#Perseverance had to clear a low mound SW of it so that it could continue on its painstaking westward path. Tosol's drive brought it to RMC 51.4014, where it stopped, not surprisingly, at a low regolith ripple. #Ingenuity is visible.
Processed, rotated, cropped REAR_HAZCAM_RIGHT
looking from RMC 51.4014
Sol 1118, LMST: 12:23:09
New location RMC 51.3688 on Sol 1117. #Perseverance made up its mind and … followed my predicted route 🤓 😜 around the low rocky mound that lies to the southwest. #Ingenuity should be visible from this new location.
Processed, undistorted, leveled NAVCAM_LEFT
looking W (272°) from RMC 51.3688
Sol 1117, LMST: 13:45:18
#Ingenuity is indeed visible from the new location at RMC 51.3688. Especially the marks from its first bounce upon landing of #Flight72 should now be visible from a very favorable new angle, although of course not in this wide angle NAVCAM image.
Processed, leveled NAVCAM_RIGHT
looking NNE (24°) from RMC 51.3354
Sol 1116, LMST: 15:58:19
On the move again, #Perseverance covered another 50m to the west, and stopped as usual amidst a regolith ripple. #Ingenuity should be marginally visible from this new location.
On Sol 1115 #Perseverance moved yet again to a new location, RMC 51.3152, 50m down the predicted path, and stopped again at the middle of a regolith ripple. It's now ~400m S of #Ingenuity which is hidden from view. No SUPERCAM image of the #MarsHelicopter has been downlinked yet.
Processed, undistorted, leveled NAVCAM_RIGHT mosaic
looking NNW (327°) from RMC 51.3152
Sol 1115, LMST: 13:11:43
New 30m drive and new location for #Perseverance on Sol 1114, RMC 51.2990, the closest so far to #Ingenuity, just 360m south of it, and very close to the edge of the south Neretva Vallis riverbank.
Not as easy to get there, as it may appear at a first glance. Lots of loose regolith. Can the rover afford to say "we're going to cross that bridge when we get there"?
Where's that bridge? 🙃 😀
Processed, rotated MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking W (276°) from RMC 51.2794
Sol 1112, LMST: 12:22:51
Coyote, a stowaway on the spaceship Ares that brought the First Hundred to Mars, was a prominent figure of the underground resistance in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy.
Here we see one of his hideouts, on the other side of the Neretva Vallis riverbank 🙃 🤣
This is the terrain #Perseverance will have to cross sooner of later: the rocky foreground in the immediate future, the sandy background when it returns from the trip to Bright Angel and starts ascending Jezero's rim, maybe some time around this coming Terran fall.
Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking WSW (241°) from RMC 51.2578
Sol 1110, LMST: 11:45:52
There is very little known about #Flight71, the one that preceded the final, both in details about the flight itself but also about its troublesome landing and its exact location. #Ingenuity's flight log does not yet list distances. AFAICT it has been assumed to be ~10m east of landing 72. Images that just arrived show nothing visible in that area, though they show what seems to be a recent disturbance ~50m ENE. More images are obviously needed 2b sure.