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Sol 3303: Selfie at the Zechstein sample site in Gale crater
This panorama combines 81 exposures taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the Sol 3303 of Curiosity's work on Mars (November 20, 2021)
We’re taking our last measurements at our Zechstein drill hole this weekend. This involves contact science on the drill tailings (the pile of powder surrounding the hole in the image above) with APXS and MAHLI. We’ll also shoot the wall of the drill hole with ChemCam LIBS to measure the geochemistry in the hole and how it changes with depth. Once we wrap that up, we’ll start driving toward our next science stop closer to the edge of the Greenheugh Pediment.
Overnight on Sunday, SAM will prepare to perform an experiment over the Thanksgiving holiday. We’ve been carrying a rock sample around in SAM for over 3 years! Over the long holiday weekend, SAM will finally perform a thorough analysis of this sample.
Written by Scott Guzewich
Other panoramas of Mars by Curiosity rover:
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The planet Earth has proven to be too limiting for our awesome community of panorama photographers. We're getting an increasing number of submissions that depict locations either not on Earth (like Mars, the Moon, and Outer Space in general) or do not realistically represent a geographic location on Earth (either because they have too many special effects or are computer generated) and hence don't strictly qualify for our Panoramic World project.But many of these panoramas are extremely beautiful or popular of both.So, in order to accommodate our esteemed photographers and the huge audience that they attract to 360Cities with their panoramas, we've created a new section (we call it an "area") called "Out of this World" for panoramas like these.Don't let the fact that these panoramas are being placed at the Earth's South Pole fool you - we had to put them somewhere in order not to interfere with our Panoramic World.Welcome aboard on a journey "Out of this World".
