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Curiosity Blog, Sols 5056-5062: Charging Back Up!

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Briefings

NASA's Curiosity rover completed three recharging sols (Sol 5060-5062) on November 2, 2026, to conserve power before resuming the 'Nazca' drilling campaign. During these sols, the rover performed standard science operations using ChemCam and remote imaging, plus a new engineering test on parallelism between CheMin data transfer and orbit communications. The mission aims to continue analyzing the Nazca crystal formations and nearby bedrock while minimizing power consumption.

Key points

• The rover successfully completed three recharging sols (Sol 5060, 5061, and 5062) on November 2, 2026, to conserve power before resuming the Nazca drilling campaign.
• On Sol 5061, a new engineering test was conducted to verify parallelism between the CheMin 'Get Data' activity and orbit communications, which was deemed successful by the engineering team.

Context

Curiosity is currently in the middle of a drilling campaign targeting the 'Nazca' site, having already drilled a hole, characterized tailings with ChemCam, and performed sample dropoffs. The rover is in a recharging phase to conserve power for the upcoming drilling activities.

Limitations

The evidence covers only three sols (5060-5062) from a 3-minute read, with limited context on the full Nazca campaign timeline and specific results from the engineering parallelism test awaiting analysis.

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