21st October 2013 Sol 429

We are now just a few more sols from the second waypoint.  We have driven around the margin of a likely impact crater, on the left of the image, that has been eroded by the wind and partly buried by sand and dust. 

Unlike the MER rover missions we havent identified any meteorites that might be associated with such impacts. They will be here – becasue it is an ancient surface that has had time to accumulate meteorites – but the scattering of Gale’s dark rocks on the surface, like the samples we saw at Rocknest from sol 67, make identifying dark meteorites in amongst them more difficult.