Mark Adler

State from Sol 14:

• The rover successfully executed all 120 commands in 90 minutes and 17 seconds. The rover health is good, and all functionality is available. Engineering has requested science support in recalibrating the front Hazcam range for possible future precision arm operations. Spectra requested on UHF were erroneously received on DTE—they will be ignored until UHF time. One of the front Hazcam images was corrupted, possibly due to heat. Fortunately we have a good front Hazcam pair from yestersol, and the rover has not moved. A high fidelity analysis has shown that we can RAT any of the four targets from yestersol.
• The heat problem on the Hazcam will be checked with Hazcams on this Sol. This may result in an interesting caution, which is that there may some risk in depending on even Sol Hazcams for odd Sol planning, since operations on even Sols are at a higher temperature.

Sol 15 is an Remote Sensing Sol, with possible IDD:

• Beginning of SOWG mini-TES requests: Bonne Flat, Bob, Dweezel Bottom, Barsoom Bottom, Diamond Point, sky 30° el N. Also determined at the start of the SOWG: if we RAT, then we will do it on arm target 9, the target that all instruments accessed yestersol. This information was requested by the test director to give the human RAT advance warning. Objective is extensive remote sensing, and then time permitting, a RAT and IDD activity arm target 9.

Sequence Development:

• The priority is remote sensing characterization of the section on the cliffs. Other remote sensing and physical properties through RATting are second priority. After possible RAT, we would want to do a CMI, and a short APXS on DTE, then a long APXS and MB. The mission manager asked the SOWG Chair if we could only do a RAT and front Hazcam, should we? Answer is yes—that would show physical properties.
• The requested observations were well prepared by the theme groups before before sequence integration (except for note below). This initial request wins the award for the most busted in FIDO time. Many IPS points at 2000 coadds was the driver. The IDD/RAT activity was deleted. The Moon observation was deleted. The sky survey was deleted. Many IPS points were deleted. Most non-section remote sensing was deleted. Due to the loss of the Moon in a few sols, the Moon observation was reinserted in place of the lowest priority remote sensing target, but only with a single Navcam image. A Dolomite calibrate was added, and one IPS scan was trimmed. Several of the supporting Hazcam images were moved to DTE, just because we could.
• It was discovered that highest priority Pancams of Barsoom/Dwezel were not built by the theme group. We built them on the spot.
• With no traverse and no articulation this is a very safe sequence. Time was spent carefully reviewing the targets and science priorities with some adjustments to those. FIDO time was filled to within 25 seconds, the DTE was filled with Navcam imagery. The UHF was significantly undersubscribed. There is no backlog of data to fill in the UHF. (FIDO is constrained mostly by field time. That combined with the high priority placed on spectroscopy results in the UHF undersubscription.) The mission manager requested duplicating the UHF data as well as the normal duplication of the DTE data on UHF.
• The uplink was approved with 14 minutes to go.

Sol 16 Considerations:

• Use the Hazcam pairs from the start and end of the sequence to check the heat theory for yestersol's image corruption.
• Get rolling!

Comments:

• It is important for the theme groups to sequence their requested observations, and in particular they should sequence their highest priority observations first. On this Sol, the highest priority Pancam was not sequenced, but the second and third were.
• Given extra time during sequence development, it is worthwhile to review the science priorities as well as to review, in sequence order, the visualizations of the image and remote spectroscopy requests.

Special Notes:

• Starting on Sol 16 and on all subsequent sols, the afternoon sol will begin at 12:15 PM with all subsequent events shifting later by 15 minutes.

Updated sequence development schedule starting at 0900 and 1415:

• 70 minute Sequence Design
• 10 minute Sequence Validation
• 10 minute Sequence Approval

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