Front right tiled-HazCam - NASA/JPL-Caltech
Wild for sure, and now they have driven away with that empty tube.... Hard to understand what's going on
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16-tile Front Right HazCam mosaic. NASA/JPL-Caltech
Drive on sol 1454 (March 23, 2025). A rotated 4-tile end-of-drive NavCam and a 9-tile of its craggy workspace at site 71.56. NASA/JPL-Caltech
Here's the 9 tile mosaic
Drive data (distance & map etc not available at this point)
Mosaic by Kevin Gill
Source (Original size 13975 × 4494px) https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/54404022054/sizes/o/
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill
This photo was selected by public vote and featured as "Image of the Week" for Week 214 (March 16 - 22, 2025) of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars.
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast.
This image was acquired on March 21, 2025 (Sol 1452) at the local mean solar time of 12:13:44.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Drive data from JPL's JSON feed
5cm 2inch diameter
Perseverance rover acquired this image using its SHERLOC WATSON camera, located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm.
Contrast stretched to highlight the details
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Map:
Drive data:
It was but a short time later it is missing from the tube when imaged again with the same camera, and it was also seen to be missing from the tube when it was imaged inside the rover at the sample measuring station by CacheCam a short time later.
It's a probably a delay rather than a problem, as the images we have so far shows they did not cap / seal the empty tube. Empty tubes that have not been capped can be reused many times providing they are not damaged, and this one was apparently not damaged, they just lost the fractured core.
I guess we'll see them try again to obtain a core at this same location, or move on to a less fractured piece of bedrock that may not break up so easily.
Watch this space :)
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1444 - Failed coring attempt. This fractured core was lost before it could be transferred to the cache inside the rover
(lemmy.world)
Site 69.2124, adjacent to the recent successful core
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Looking at the CacheCam, it appears to be another short core.
We'll have to wait for the official length when the update the sample page, but it looks fairly deep in the sample tube.
3rd times a charm?
The disapproval could be associated with having being zapped with the rover's laser (See the 5 small bright spots on its surface)
you want a pet rock?
You know me so well ;)
Very gracious. Many thanks :)
is it made of clay, and can you chew it?
Not clay, it's an iron-nickel meteorite, that stuff is harder than nails, so chewing it would likely require some special teeth :)
Then I best stick with my first pick from 2016 :)
Probably way beyond my budget LOL
You did a fine job polishing it :) I guess I'll have to find another one :)
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It's almost like the DSN is teasing us :)
Can't wait to see the close-ups :)