Those who desire image desire #Perseverance.
Just a few sols after successfully sealing the challenging Green Gardens core, Perseverance roved on to the Broom Point workspace to collect another sample called Main River.
Check out this post by Denise Buckner, Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/navigating-a-slanted-river/
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out, it's the pebble in your shoe.
-- Muhammad Ali
Remember that rock, made up of tiny spherules, which #Perseverance saw the other sol? Here is one somewhat similar, now seen by #Curiosity:
Post:
𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝟰𝟰𝟳𝟵-𝟰𝟰𝟴𝟬: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗟𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘆, 𝗕𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘆 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸?
"The two rocks right in front of us are different from anything that we have looked at before on the mission, so we are eager to know what they are."
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4479-4480-what-is-that-lumpy-bumpy-rock/
Mars #PerseveranceRover looks up and sees an #eye looking back down https://zorz.it/jrQNj | #MattGrowcoot #eclipse #Mars #MarsPerseveranceRover #Perseverance #Phobos #SolarEclipse #MastcamZ #MartianEclipse #BigSpectacles
Another day, another drive for Perseverance rover. This short drive was completed during mission sol 1445 (March 14, 2025). Arriving at site 70.0.
Attached is a roughly processed post-drive 4-tile L-NavCam image, the drive data and screen capture of the mission map. The dogleg traverse distance was just 6.45 meters (~21 ft) west-northwest. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA.
If #Life on #Mars Ever Existed, This Bizarre Rock May Tell Us
The intriguing chemistry of a rock collected by the #Perseverance rover could trace to microbial activity—or not
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/if-life-on-mars-ever-existed-this-bizarre-rock-may-tell-us/
@PaulHammond51
Ah, yes, one hour later that fragment was gone, which explains the empty look in the face of the bit
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But the question remains. What's so important with this rock that they decided to core it again?
Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
RMC 69.2124
Sol 1444, LMST: 15:24:43 -16:32:28
Originals:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01444/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1444_0795141607_488EBY_N0692124ZCAM05153_1100LMJ01.png
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01444/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1444_0795145778_521EBY_N0692124ZCAM05153_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise