A ~140m drive on Sol 1175 has brought the rover at the outskirts of the exposed light colored bedrock which will be the field for proximity science and sampling for the next month(s). The new RMC is 53.0000.
The location shown is a triangulation estimate. The path is a guess.
This is the lowest exposed area of the bedrock at Bright Angel, maybe the best candidate for proximity science and sampling. Also the area with fewer visible boulders, which apparently have tumbled down the steep northern bank.
Marsquakes are rare, but who would risk the rover being hit by a rock while doing science there? 😬
@65dBnoise my favourites for tosol are the navcam panoramas, maybe it's the horizon distortion but it's such a different feeling to see the height difference between the channel and the upper fan from this side... Once again, what a hundred meters do to one's perception 🤯
@PaulHammond51
The odds are better for a Martian Crow to flyby the heli and say "caw-caw" than they are for the rover to cross the sand field and say "cling-cling" 🥴
On Sol 1168 the rover moved to RMC 52.5032 across the ancient riverbed and stopped a few meters away from a light colored layer of rock at the foot of the northern bank, which appears to be the same layer with that of Bright Angel.
¹"the bacon strip": unofficial name for a light colored layer of rock back at the Three Forks area.
The HiRISE/USGS imagery has been imported into QGIS and since forgotten. I'm not fiddling with the rest of the imagery any more, though I used to do that earlier in this mission.
"Space economy" seems to have real impact on the way NASA engages with the public. I've spent a lot of time creating workflows with their data, e.g. for the #MarsWeather reports, LA, etc, but they're now discontinuing services while the mission is still active. That's not very encouraging.
@65dBnoise I think we've all seen the decline in the timelines of the release of new data, and in some cases the complete loss of some data with the move to the new style web pages. Not encouraging at all. It's a sad state of affairs. I did use the on-line feedback form to complain, but I feel that was just shouting into a vacuum
Zooming in on a peculiar white rock in Neretva Vallis
This is a combination of three SuperCam RMI images and one Mastcam-Z image taken by the #Perseverance mars rover.
The images were taken two days ago on Sol 1164.
Nuts, bolts, rivets, springs, metal sheets, brackets, cables, connectors, wave-guides, antennas, all designed by naturally intelligent (NI™) beings and assembled by their dexterous hands to form a multi-functional creature that was sent to operate on an inhospitable planet 15 light-minutes away, and which is presently capturing images of what appears to be an epic "selfie" at a hill in the middle of a long since dry ancient riverbed.
@stim3on
Ah, good catch, and you had already mentioned a selfie being captured earlier. The metadata wouldn't fit in the post, so it slipped my attention. Its from that Sol, yes.
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