Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA
They could spend months investigating just the stuff you could throw a stone at from here, but I guess they'll pack up soon and head away?
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Another day, another drive for Perseverance rover. This short drive was completed during mission sol 1463 (April 1, 2025) to site number 71.160. Attached is one of the tiled end-of-drive left NavCam image. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Sol 4496 L-MastCam mosaic using 15 Bayer reconstructed images NASA/JPL-Caltech/fredk
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA
Site 71.120 - 4-tile NavCam - NASA/JPL-Caltech
This photo was selected by public vote and featured as "Image of the Week" for Week 215 (March 23 - 29, 2025) of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars.
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast.
This image was acquired on March 27, 2025 (Sol 1458) at the local mean solar time of 11:52:53.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
This photo was selected by public vote and featured as "Image of the Week" for Week 215 (March 23 - 29, 2025) of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars.
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast.
This image was acquired on March 27, 2025 (Sol 1458) at the local mean solar time of 11:52:53.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Link to the flare report
https://www.spaceweather.gov/news/r3-strong-solar-flare-occurred-28-march-2025
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
There are a few places that come close (Desert areas), but no exact matches. Here are a few that come close
https://www.bbcearth.com/news/the-places-where-you-can-visit-mars-on-earth
I used to own a small collection of pebbles that I'd gathered on my travels, each triggered fond memories of places visited. But all were left at my old place when I moved. For whatever reason I failed to start a new collection since moving. You're right, I am drawn to the polished cobbles, some of them remind me of desert varnish. However if I could only pick one to place on my desk, then it would have be one of the small iron meteorites that have been spotted by the rovers. There are some nice SuperCam's of this target, but my poor processing skills of those raw images don't add any value
It's almost like the DSN is teasing us :)
Can't wait to see the close-ups :)
Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk/UofA
We can see the featured outcrop in the sol 4480 workspace L-MastCam mosaic posted a few days ago on this community. (just right of image center)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6edf70f9-930b-4d36-ad35-128bc75ce61f.jpeg
I wanna play in the Martian sand too!!!
Here's the best section of sand in Gale crater, these were imaged over 9 years ago.
Wild for sure, and now they have driven away with that empty tube.... Hard to understand what's going on
It was but a short time later it is missing from the tube when imaged again with the same camera, and it was also seen to be missing from the tube when it was imaged inside the rover at the sample measuring station by CacheCam a short time later.
It's a probably a delay rather than a problem, as the images we have so far shows they did not cap / seal the empty tube. Empty tubes that have not been capped can be reused many times providing they are not damaged, and this one was apparently not damaged, they just lost the fractured core.
I guess we'll see them try again to obtain a core at this same location, or move on to a less fractured piece of bedrock that may not break up so easily.
Watch this space :)
Looking at the CacheCam, it appears to be another short core.
We'll have to wait for the official length when the update the sample page, but it looks fairly deep in the sample tube.
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I'm just as guilty, I also missed it when I went through the abstracts. It was posted by one of the amateur mappers over on UMSF Discord :) Back in the day when I used to post to FB I maintained a reference FB-Note, but FB decided they did not need notes anymore and it was lost. Not long back I quit FB when they started playing silly games. I'm currently in the middle of removing all my connections to Google, but if you're still using Google I can point you to a maintained traverse map of MSL that's is integrated into Google Earth. The guy who does it posts updates every few drives and he includes all the notional paths. He even has links to higher res map tiles that can be integrated into Google Earth Pro (the free version). Let me know if you're interested