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Following MSL & M2020 on Mars.

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65dBnoise, to space
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 34mm
looking WNW (301ยฐ) from RMC 51.2390
Sol 1108, LMST: 14:58:14

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01108/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1108_0765311654_973EBY_N0512390ZCAM07114_0340LMJ02.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

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On Mars it could be referred to as 'Beauty is in the eye of the crushed boulder' ;)

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@65dBnoise
A poet, and didn't know it ๐Ÿ˜€

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Curiosity Rover: Mission sol 4142. Robotic arm workspace featuring part of 'Hinman Col', a poorly sorted collection of clasts located along the margin of Gediz Vallis ridge in Gale crater on the planet Mars. 24 overlapping R-MastCam images were assembled into this mosaic using MS-ICE. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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On Sol 1106 tried again to cross the rego-ripple that stopped it a couple of sols ago. It moved less than 1.5m to RMC 51.1904, and stopped again, as can be seen in the animation below.

Processed, undistorted, leveled NAVCAM_RIGHT mosaics, animated
looking W (270ยฐ) from RMC 51.1904
Sol 1106, LMST: 12:09:49
One original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01106/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NRF_1106_0765123801_410ECM_N0511904NCAM00318_14_095J01.png

Credit: /JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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@65dBnoise
Mars Rovers and loose sand have yet to find a good working relationship...

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@65dBnoise Only a matter of time! But probably unlikely in what remains of my time :)

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@65dBnoise

Someone could have been sharing my dreams... :)

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Inspection time for PIXL, the Planetary Instrument for X-Ray Lithochemistry, located on the turret at the end of Perseverance's robotic arm.

Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking WSW (255ยฐ) from RMC 51.1886
Sol 1105, LMST: 14:05:41

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01105/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1105_0765042162_770EBY_N0511886ZCAM05164_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

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@65dBnoise
I'd like to see the LED's tested after sunset. It would be quite a show :)

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@tom30519 @65dBnoise There's a GIF out there somewhere from a few years ago. I'll see if I can find it again

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Interesting marking on a SUPERCAM calibration target bolt.

Animated

Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking SSW (211ยฐ) from RMC 51.0410
Sol 1098, LMST: 11:25:57

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01098/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1098_0764410915_121EBY_N0510410SCAM05098_0180I6J01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/65dBnoise

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@65dBnoise
A tad early for the next ฯ€ day ;)

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@65dBnoise

Exactly! I've seen a few fixings in my time, but never one using that symbol :)

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@65dBnoise
I'm assuming that it is the symbol used by the bolt manufacturer. The closest I could find is 'Pennsylvania Industrial Fasteners' who stamped the letters 'Pi' on their fasteners. But the most recent reference I can find is from 2014. Maybe they changed it to ฯ€? :)

https://www.electronicfasteners.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/northamericanmfgidentificationmarkings.pdf

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@65dBnoise

If so it likely added a few shillings to the price ๐Ÿ˜€

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NASA SpaceFlight had a very interesting live interview with Travis Brown, PhD, 's current Chief Engineer. Travis said that in spite of an original though/assumption that Ingenuity's rotors had hit the ground during landing of , they now tend to believe that it was rather a very hard landing that damaged the rotors, since there is no evidence anywhere on the regolith of a blade hit.

Earlier fact list here:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/112032961625951266

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@65dBnoise Is there recording / link to that interview? I'd love to listen to it :)

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@Undertow @65dBnoise

Thanks - watching now :)

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's rover
Mast Camera (Mastcam)

Sol 4032 >> 4132

NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger

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@Landru79 Took me moment ๐Ÿ˜

65dBnoise, to space
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moved about 40m NNW of its previous location, after a ~50m drive on Sol 1096, to RMC 51.0410. The path shown is a guess.

Quick NAVCAM_LEFT mosaic, processed, undistorted, leveled
looking NNW (342ยฐ) from RMC 51.0410
Sol 1096, LMST: 13:08:30

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01096/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NLF_1096_0764239673_316ECM_N0510410NCAM03096_01_195J01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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@65dBnoise

Have you checked the LOS to the helicopter yet?

I'm hoping that they will continue to acquire ground images (from time to time) Been a few weeks since the last image.

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@65dBnoise

Thanks.

Fingers crossed for more images, and that blog post detailing the accident :)

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@sharponlooker @65dBnoise

I just finished watching it. Nothing on the accident.

The main take away for me was the blobs of dust on the NavCams that floated around in the animated images. It was inside the camera lens as it was the lowest point inside the helicopter. I'd always mistakenly assumed they were motes of dust that were clumping on the outside of the lens :)

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@sharponlooker @65dBnoise

That plus a lot of maps that might have some place names we've not seen yet (or probably I just missed them) :)

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@65dBnoise Agreed, it's all over the place. It would take a special kind of mission nerd to even want to consider even taking on that task, never mind having the skills to batch process the images, sort them in the correct sequence, and then assemble them in to a GIF / video...

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From time to time #Perseverance uses its fixed down looking camera, or EDL_RDCAM, to record movies of, well, the ground ๐Ÿฅด , probably while the ground radar RIFMAX does its thing. And let's not forget that it's the same camera that captured those epic images during the rover's descent to the Martian ground.

Debayered, processed EDL_RDCAM
Image captured from RMC 51.0030
Sol 1094, LMST: 12:55:27

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01094/ids/edr/browse/edl/EDE_1094_0764061319_591ECM_N0510030EDLC09016_0010LUJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

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@65dBnoise

Maybe LittleAssistant is not looking in the right place :) Try selecting movie frames on the raw server, or use Aerobrowser to view Sol 910:

https://areobrowser.com/#/mode=perseverance&instruments=ED&timeframe=sol:910

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@65dBnoise I realise there was no drive on 910, but that's probably the same time stamp issue that the EDL cameras have been plagued with since landing.

IIRC the images are captured by the camera, but only assigned a timestamp when they are transferred to the the main computer. So I guess we can safely assume the images were acquired before sol 910 :)

As for your LA, maybe time to put it back in learn mode. It's already way faster than us mere nerdy morals, it can only get better :)

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@65dBnoise @Landru79 I believe you could be right. Fingers crossed :)

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@65dBnoise I glad that your LA is not weened on Hallucinogenic's (AI) :) Happy that it's more of a tugger of shirt tails that says "Hey Human, take a look at this, it may be interesting" :)

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@65dBnoise

Thought of a sound clip I replaced on my office Apple Mac SE, it was set to play in place of the 'Error Beep' ๐Ÿคฃ

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"

Raised a few smiles back in the day...

Foreshadowing? ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

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