12th July 2013 Sol 332

Operations week at Toulouse is coming to an end and is switching back to the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.  In Toulouse the opeations centre is housed by the French Space Agency CNES.   During the week as we exit Yellowknife Bay, we have been taking lots of ChemCam rasters and RMI images to go with the analyses.   The more laser shots we get the better are our analytical statistics as we piece together the mineral compositions.

It takes a team to make ChemCam function efficiently, in addition to the science theme group members and leads the Toulouse team have staff to check that each of the ChemCam plans uploaded to Curiosity is compatible with sunsafety, preserving the laser and that the distance between the mast and the target is less than 7 m.  Every downlinked ChemCam file is also checked  by a designated team member and a short report prepared.