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65dBnoise

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Electrical engineer
Marveling at the world

Lots of Martian rocks and landscapes, some looking all too familiar, but don't be fooled by that: Mars is an inhospitable toxic planet. Let's not mistake fiction for reality.

I like dirt and rocks, but I Am Not A Geologist (IANAG).

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So this question arises: if the plan for was to scout and cover 203m of ground, why did it do a straight line flight of only 142m? Even if this is a preliminary localization, still the flight seems rather abnormal.

65dBnoise, (edited ) to space
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It looks like they are trying to image the with the telescope, as we all expected 🤩

EDIT: The images are aimed at the direction of , i.e. 319°, albeit a little to the south of it.

Heavily processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking NW (320°) from RMC 50.1534
Sol 1068, LMST: 10:21:05

Have a look at the originals:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01068/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1068_0761743679_302EBY_N0501534SCAM01068_0010I9J01.png
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01068/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1068_0761744012_302EBY_N0501534SCAM01068_0040I9J01.png

Credit: /JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/65dBnoise
Background image 3 credit: @stim3on

65dBnoise, to space
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During the coming solar conjunction of Mars, and the moratorium in communications, will use its color camera to study the movement of sand, which poses an ever-present challenge to Mars missions.

The moratorium will last from Nov 11 to 25. More about what the spacecrafts will do on Mars during this time, here:
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9512/nasas-mars-fleet-will-still-conduct-science-while-lying-low/

65dBnoise, to random
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It seems strange to me that there aren't any other scuffs in the regolith made by the rotors when they supposedly hit the ground.

Here is a theory:

• The blades disintegrated in mid-air.
• The scuffs we see were not made by the rotors but by the helicopter's feet; it dropped fast, bounced, and then landed at its final location.
• The disintegrated blades spread to pieces so they are not seen around the incident, except for one which flew south, almost intact.

Crude animation:

video/mp4

65dBnoise, (edited ) to random
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Today's dose of hallucination is brought to you by :

? 🤨, ? 🙄

EDIT: the word "hallucination" is probably out of place and misleading here, as @apodoxus argues in this thread. The anthropomorphic connotations of the word may actually create more misconceptions than help eliminate.

65dBnoise, (edited ) to pareidolia
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Martian geology never gets boring 😀

A pan? A sombrero?
(more choices in thread 😂 )

EDIT: finally after 2 days a full image arrived. Replaced the thumbnail with it.
EDIT2: For a 3D version, see @kevinmgill's https://mastodon.social/@kevinmgill@deepspace.social/111052780134184252

Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 907, RMC: 44.2062, LMST: 12:44:36
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00907/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0907_0747459780_910EBY_N0442062ZCAM03761_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

65dBnoise, to space
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Mars.

Processed, leveled, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 880, RMC: 43.0000, LMST: 12:07:17
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00880/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_0880_0745060589_769EBY_N0430000ZCAM08882_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

65dBnoise, (edited ) to random
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Absolute nonsense plans for space generated solar power. IIRC, one of the studies was supposed to be delivered two years ago.

Such huge structures in space will be highly vulnerable to space debris or malicious attacks, to name just two apparently unsolvable security problems. It'll be interesting to see what the numbers say, when comparing the total cost for such a monstrosity with similar plans for solar power generation on the surface of the Earth.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/17/tim-peake-backs-idea-for-solar-farms-in-space-as-costs-fall

65dBnoise, to Israel
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No, you are not 'antisemitic' if you don't agree with what the right wing warmongering Israeli government is doing in . Nor are you pro-Hamas if you care about Palestinians not being treated like subhuman and killed by the thousands. Nor are you anti-American if you don't agree with the hypocrisy of the US government's double speak. You are simply using your judgement to see through the enormous propaganda machine and trying to think like a human of the 21st century.

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Back on Sol 690 we were waiting for to drop the last sample tube at the Three Forks depot and carry on with its plan to drive up the West Jezero Delta. Except... it didn't, for about one week (https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise@fosstodon.org/109774650297831247).

At the time, we suspected that some problem had occurred which was preventing it from proceeding with the plan, and I made a note to follow up on this when the relevant reports would be published in the .

Turns out there was indeed a problem:

65dBnoise, to space
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"The 52nd flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is now in the official mission logbook as a success. The flight took place back on April 26."

It took 63 days to tell us that the heli flew its 63 days ago. I have no words.

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9430/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-phones-home/

65dBnoise, to space
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Has abraded the rock in its workspace, of just... poked it?

