Video Transcript: Curiosity's Martian Holiday Hi, I am Colette
Lohr, tactical uplink lead on the Mars Science Laboratory
mission, and this is your Curiosity Rover Report. Recently, the
rover drove by an outcrop called 'Shaler,' where we used
Curiosity's Chemistry and Camera, or ChemCam instrument, and
Mast Camera to look at the rock's composition and observe its
layering. Then from Shaler, we drove another 50 meters or so and
we descended roughly half a meter into a location called Yellow
Knife Bay, making science observations along the way. The team
is now searching in earnest for a suitable rock for our first
drill activity after the holidays. This has been a really
exciting time for the team because we've started to do what we
call, 'discovery-driven planning,' and this is when we, in a
sense, hand over the rover keys to the science team. In the
early part of any mission, much of what the rover does is pre-
scripted, as we kind of perform checkouts and do first-time
activities. But in recent sols, or Martia