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  1. Paul Hammond @PaulHammond51 ·

    @pomarede
    Was not expecting that U-turn 🤔 Maybe some of the post drilling data was corrupted which forced a return? Time will tell :)

    Here's the 360 NavCam, maps and drive data

    #curiosity #msl #marsrover #nasa #science #space
  2. Paul Hammond @PaulHammond51 ·

    Meanwhile on Mars:
    For those that have been following along. After several days of robotic arm gymnastics, the slab of rock that was stuck on Curiosity Rover's drill bit has finally been liberated.

    Animated HazCam GIF from Sol 4883 (April 2, 2026) Shows a pair of before and after liberation images. Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

    #curiosity #msl #marsrover #nasa #science #space
  3. Paul Hammond @PaulHammond51 ·

    9 overlapping ChemCam RMI images acquired during sol 4687 assembled into a mosaic using MS-ICE. Curiosity rover acquired additional images, but they have yet to be downlinked from the rover in the correct format on the public server. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/IRAP

    #curiosity #msl #marsrover #nasa #science #space
  4. Paul Hammond @PaulHammond51 ·

    @65dBnoise

    Now we have to wait for the samples page to be updated, then we'll know how small it is :)

    science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-

    :)

    #sizematters
  5. Paul Hammond @PaulHammond51 ·

    Did Perseverance discover glowing minerals?
    Mars Guy (YouTube) - Episode 179.

    youtube.com/watch?v=Bx6XDu6iL1Y

    #perserverance #mars #youtube #marsguy #marsrover
  6. Paul Hammond @PaulHammond51 ·

    Drive on sol 1254 - Looks like they either fancied checking out the exposed rocks to the east side of the waypoint reached on sol 1253, or they wanted to get away from the soft regolith that appears could have halted the 1253 drive after ~3 meters.

    #solarocks #space #mars #rover #perserverance #navcam
  7. Paul Hammond @PaulHammond51 ·

    Approximate locations of Perseverance rover and its sidekick Ingenuity helicopter during Sol 1250 (August 26, 2024) The view is looking due west, and shows the rover climbing up towards the crater rim.

    Image credits:
    HRSC: ESA/DLR/FU-BERLIN, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
    CTX: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
    HiRISE: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
    HiRISE dataset: Fergason et al., 2020

    #Vista

    #solarocks #space #mars #rover #perserverance #ingenuity
  8. Paul Hammond @PaulHammond51 ·

    Managed to add 2 additional tiles to one of the 4-tile NavCams acquired by Perseverance rover after its drive on sol 1246. If you think this vista is special, it's only going to get better as the rover climbs higher towards the crater rim.

    #solarocks #space #mars #rover #perserverance #navcam
  9. Paul Hammond @PaulHammond51 ·

    Video of Ken Farley's talk at the 10th International Mars Conference discussing Mars sample return and the samples collected to date, including “Cheyava Falls”. Ken is the project scientist for NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover mission.

    youtube.com/watch?v=61phIWESjis

    #solarocks #space #mars #rover #perserverance #marssamplereturn
  10. Paul Hammond @PaulHammond51 ·

    Aeolian Landscape: Jezero Crater, Mars. Mission Sol 1234 from site 56.3438. MastCam-Z at maximum zoom (110 mm). Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

    #solarocks #space #mars #rover #perserverance #mastcamz
  11. Paul Hammond @PaulHammond51 ·

    NASA's Viking mission landed two spacecraft on Mars in 1976, Viking landers 1 and 2. This video by Tom Dahl describes the lander's Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs).

    youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnnzusE1mo

    #mars #viking #rtgs