Steve Squyres

7:30 AM: Cloudless morning. This is the time to take the "presidential" pan. We're going to try to do this a bit differently from the initial pan, aiming high enough to get all the mountains in.

Last night there was a storm and flash flood that almost washed the generators away and blew the canopy halfway to the playa.

10:22 AM: We've started the pan. We set up the rover and the cart in the same geometry that we started with on the first day and put the drilled rocks back in the ground, so we can take pictures of them. This is going to be a big panorama nine tiers high. We're doing it by using direct commands rather than doing it through WITS. This should only take us about three hours, which means we should be able to do some driving this afternoon.

2:05 PM: Just finished this pan. We took another cal target image, and now we're taking a full navcam pan to get range. We're getting ready to put repeater stations up on the ridgetops.

7:45 PM: A great afternoon. We put repeater stations for the rover telemetry on the two highest hilltops, and then Lisa as a human repeater station on top of the ridge to relay the walkie-talkie traffic. We set up on the hillside east of the breakout channel, and commanded a four-waypoint traverse on a heading of about 310. Hazard avoidance was great, and we covered a total of 94 meters. We even hot-swapped the batteries while the rover was moving. And tonight we're taking Moessbauer on 22-1.