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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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65dBnoise, to space
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Freshly crushed Martian rocks for supper.

Late evening shadows always make for interesting captures.

Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking SSW (194°) from RMC 51.0000
Sol 1091, LMST: 15:24:25

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01091/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1091_0763804166_139EBY_N0510000ZCAM09109_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

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The Rock

Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 63mm
looking from RMC 50.1534
Sol 1066, LMST: 13:04:13

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01066/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1066_0761576153_863EBY_N0501534ZCAM09085_0630LMJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

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On Sol 1106 #Perseverance 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 (270°) 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: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

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65dBnoise, to abc
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Meanwhile, in the rest of the Western world:

ABC exiting Twitter: Australia’s national broadcaster shuts down almost all accounts on Elon Musk’s X

“We also found that closing individual program accounts helps limit the exposure of team members to the toxic interactions that unfortunately are becoming more prevalent on X,”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/09/abc-australia-leaves-twitter-x-elon-musk

exiting , 's

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Here is a better interview of Geoffrey Hinton on PBS News Hour, where he articulates his concerns better and in more words. IMO there are still huge leaps of logic in his belief that these systems have "understanding" and can be dangerous on their own, i.e. without humans programming and setting goals for them, which gets the tech giants creating them (and gaining enormous political power) off the hook, as if suddenly dropped from the sky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAgQWnD31nE

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#Perseverance 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 (342°) 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: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

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The weather in Jezero, Mars, according to the instrument aboard .

Report Sol: 1023
Ls: 176

Temperature ranges in the past 10 sols:
Highs: -11.3 to -5.1°C
Lows: -74.7 to -71.1°C

-5.1°C on Sol 1018 seems to be this year's highest temperature, excluding the gap during the conjunction. Atmospheric pressure has been increasing rapidly, in par with the increase during the same period of the last Martian year.

IANAM

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New 30m drive and new location for on Sol 1114, RMC 51.2990, the closest so far to , just 360m south of it, and very close to the edge of the south Neretva Vallis riverbank.

Made with and data from 's and ,

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Piercing through the haze of those faint ocher images captured on Sol 792, and just downlinked, reveals the eastern rim of Jezero Crater and the summit of Jezero Mons.

Animated color processing.Map follows.

Processed, rotated MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 792, RMC: 39.0926, LMST: 14:38:02
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00792/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_0792_0737257724_831EBY_N0390926ZCAM08817_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

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Good night America.

(Screenshot from MSNBC news from Florida)

is a real possibility, and

65dBnoise, to space
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Welcome to Kalavryta (Καλάβρυτα)!

is now in the "Kalavryta Quad," named after a town in Greece, in northern Peloponnese, about 130km west of Athens and near the Chelmos-Vouraikos UNESCO Global Geopark, a region that consists of 40 unique geological sites including caves, karstic springs, rivers, alpine lakes, and fossil sites.

One of its next targets is the ‘Balcony of Styx.’

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/9422/sols-3866-3867-welcome-to-kalavryta/

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-updates/9424/sols-3868-3870-not-again-mars/

65dBnoise, (edited ) to space
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Looks like some rocks around this area had an outer layer harder than their interior, like a shell, parts of which stayed in place while the interior eroded.

But, IANAG™ = I Am Not A Geologist

Processed, leveled MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 866, RMC: 42.0000, LMST: 11:53:25
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00866/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0866_0743816843_409EBY_N0420000ZCAM08871_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

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These days, "several minutes" of weightlessness in a suborbital flight as a tourist, makes you an "astronaut". Multiply that by 60, and it already sounds a lot better: "several hundred seconds of weightlessness"!

Being part of a publicity stunt means those "astronauts" have to make a few statements to the press, like "space is really becoming more accessible", whether they or anybody else believes that.

Whatever.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/10/vigin-galactic-space-flight-vss-unity-landing

#hype #sarcasm

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What is proper to say for , an anthropomorphism but nonetheless an expression of love, is that it stayed in the battlefield erect and functioning until the very end.

The is still alive, and we'll probably be hearing about it for as long as it has power to transmit its beacon and continues to devote a few minutes of 's time every sol to listening for it, which may be well into Martian autumn.

