Earlier today on Mars: Curiosity rover has been busy drilling a new sample hole. Attached is a HazCam image acquired after drilling. I have added a couple of arrows pointing at the small heap of powdered rock around the drill hole. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech #Mars#Solarocks#Curiosity
#Curiosity is currently doing science in an eerie looking environment up on Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater, where rocks frequently appear having lace-like structures, as the one seen in this image:
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#Curiosity is currently pulling a big wheelie on #Mars, and the drive on Sol 4041 to get a wheel back on solid ground faulted out after moving only a short distance. MARDI is helping turn lemons into lemonade, as the limited motion provided just enough offset for a stereo image. Here's a red-blue anaglyph of the ground under the rover processed from the publicly available raw imaging.
After wandering for a while to the north, #Perseverance seems to have decided that the best way to go is to follow #Ingenuity's ground track to SW.
Interestingly, the rover's location after yestersol's and tosol's drive was updated before any image from the new location appeared in the repository. The map shows the official localizations.
While #Perseverance seems to be having a good time, like a city dweller strolling in a park, #Curiosity does all the hard climbing, like a true veteran mountaineer that it is. Look at those worn out wheels: one is up in the air, not even touching ground.
Started work on my abstract for #LPSC2024 today! I've been slowly mosaicking frames from the MARDI drive videos #Curiosity collected while exploring #MarkerBandValley. Once they're georeferenced, I hope they'll be of major use to scientists working to piece together the environmental transitions taking place on Mars when the Marker Band was deposited! Here's a roughly 4 m x 1 m segment of the drive performed on Sol 3648 (November 10, 2022).