Curiosity Sols 4908-4912: Goodbye Campo Marte

Drilling kept the rover in place for a while, and our 47th successful drill, "Campo Marte," was no exception. The team used that downtime to run many observations. Having served three times as Science Operations Working Group chair while we were here, I find this a real goodbye as Curiosity drives onward toward the next area up Mount Sharp.

CheMin was run to collect mineralogical data and SAM inspected volatile releases, while ChemCam, APXS, MAHLI and Mastcam documented the drill hole, drill fines and the overall amount of sample available. ChemCam also performed a precise targeting exercise on millimeter-scale layers at the adjacent spots "Corcovado" and "Junakas" about 3 meters away to test whether those laminations differ chemically.

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