-955: Dumping Telegraph Peak

Our sol 952 drive went well, and we’re very close to
crossing over into a new “quad” of the map that was made before landing
(meaning we will get a whole new bunch of target names to choose from!). On
Saturday the team planned for a lengthy ChemCam focus test on sol 953, where we
collect images of the target “Eaton Canyon” at different times of day to check
the influence of temperature. We also planned a nice big 20×2 Mastcam mosaic of
“Mount Saint Mary”. On sol 954, we delivered some of the “Telegraph Peak” drill
sample that we have been carrying with us to the SAM instrument, and dumped the
rest out on the ground to be analyzed by APXS overnight.

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