Processed NAVCAM_LEFT
Sol: 847, RMC: 41.0000, LMST: 14:48:38
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00847/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NLF_0847_0742140988_784ECM_N0410000NCAM00705_01_095J01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

65dBnoise, to space
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commented that 's team may consider approaching for a visual inspection.

That sounds interesting but is quite risky, as the terrain is difficult and the rover would have to drive up into the Neretva riverbed, and across the regolith megaripple field to get a good visual of the heli, and that's assuming the is still on the top of one of those megaripples.

The maps show visibility and terrain. Contours are 1m.

65dBnoise, to random
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Press conference for 's landing on the Moon has now started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvXLt3ET9mE

65dBnoise, to space
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From time to time 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

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: /JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

65dBnoise, (edited ) to space
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looking across Neretva Valis to the northern rim of Jezero Crater, late in the afternoon.

Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking N (9.5°) from RMC 49.1444
Sol 1041, LMST: 16:02:00

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01041/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1041_0759367761_318EBY_N0491444ZCAM09039_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

65dBnoise, (edited ) to space
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On Sol 998, moved farther southwest about 30m, to RMC 47.3056, apparently back toward Jurabi Point.

The map shows its new estimated location along with the (guessed) path it took and a new prediction for its next drive (green dashed line), just for fans.

This localization is based on metadata from just one image.

EDIT: The path for last drive changed to 'estimate' and is being updated as more metadata become available.

65dBnoise, to space
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Here is wiggling/turning its blades, at 9 AM on Sol 1048.

Animation

Processed, rotated for north up HELI_NAV images played at 5 fpm
Captured from RMC 72.0001/167
Sol 1048, LMST: 09:01:18

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01048/ids/edr/browse/heli/HNM_1048_0759963256_715ECM_N0720001HELI00167_0000LUJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

65dBnoise, (edited ) to space
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That's a first, IIRC!
targeted by the SUPERCAM telescope!

(And hopefully not zapped with the laser 😬)

EDIT: @leplanetolog found an earlier one on Sol 82, from a 110m distance. See it later in this thread.

Processed, leveled according to JSON metadata, cropped SUPERCAM_RMI
Sol: 879, RMC: 43.0000, LMST: 11:49:31
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00879/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_0879_0744970745_266EBY_N0430000SCAM03879_0030I6J01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/65dBnoise

65dBnoise, to space
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Now you see it, now you don't. Soft rocks are hard to get.

As much as Mars geologists wanted to get a sample of this rock, apparently in the end that didn't happen; the fragments got ejected in the process.

also checked if any fragment fell inside the receiving mechanism; seems none did.

Animated processed & cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 813, RMC: 39.1170, LMST: 16:36:48
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00813/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_0813_0739129319_410EBY_N0391170ZCAM05068_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

65dBnoise, (edited ) to space
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A reworked hypothesis about 's last explained with an animation. It is based on a number of assumptions, most of which come out of 's statements.

Animation explained in alt text.

Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking NW (320°) from RMC 50.1534
Sol 1067, LMST: 10:27:39

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01067/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1067_0761655208_206EBY_N0501534ZCAM05186_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

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65dBnoise, to TeslaMotors
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“For Services provided on Mars, or in transit to Mars via Starship or other spacecraft, the parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities,” says SpaceX’s satellite Internet Starlink company, in its terms of service."

The statement is a lie; it's governed by an appropriate nation, in accordance with the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, but wants no laws.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/musk-and-bezos-offer-humanity-a-grim-future-in-space-colonies/

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Listening to 's PM Teddy Tzanetos, live on youtube, who said: ! (We Are Not Dead Yet)

https://www.youtube.com/live/lkZ6jkqPMEc

As I hoped before (https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111823379796757059), he said that they are going to first wiggle the rotor and take a movie (!) of the action, and then slowly spin the rotors to bring the other two blades into view that haven't been visible so far and assess their condition.

Of course is also going to come closer and take a better look to the !

65dBnoise, to scifi
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Why is almost no one in the world talking about ?

Elites aren't talking about it because profits from increased consumption is what drives their policies.

Progressives aren't talking about it, rightfully arguing that the vast majority of Earth's population is NOT responsible for current problems.

Tho, wishing justice, or pretending it'll magically somehow prevail, isn't stopping the problems from skyrocketing; it's just escapism.

If you're into that, does it better 😬

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Moon landing live streaming is ongoing, with excellent technical narration in English, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvXLt3ET9mE

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