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Another of those #JezeroBrightRocks. This one looks rather curly 🙃

3D: left pair for parallel, right pair for crossed-eyed viewing.

Processed, cropped MCZ_LEFT+RIGHT+LEFT stereogram, FL: 110mm
looking NNE (16°) from RMC 91.0806
Sol 1972, LMST: 13:24:55
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01972/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1972_0842007174_644EBY_N0910806ZCAM04460_1100LMJ01.png

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

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Sub-millimeter detail of the edge of #Perseverance's latest abrasion, outside Jezero Crater, Mars.

Processed, rotated SHERLOC_WATSON
looking NNW (338°) from RMC 91.0806
Sol 1970, LMST: 15:34:52
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01970/ids/edr/browse/shrlc/SIF_1970_0841837640_511EBY_N0910806SRLC00478_0000LMJ01.png

Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Considering the attention this #JezeroBrightRock has received, I'd say there 's probably more coming: a drilling operation to get a sample?

Detail and context images of #Perseverance's latest abrasion, and possible sample location (marked green).

Processed SHERLOC_WATSON
looking NNW (338°) from RMC 91.0806
Sol 1970, LMST: 15:12:54
Originals:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01970/ids/edr/browse/shrlc/SI1_1970_0841836284_632ECM_N0910806SRLC00639_0000LMJ01.png
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01970/ids/edr/browse/shrlc/SIF_1970_0841838889_175EBY_N0910806SRLC04001_0000LMJ01.png
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01970/ids/edr/browse/shrlc/SIF_1970_0841839506_632EBY_N0910806SRLC00546_0000LMJ01.png

Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Mint Canyon Formation, Coursegold Rd, Santa Clarita, California 🪐

#curiosity #mahli #mars #mars2020 #msl #perseverance #rover #watson

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Mint Canyon Formation, Coursegold Rd, Santa Clarita, California 🪐

#curiosity #mahli #mars #mars2020 #msl #perseverance #rover #watson

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Mint Canyon Formation, Coursegold Rd, Santa Clarita, California 🪐

#curiosity #mahli #mars #mars2020 #msl #perseverance #rover #watson

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Mint Canyon Formation, Coursegold Rd, Santa Clarita, California 🪐

#curiosity #mahli #mars #mars2020 #msl #perseverance #rover #watson

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Observations like this, and probably others we haven't noticed, may be the answer to why #Perseverance has been going in circles up and down, left and right in this wide area called Lac De Charmes.

Map made with #QGIS using data from #NASA's #MMGIS and imagery from #HiRISE and #USGS

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New sol, new location, new site number 91. Relative to site coordinates x, y, z are reset to zero, so this is mostly guesswork.

That interface between smooth and rocky terrain ahead may be it. The destination.

Map made with #QGIS using #NASA's #MMGIS data and imagery and DTMs from #HiRISE and #USGS.

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The old America

#Perseverance's MMRTG and unscathed wheel. Hardware that works with 0% #hype, #BS or #AI .

Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 34mm
looking E (81°) from RMC 89.4246
Sol 1932, LMST: 12:35:51
Originals:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01932/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1932_0838453159_659EBY_N0894246ZCAM05211_0340LMJ01.png
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01932/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1932_0838454225_659EBY_N0894246ZCAM05211_0340LMJ01.png

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

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Mars überrascht wieder: Curiosity findet organische Vielfalt wie nie zuvor – und warum das für ExoMars jetzt noch wichtiger wird
https://dauckchristian.home.blog/2026/04/22/mars-uberrascht-wieder-curiosity-findet-organische-vielfalt-wie-nie-zuvor-und-warum-das-fur-exomars-jetzt-noch-wichtiger-wird/ #Mars #Curiosity #MarsScience #OrganicMolecules #Astrobiology #MarsExploration #RedPlanet #LifeOnMars #Biosignatures
#PlanetaryScience #SpaceScience #NASA #ESA #ExoMars #RosalindFranklinRover #MOMA #SAMInstrument #MarsGeology #AncientMars #MarsResearch #Perseverance #MarsSampleReturn #MSR #MarsSamples #SampleReturn #Mars2020 #MarsMission

#Perseverance either drove into a dead end and is now surrounded by heaps of sand, or found something interesting there, which we don't see yet…

Over-processed to show sand patterns, undistorted, leveled, cropped NAVCAM_RIGHT
looking ENE (71°) from RMC 82.2866
Sol 1704, LMST: 12:36:19

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01704/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NRF_1704_0818212608_691ECM_N0822866NCAM02704_01_195J01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space #QGIS #MMGIS #USGS #HiRISE

Pontential sign of Ancient life☺️
NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year
https://nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-says-mars-rover-discovered-potential-biosignature-last-year/
#Astrobiology #Mars #Mars2020 #Perseverance #JezeroCrater #Mars2020Mission #Nasa #MarsRover #MarsSampleReturn #MSR #Biosignature

Mars2020 - Sol 1566 - MastCam-Z 🪐

#curiosity #hirise #mars #mars2020 #mastcam #mastcamz #msl #perseverance

⏩ 17 new pictures from @kevinmgill https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=17&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250718110459

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover to Take Bite Out of ‘Krokodillen’

The area has been on the Perseverance science team’s wish list because it marks an important boundary between the oldest rocks of Jezero Crater’s rim and those of the plains beyond the crater

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-to-take-bite-out-of-krokodillen

#Mars #Perseverance #Krokodillen #NorthernRimCampaign #JezeroCrater #space #science #geology #PerseveranceRover #Mars2020 #biosignature #astrobiology #life #news

#Perseverance has now arrived at the area called Broom's Point.

Tosol is Sol 1435 of the #Mars2020 mission, Lₛ is 52.1, and the local time in Jezero Crater is now 18:21.

The map was made with #QGIS and data from #NASA's #MMGIS, #HiRISE and #USGS

Processed, leveled, cropped NAVCAM_RIGHT mosaic
looking NNW (332°) from RMC 69.2124
Sol 1435, LMST: 13:51:34

One original:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01435/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NRF_1435_0794336896_722ECM_N0692124NCAM03435_01_195J01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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#Perseverance's 5th campaign, named Northern Rim, on the map (comes out being about 9km from Lookout Hill to Singing Canyon).

Now, if you call this part of *western* Jezero Crater 'northern', then it follows that there will also be a *southern* rim campaign in the future 😎

Digitized in #QGIS from a screenshot of the video in the article above.

#Mars2020 #NASA #Solarocks #Space #MMGIS #HiRISE #USGS

Another sol, another 40m higher and 200m closer to the top, Lookout Hill, for #Perseverance. The new path shown on the map is a guess.

Map drawn with #QGIS using data from #NASA's #MMGIS , map imagery from #HiRISE and DTMs from #USGS

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space