It's now currently 2 and a half hours past midnight of sol 43 at Gale crater. The rover has accumulated a total of 259m of distance travelled as of the end of sol 42. Sol 39 included a 22m drive, sol 40 a 37m one, sol 41 a 27m drive and yesterday included a 32m drive.
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| Navigation camera view lookin towards Glenelg (roughly eastwards), sol 42 (NASA/JPL/mosaic by me) |
The dynamic albedo of neutrons investigation (DAN) instrument has been quite busy these past few sols. As mentioned in the recent mission update:
Along Curiosity's path, DAN shoots neutrons into the ground and measures how they scatter. The instrument has a high sensitivity for finding any hydrogen to a depth of about 20 inches (50 centimeters) directly beneath the rover.
Sol 41 included two acquisition sessions by DAN for 2mins each, one after a 10m drive. This was also done the following sol in the same sequence.
The last drive took the rover east-southeast. I think we are not less than 200m away from our destination by using Google Earth. This is a cautious measurement and should be treated as such but so far I think we are almost halfway there!
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| Approx position on sol 42 (Google) |
In case you haven't seen the first preliminary results of the Phobos transit images from sol 37,
here you go.
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