What a journey this has been!

65dBnoise, (edited ) to Israel
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So not only stops humanitarian aid from being distributed to Palestinians in , not only murders children and civilians, annihilates hospitals and infrastructure, but also kills the cooks who go there trying to feed starving kids? And whoever criticizes this Nazi-like war criminality is silenced as an anti-Semite?

The Goebbels inspired propaganda machine has worked wonders, it seems. At the expense of the Holocaust and Jews worldwide.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war

65dBnoise, (edited ) to space
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From a 500m high spot on Jezero's rim, an Ingenuity class SRH with the same Zigbee radio as the one now installed on the will be able to have workable radio links with the SRL or within a ~14km LOS radius, using the same type antennas as the quarter wave monopoles now in use. This means that the scouting range of the two MSR SRHs can be about 1/3 of Jezero's diameter, a vast area compared to what the heli can do now.

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It appears is looking for its lost rock sample. The fragment (not necessarily from the sample) seen here just above center is ~7mm in size and 2.5m away from the camera.

Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking ESE (118°) from RMC 51.0000
Sol 1087, LMST: 10:42:07

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01087/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1087_0763431673_583EBY_N0510000ZCAM09104_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

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(🤫 This is @65dBnoise's Little Assistant. I woke up secretely to report that flew on Sol 894, as planned. Notice the early LMST! Now back to sleep 🙂)

Quickly processed undistorted, cropped HELI_RTE
Sol: 894, RMC: 56.0001, LMST: 11:06:04
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00894/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_0894_0746299671_058ECM_N0560001HELI00000_000085J01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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🧵 It feels inappropriate to argue on such matters on a Day of Remembrance, but since such a day became a stage for distorting truth and the essence of the , it seems necessary to do so.

In his speech Biden drew a parallel, comparing murdering 6000000 during the Holocaust to ' 1200 Israeli victims during the Oct 7 attack. That was a x5000 stretch of truth and logic, without counting the 35000+ victims of horrible thirty-eyes-for-an-eye retaliation,

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"[T]he three “levers” of overshoot: consumption, waste and population.
[...] “Overshoot” refers to how many Earths human society is using up to sustain – or grow – itself. Humanity would currently need 1.7 Earths to maintain consumption [...]"

The whole article never mentions the word "capitalism", even in passing, but identifies “behavioural influencers” such as screenwriters, web developers and algorithm engineers, all of whom are promoting certain social norms 🙄

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists

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's jumped 20m high in and here the shadow shows its blades as if they were moving in slow motion:

Animation

Processed, undistorted HELI_NAV
Sol: 915, RMC: 59.0001, LMST: 11:07:39
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00915/ids/edr/browse/heli/HNM_0915_0748164034_766ECM_N0590001HELI04609_0000A0J01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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This view to the west most probably contains 's 64th landing.

Processed with the palette and mood. Details and maps follow.

Looking WNW (282°) from RMC 46.3032
Sol 955, LMST: 12:40:29

MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00955/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0955_0751720727_488EBY_N0463032ZCAM08974_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

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Fascinating story about how the system #Scout predicted the impact of small (1m) asteroid 2024 BX1 on Earth, in Germany.

The asteroid was first observed less than three hours before its impact by Krisztián Sárneczky at Piszkéstető Mountain Station of the Konkoly Observatory near Budapest, Hungary.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-system-predicts-impact-of-a-very-small-asteroid-over-germany

#Asteroid #Solarocks #Space

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stopped to capture images of as soon as it had line-of-sight to the , not a second later. The map says it all:

Map shows the mid-of-drive location where Perseverance spotted Ingenuity from. Areas without LOS are darker.

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Imagine this isn't but something 10 times bigger and centuries later, and the operation isn't abrading a rock for science, but surface mining Mars for profit. Is that ? Or is it just the ugly future for Mars?

Processed, leveled, cropped FRONT_HAZCAM_LEFT_A
looking N (10°) from RMC 50.1618
Sol 1080, LMST: 12:50:23

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01080/ids/edr/browse/fcam/FLF_1080_0762818163_942ECM_N0501618FHAZ00215_04_090J01.png
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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