An assortment of rocks with some very interesting colors at the new location of #Perseverance (the "hill" at present, but we need an official name for this mound).
Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 63mm
looking NE (45°) from RMC 52.4312
Sol 1162, LMST: 15:16:36
This Memorial Day added an interesting twist to the daily grind of #Perseverance 🙂 Not only did it clear the rest of the rego-ripples it had to the north, but took advantage of the holiday to go on a picnic at a nice hill to the northeast 😀 🙃. Apparently the hill has a geological story to tell and the team's geologists are eager to hear it.
Wild guess (double stitched white) vs. official path (double solid white).
It appears #Perseverance did that 200m drive in one go without intermediate stops (whereas I had one on Sol 1160), and that driving through the ripples wasn't a problem at all, apparently 😯
#Perseverance's MastcamZ is ~1.9m above ground level. The tilt of the image may be indicative of (but is not equal to) the inclination of the ground where the rover was located when it captured the image.
Processed, leveled MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 63mm
looking W (273°) from RMC 52.3018
Sol 1159, LMST: 09:13:53
#Ingenuity is seen here sticking its solar panel above the sandy waves of #ValinorHills in this image from Sol 1152 received today. While the solar panel of the #MarsHelicopter may still be visible from the rover at its present location on Sol 1159, it will soon disappear when #Perseverance clears the ripples it's facing on its way northwest to Bright Angel.
Another ~13m drive, -2m in elevation change for #Perseverance, along the easternmost path I mentioned yesterday. Maybe those ripples aren't that difficult to cross after all.
New location for #Perseverance on Sol 1156, after a rather short ~16m drive downhill, which brought the rover 2m lower, to RMC 52.2750. There is now a ~10m remaining vertical distance to be covered to the bottom of the riverbank and onto the ancient riverbed of Neretva Vallis.
#Perseverance moved just 6 clicks on Sol 1154, apparently repositioning itself at the same location, so, no new map, just a newsbite from Mars
(courtesy of Little Assistant™)
#Perseverance's weather JSON feed has not been updated for the last 3 weeks, since Sol 1133, although it still returns a reply. The #Mars2020 mission's weather page has disappeared after the last changes and it now redirects to a page describing the rover's instruments, without any link to their details
It looks more and more like #NASA have changed their outreach policy, but not much has been reported about it, AFAICT. A victim of the thriving "space economy", I guess?