17th February 2014 Sol 545

As we approach a full martian year (669 sols) we have travelled about 5 km.  There is fine tuning to be done on the route to get us relatively quickly to the clay and iron oxide concentrations in Mt. Sharp, but try and minimise wear on the wheels. 

The Opportunity Rover has travelled over 35 km since its landing in January 2004, so we have some way to go before we catch up with that record.  The nominal mission for MSL is about 1 martian year, but just as MER Opportunity’s was 90 sols, we hope to go on making discoveries for a lot longer than that.