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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

⏩ 7 new pictures from @kevinmgill https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22Spacemedia+Individuals+Flickr+files+uploaded+by+OptimusPrimeBot%22&sort=create_timestamp_desc&ns6=1

A loaf of Martian rock

Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking W (268°) from RMC 91.0806
Sol 1967, LMST: 13:47:05
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01967/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1967_0841564657_568EBY_N0910806ZCAM10012_1100LMJ01.png

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

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

A loaf of Martian rock

Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking W (268°) from RMC 91.0806
Sol 1967, LMST: 13:47:05
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01967/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1967_0841564657_568EBY_N0910806ZCAM10012_1100LMJ01.png

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

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

A loaf of Martian rock

Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking W (268°) from RMC 91.0806
Sol 1967, LMST: 13:47:05
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01967/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1967_0841564657_568EBY_N0910806ZCAM10012_1100LMJ01.png

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

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

A loaf of Martian rock

Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking W (268°) from RMC 91.0806
Sol 1967, LMST: 13:47:05
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01967/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1967_0841564657_568EBY_N0910806ZCAM10012_1100LMJ01.png

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

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

A loaf of Martian rock

Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking W (268°) from RMC 91.0806
Sol 1967, LMST: 13:47:05
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01967/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1967_0841564657_568EBY_N0910806ZCAM10012_1100LMJ01.png

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

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Moon over the Horizon - ISS - August 31 2026 🌎🌑🛰️🪐

#earth #iss #mars #mars2020 #moon #nasa #perseverance #rover

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Moon over the Horizon - ISS - August 31 2026 🌎🌑🛰️🪐

#earth #iss #mars #mars2020 #moon #nasa #perseverance #rover

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Moon over the Horizon - ISS - August 31 2026 🌎🌑🛰️🪐

#earth #iss #mars #mars2020 #moon #nasa #perseverance #rover

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Moon over the Horizon - ISS - August 31 2026 🌎🌑🛰️🪐

#earth #iss #mars #mars2020 #moon #nasa #perseverance #rover

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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

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

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.

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Great views captured just 9 hours ago by Perseverance

📷 https://areo.info/mars20/ecams/1863/

#Mars #Perseverance #rover #Mars2020 #LacDeCharmes #JezeroCrater #Jezero #crater #space #science #astrodon #photography

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

Looks like #Perseverance is finding more of those #spherules we saw last year, this time in loose regolith, too.

Earlier on Mars:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/114145603400311123
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/114975857351453403

Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking SE (125°) from RMC 87.4152
Sol 1833, LMST: 12:02:01
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01833/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1833_0829662423_242EBY_N0874152SCAM01833_0100I6J01.png

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

#JezeroCraterSpherules #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

@PaulHammond51 reminds me that today is the 5th anniversary of #Perseverance landing on the surface of #Mars, hanging under the #SkyCrane as seen in this #OutOfThisWorld image it captured the moment the umbilical cord connecting them was cut, and the Sky Crane veered off to a heroic crash about 900m NW.

De-bayered, processed EDL_RUCAM
RMC: 0.0000 (prelanding, corrected)
Sol: 0 (corrected)
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00293/ids/edr/browse/edl/EUE_0293_0692945892_348ECM_N0090000EDLC00293_0050LUJ01.png
Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech / 65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #solarocks #space

#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

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

This place is full of spherules!

Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking SW (214°) from RMC 70.0000
Sol 1450, LMST: 14:00:31

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01450/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1450_0795669081_058EBY_N0700000SCAM03450_0090I9J01.png

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

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space #spherules

Ha!
Just as I thought that was a rare rock, maybe never to be seen again, here's another one, right next to the rover and to the left of the spot it recently abraded and cored.

Animation and telescopic view.

Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking SW (229°) from RMC 69.2124
Sol 1445, LMST: 12:09:38

Originals:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01445/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1445_0795218351_803EBY_N0692124ZCAM09500_1100LMJ01.png
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01445/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1445_0795216339_303EBY_N0692124SCAM01445_0050I6J01.png

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

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space #Spherules

#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

Solarocks #Space

Mars2020 - Sol 1366 - MastCam-Z 🪐

#cassini #dione #hyperion #mars #mars2020 #mastcamz #perseverance #rover

⏩ 5 new pictures from @kevinmgill https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=5&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20241224110731

Inktomi Crater, Rhea - August 30 2007 🪐

#cassini #dione #mars #mars2020 #mastcamz #perseverance #rhea #rover

⏩ 4 new pictures from @kevinmgill https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=4&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20241214110226

#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