My team has a good plan to keep me going even as power levels drop. Bits of me will have to turn off, starting today. is.gd/53bD

Temps this week hovering around -40C/-40F (the high) and -95C/-139F (the overnight low).

It's a bit stormy today. Not sure if these are dust or ice clouds, but the sky is more obscured & less sunlight is hitting my solar arrays.

fall and winter are coming, bringing cold temps & dark days that eventually I'll succumb to, but not yet

So anyway yeah, I'm still alive! My team is devising a plan to help me go on as long as robotically possible (many more weeks I hope).

Other than that sample, my arm is all done collecting new samples for delivery to TEGA and MECA. Now I'm digging to assess ice table here.

A sample of dirt is stuck in the funnel opening to the Chem Lab, so using my robotic arm I'll try to give it a careful nudge tomorrow.

Highest wind speed was a few days ago, 40 km/hr (25mph). You can watch here: tinyurl.com/5onwgh . Earlier it was 25 km/hr.

The dust here isn't decreasing power as much as the shorter days and colder temps. I'm making less power and using more.

If I'm lucky and have enough power, I'll turn on the microphone and record some sounds of Mars. That would be cool.