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The Enigma of Zebra Rock: update from #LPSC2025

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/pdf/2014.pdf

#Mars

📷 https://mastcamz.asu.edu/galleries/daniel-pomarede-3/

#ZebraRock #MastcamZforall #Perseverance #Mars2020 #Astrodon #space #science #photography #rover #PerseveranceRover #rock #FreyaCastle #geology #STEM #Arizona #university #ASU #gallery #planetaryscience

Zebra Rock, a mysterious rock with black and white stripes, captured by Perseverance in Stereo3D

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye

Calibrated images by the Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State Univ., Sol 1268, Sep. 13, 2024

#Mars #Perseverance #ZebraRock #FreyaCastle #3D #Stereo3D #stereoscopy #geology #planetaryscience #Mars2020 #rock #rocks #solarocks #science #Stem #astrodon #Mastcam #MastcamZforall #photography

Yay! The Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State University has published my Zebra Rock stuff in their gallery!

https://mastcamz.asu.edu/galleries/daniel-pomarede-3 #Mars

#ZebraRock #MastcamZforall #Perseverance #Mars2020 #Astrodon #space #science #photography #rover #PerseveranceRover #rock #FreyaCastle #geology #STEM #Arizona #university #ASU #gallery

#Mars #FlashbackFriday

Encounter with Zebra Rock, a.k.a "Freya Castle", Sep. 12, 2024. Credit Navcam: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Credit Mastcam: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU, with a recently released natural color image processing by the Mastcam-Z Downlink team at Arizona State University.

#Perseverance #FreyaCastle #ZebraRock #rover #Sol1267 #Sol1268 #Mastcam #Navcam #MastcamZForAll #RedPlanet #geology #space #Astrodon #PerseveranceRover #Solarocks #rock #rocks #Mars2020 #science #engineering #photography

Navcam views captured by Perseverance yesterday. Loads of rocks scattered here and there, no signs of Zebra Rock lookalikes yet!

#Mars Oct. 8, 2024
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#Perseverance #rover #Sol1292 #PerseveranceRover #geology #ZebraRock #FreyaCastle #Mars2020 #space #Astrodon #science #STEM #JezeroCrater #CraterRim #CraterRimCampaign #PicoTurquino #WitchHazelHill

Boudinage 🇫🇷

"Freya Castle looks like a metamorphic rock containing feldspar or other white-ish minerals arranged in something called boudinage. That word stems from French: a chain-link sausage-like structure."

Jeffrey Kargel, Planetary Science Institute

https://universetoday.com/168765/perseverance-finds-a-strange-black-and-white-striped-rock-on-mars/

Credits images:
✅ Navcam: NASA/JPL-Caltech
✅ Mastcam: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Mars #Perseverance #FreyaCastle #ZebraRock #geology #boudinage #PerseveranceRover #space #science #STEM #news #French #France #sausage

"While driving across unremarkable pebbly terrain, beady-eyed team members spotted a cobble in the distance with hints of an unusual texture in low resolution Navcam images..."

Discovery of Freya Castle a.k.a Zebra Rock, the full story by Athanasios Klidaras: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/a-striped-surprise/

Credits images:
✅ Navcam: NASA/JPL-Caltech
✅ Mastcam: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Mars #Perseverance #FreyaCastle #ZebraRock #rover #Sol1268 #Mastcam #geology #space #Astrodon #PerseveranceRover #Solarocks #rock #rocks