Tuesday August 14th Sol 9

Barack Obama talked to the JPL engineering team yesterday and everyone else watched a video link of this.  He said that if any evidence that there had been microbial life on Mars were found then it would go to the top of his agenda.  

Some high resolution MastCam panoramas are becoming widely available now.  You can see one at:

http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2#0.00,0.00,110.0

Wee using images like this to understand the region around the landing site and make plans for Curiosity.