#Perseverance moved another ~40m to SW to RMC 51.2390, inching closer to the area where it will again have visibility to #Ingenuity (green on the map). The path shown is a guess.
EDIT: Updated map. New images coming in show that the rover moved further south to avoid some difficult to drive through terrain.
This map shows where along the edge of the ancient riverbank to expect #Ingenuity to be visible again by #Perseverance's masthead cameras, NAVCAM, MCZ and SUPERCAM. Dark areas have no visibility to the #MarsHelicopter.
From time to time #Perseverance uses its fixed down looking camera, or EDL_RDCAM, to record movies of, well, the ground 🥴 , 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
When looking east from Neretva Vallis, the lower slopes of Jezero Mons were previously visible in the distance; but not any more. The haze now seems impenetrable. Colors, too, have changed.
Map follows.
Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking E (99°) from RMC 51.0000
Sol 1085, LMST: 10:29:40
New ~20m drive and new location for #Perseverance on Sol 1066, at RMC 50.1534. #Ingenuity is still in sight (light colored areas have visibility to the #MarsHelicopter).
Map drawn using QGIS with data from #MMGIS and imagery from #USGS and #HiRISE
Finally on Sol 1063 #Perseverance did the right thing and backed off 23m to an area where it (most probably) has line-of-site to #Ingenuity, so more images of the #MarsHelicopter can be captured, especially images with its SUPERCAM telescope.
The previous location where Perseverance captured images of the Ingenuity is shown with a green rover.
Sol 1049 noon finds #Perseverance 50 m WNW from its previous location, now at RMC 50.0524, still about 70m away from a large area with line-of-site to #Ingenuity's retirement place. There may be more driving during this sol though.
#Perseverance is training its telescope, SUPERCAM, on distant rocks, probably rehearsing the long picture shots it may try to capture of #Ingenuity, in the coming sols.
Map follows.
Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking NNE (19°) from RMC 49.5338
Sol 1047, LMST: 10:53:05
Another sol, another drive for #Perseverance. The rover is approaching the northern edge of the rocky Margin Unit, getting closer to where #Ingenuity is located after its eventful #Flight72, but it still has no line-of-sight to the #MarsHelicopter. It may be in a better position for a first look in a sol or two, as seen in the visibility plot below.
@stim3on
There is always something more to expect from #Ingenuity 😀. Even when it finally dies, if it ever does die 🙃, we'll be finding it in new #HiRISE imagery saying hello to us 😆
The new location doesn't seem to be much different wrt UHF communications with #Ingenuity, maybe a tad less bad, but definitely not good, AFAICT by this simplistic radiocoverage approximation. So I wouldn't expect #MarsHelicopter images to flood the dowlink, unless #Perseverance drives further into that beam of, um, radio clearness extending to the west and south of its current location.
Images from #Ingenuity's #Flight70 have started pouring in. This one shows the area where the #MarsHelicopter did an emergency landing during #Flight71, and a posible location for that, guessed from the laconic announcement of JPL on X.
Map follows.
Processed HELI_RTE image captured from RMC 70.0001/4
Sol 1009, LMST: 10:15:09
The map shows the approximate location of the #MarsHelicopter when the image above was captured. It appears that #Flight70 wasn't as straight as shown in the (prelimilary?) official localization (solid orange), but veered to the right and went a little farther, as usual,to find a suitable place to land.
Here is something that looks like one of those thermal blanket fragments from the #SkyCrane which brought #Perseverance onto the Martian surface and then rocketed away and crashed about 670m NW of the Octavia E. Butler landing site.
Only... that crash site is now about 6.2km ESE of #Perseverance
Animated zoom. Map follows.
NAVCAM_RIGHT
looking W (270°) from RMC 48.3714
Sol 1018, LMST: 14:54:00
Map showing location and distance of #Perseverance from the crash site of the #SkyCrane . Pink and maroon markers are other fragments or marks from the crash.
... and the image with the marks from landing 69 (when it arrives) is going to make this regolith ripple the most visited heliport in the known universe 😀 🙃
Map showing the three landings, 67, 68 and 69, on a #HiRISE image.
It may be 1.1km away and not a clear line-of-sight to #Ingenuity, but it sure is open space and a beautiful scene of Neretva Vallis. Images from #Flight68 should now be easier to receive. That is, if the flight happened on Saturday, as planned.
Processed, undistorted, leveled, cropped NAVCAM_LEFT, looking WNW (293°) from RMC 47.4374
Sol 999, LMST: 14:37:12
Map showing the field-of-view of the RTE camera when #Ingenuity captured the image above. Drawn with #QGIS using data from #NASA's #MMGIS and imagery from #USGS, #HiRISE
Sol 997: #Perseverance moved to a new location, RMC 47.2396. The rover appears as if heading back to Jurabi Point, although the anticipated rock samples have not been acquired yet. The black dashed line shows a possible return path.