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  1. As if to aid speculation, #Perseverance's team is building a dedicated panorama of this #JezeroBrightRocks. Here it is, quickly composed as more images are coming in.

    Processed, manually stitched MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
    looking down (-60°) from RMC 91.0806
    Sol 1967, LMST: 13:46:30
    One of the originals:
    mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

    Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech #ASU/65dBnoise

    #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

  2. #Perseverance's team decided those #JezeroBrightRocks were interesting enough to have one abraded (probably), so they moved the rover close to one large enough to withstand some abuse…

    Stereogram for 3D viewing; left pair for parallel, right pair for cross-eyed.

    Processed, cropped, annotated NAVCAM_RIGHT
    looking WSW (244°) from RMC 91.0806
    Sol 1965, LMST: 15:13:47
    Original: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

    Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

    #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

  3. With implications for #JezeroBrightRocks, a revisit of Nili Fossae regional minerals and mapped units.

    Baker & Ehlmann: "Aluminum Phyllosilicate and Jarosite Formation Through Alteration of Reworked Al/Si-Rich Volcaniclastic Sediments in Nili Fossae"
    doi.org/10.1029/2025JE009605

    #JezeroRimScience #JezeroDeltaScience #kaolinite

  4. #Perseverance appears to be really focused on those #JezeroBrightRocks at its current location.

    Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
    looking NNE (13°) from RMC 91.0000
    Sol 1949, LMST: 12:57:40
    Original: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

    Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech #LANL #CNES #IRAP/65dBnoise

    #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

  5. @65dBnoise One difference with other #JezeroBrightRocks is that there appears to be some embedded #JezeroRimSpherules in there? Where are we in relief heights compared to Broom Point, does your map say?

    mastodon.social/@sharponlooker

  6. From last December: a new iteration on the #JezeroBrightRocks studies (previously mastodon.social/@sharponlooker), this time with comparison to Earth's analogs. It still doesn't extend beyond sol 1000 (Neretva Vallis) so it doesn't cover the CRISM detections around Pico Turquino/Seattle Park (fig. 7)

    Broz et al: "Alteration history of aluminum-rich rocks at Jezero crater"
    doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-028

    #JezeroDeltaScience #JezeroRimScience #kaolinite

  7. Analysis and rough classification of float rocks in the fan front with #PerseveranceRover's Mastcam + some SuperCam. No big surprises other than the absence of iron meteorites.

    Kathir et al: "Multispectral Observations of Float Rocks Used to Investigate the Origin of Boulders on the Western Jezero Fan Front"
    doi.org/10.1029/2024JE008702

    #JezeroDeltaScience #JezeroBrightRocks

  8. @65dBnoise 👍👍👍

    (Reposted with public so that it comes up in #JezeroBrightRocks tag clicks & searches). Sol 1458, SuperCam, by Sally's Cove

    Original: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima
    Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/65dBnoise

  9. The hypothesis diagram for the high-aluminum light rocks on Jezero, figure 6 from the paper above

    #JezeroBrightRocks #kaolinite #spinel

  10. @65dBnoise 👍👍

    Strange how that top face looks as if this was just a halve of the rock, but I guess it's the different exposure to the "elements"

    (IANAG) We will have to wait for data if this is a high-al or silica-rich, but it looks more like the latter and these ones from around Pico Turquino (mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/113). The pic below is from the quartz rocks paper (sciencedirect.com/science/arti)

    #JezeroBrightRocks

  11. Peer-reviewed, open access version of the above (post nr 11)

    Beck et al : "From hydrated silica to quartz: Potential hydrothermal precipitates found in Jezero crater"
    doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.11

    h/t @IRAP astrodon.social/@IRAP/11410407

    #JezeroRimScience #JezeroDeltaScience #JezeroBrightRocks

  12. Poster for a new iteration of analysis of light-toned float rocks, and a suggested formation scenario. #spinel #kaolinite

    Royer et al : "Mineral Diversity of Light-Toned Float Rocks in Jezero Crater as Seen by SuperCam"
    hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025

    🧵 18/n

    #JezeroDeltaScience #JezeroRimScience #JezeroBrightRocks

    [EDIT]: final paper at nature.com/articles/s43247-024

  13. Poster on #FreyaCastle / "zebra rock". Not sure if we can see which one is #KautzCreek without the #PDSAnalystNotebook perhaps.

    Klidaras et al: "The Enigma of "Zebra Rock": A Banded Rock Discovered on the Jezero Crater Rim"
    hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025

    "Gaze through ancient lines / Secrets buried deep in time / Zebra stripes of Mars."

    🧵 17/n

    #JezeroRimScience #JezeroBrightRocks

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