[meteorite-list] Mars Rover Opportunity Update: Aug 28 - Sep 3, 2013

[Ron Baalke]

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html#opportunity

OPPORTUNITY UPDATE:  Investigating 'Coal Island' Rock Outcrop - 
sols 3411-3417, Aug. 28, 2013-Sep. 03, 2013:

Opportunity is at the base of 'Solander Point' on the rim of Endeavour
Crater. The rover is investigating a scarp (rock outcrop), called 'Coal
Island.'

On Sol 3412 (Aug. 29, 2013), Opportunity approached a surface target,
with a 180-degree turn-in-place, followed by a 6-foot (1.7-meter) bump
to place a target of interest within reach of the robotic arm
instruments. The rover began a survey of the scarp with multi-spectral
Panoramic Camera (Pancam) imaging. On Sol 3415 (Sept. 1, 2013), the
rover used the robotic arm to collect a Microscopic Imager (MI) mosaic
of the surface target, called 'Dibbler' and place the Alpha Particle
X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) on the target for multi-sol integration.
Opportunity continued the multi-spectral imaging survey of the scarp
with more Pancam images over three sols.

As of Sol 3416 (Sept. 2, 2013), the solar array energy production was
365 watt-hours with an atmospheric opacity (Tau) of 0.640 and a solar
array dust factor of 0.522.

Total odometry is 23.77 miles (38.26 kilometers).