Hope Mars Mission
Time: 2023-05-23 00:33
Orbit 377
Filters: f635+f546+f437, f320 used to slightly enhance the orographic cloud over Ascraeus Mons
Processed from: https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae
Looks like Mars rover Perseverance abraded the flat rock it was looking at a few days ago. It then used the SHERLOC instrument to analyze the exposed rock patch.
SHERLOC, the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals uses cameras, spectrometers, and a UV laser to search for organics and minerals that have been altered by watery environments and maybe signs of past microbial life.
Two days ago the Perseverance rover captured these pictures of the Mastcam-Z calibration target with her arm-mounted WATSON camera.
I love these images that show the rover hardware, perhaps it's time for another full selfie? 📸
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / Simeon Schmauß
Anyone reading Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy" or any part of it quickly realizes that while the novels are full of technical details, there are very few maps and those that exist are very coarse.
Mars helicopter Ingenuity during Flight 53 on July 22 performed an emergency landing!
The flight was planned for 203 meters but Ingenuity's ‘LAND_NOW’ software got triggered at the 142-m mark.
The Ingenuity team believes this was caused by loss of image frames from the helicopter’s navigation camera, which are sync'd up with data from the inertial measurement unit.
After a short test Flight 54 on Aug 3, Flight 55 (250-m) was planned for Aug 10/11.
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What is that curious looking object imaged by Mars Rover Perseverance yesterday?
No, it is not a target practice plate for SHERLOC the laser zapper, it is the calibration target for PIXL, the Planetary Instrument for X-Ray Lithochemistry, which is mounted at the end of the robotic arm along with SHERLOC and the drilling apparatus.
The calibration target contains 4 sample disks with known X-ray signatures that PIXL scans approx. once a month. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ #Mars#Perseverance#PIXL
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Will the butterscotch colored high noon skies on Mars, as photographed by landers and rovers, look butterscotch to the human eye under sunlight that has half the intensity on Mars than it has on Earth?
Maybe not, or rather, not as much as many photographs show. And the reason for that may be the Purkinje effect, i.e. the shifting spectral sensitivity of the eye (human and animal) under different light conditions:
Let me disabuse you of the idea that a Martian colony is the way to save mankind.
Survival on Mars is 1000x more difficult with no free flowing water, no atmosphere, no ozone, no magnetosphere, much less solar radiation to power anything including biological life.
Choosing Mars is picking the absolute worst probability to beat gambler's ruin.
Even a 3' warmer Earth is better.
The first IQ test is to stop pursuing stupid ideas as a magic bullet.
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