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Hi, I’m Jessica Samuels, member of the engineering
operations team and this is your Curiosity

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rover update.

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Last week, we completed our second round of
vehicle health checkouts.

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This was primarily targeted on the robotic
arm and the hardware at the end of the robotic

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arm called the turret.

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This included different instruments and the
sample processing hardware and sample acquisitioning

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hardware.

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Our arm checkout activity was in preparation
for our first contact science.

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This is an exciting time for the robotic arm
team and the mission as a whole as we will

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do our first placement of an instrument on
a target called “Jake Matijevic.”

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Our target was named specifically for our
surface operations team chief engineer, who

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unfortunately passed shortly after landing.

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The target Matijevic has been selected to
cross calibrate two of our instruments on

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the rover.

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The alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, which
resides on the end of the robotic arm, and

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the ChemCam instrument, which resides on top
of the remote sensing mast.

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Recently we completed a Mastcam panorama of
a ridge, which will give us a great vantage

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point of the Glenelg target area.

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A few sols ago we completed a interesting
campaign where we actually acquired images

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of the Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, transiting
across the sun.

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So that is your Curiosity rover update.