Curiosity rover reaches Uyuni Quad, starts new Mars mapping and surface analysis campaign

NASA’s Curiosity Rover has recently launched a new chapter in his journey on Mars after entering “Uyuni” quadrilateral, which is 1.5 km by a 1.5 km map grid with a name after the city’s largest salt flats. The infection by the Rover is the infection after carrying out about 48-meters of drives from the Altadena drill site. With new geology and an extended set of experiments, the journey of curiosity through this region has the ability to return fresh comments in ancient environmental conditions of Mars.

Curiosity discovered Mars’s Uyuni Quad, started a new study of rock layers, craters and ancient climate

According to a mission Update From Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist, Uuni Quad infection is important at the USGS Astrogiology Science Center. Each Mangal quadrilateral is placed with 100,000 people in the name of the location of the Earth and is attracted to regional geology for target naming. Uyuni and nearby Atakama sites – Mars is known for analog research and extreme environment – will now lend its name for the characteristics discovered in this phase. The current SOL scheme includes a mixture of contact science, visual imaging and movement, which are ready to understand the bedock composition and surface processes in this dry area of ​​Mount Sharp.

The rover’s robotic arm will deploy its APXS and Mahli tools to study a nodeular bedock target called “Flemingo”. Remote sensing includes the mastcam mosaic of “Los Patos”, a possible effect pit, and “la lava”, a dark rock. These paintings will document the sediment transport facilities and inform the upcoming LIBS firing of the chest on a bedock spot called “tacos”. A long distance RMI of “Mishhe Mokwa” Batta will analyze mosaic and more sedimentary layers.

After science block, Curiosity About 56 meters will travel south-west and collect post-drive imagery to inform the next Sol plan. The next day will be dedicated to calibration and environmental monitoring activities through Mastcam and Navkam, especially focused on dust and cloud movement in the martian environment.

Researchers are curious to study what these structures can explain the previous Martian climate as the team works towards large boxwork exposure. The Uyuni quad will bring the distant world together through a common geological story using names and structures based on our own geology brothers on Earth.