Hard to tell if this is the same core imaged a few sols ago. Watch this space for updates. But this one looks ready to cap / seal
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I don't blame you for being surprised. I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to find an official source for the planned future route of the rover down to the level of Nili Planum/Lac de Charmes. All I can see online is the original animation from the AGU presentation last year. Route information doesn't turn up in this year's LPSC abstracts, unless I've missed something.
In any case, my understanding always was that they were going to drive down to the edge of the ripple/TAR field at the base of the rim, so they seem to following the plan for now.
I'd missed the bit about the TAR.... They drove again on 1503, no details yet, I'm assuming that they carried on WSW :)