New location for #Perseverance on Sol 1144, RMC 52.1950.
This may be the last location visible by #Ingenuity's RTE camera, as the rover has now reached the theoretical limit of its field-of-view (cyan line). The #MarsHelicopter has been programmed to capture one RTE image every sol for as long as it is able to wake up every sol perform its routine of gathering environmental and system data, as a stationary testbed.
The slope of the southern Neretva Vallis riverbank appears steepening at this new location. This may be the start of the hardest part of the descent to the ancient riverbed, on the way to the geologically interesting rock formation Bright Angel, the next science target for #Perseverance.
Processed, leveled NAVCAM_RIGHT quick mosaic
looking WNW (285°) from RMC 52.1950
Sol 1144, LMST: 13:03:58
@richard
Now we wait for the Perseverance team to downlink those images from Ingenuity.
However, it is unknown when NASA will try to retrieve images from the Mars Helicopter. Maybe people who still have an account on X, where NASA has an official presence, could ask them to do that?
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