The latest images from Perseverance's navigation camera, processed by Holger Isenberg

We're getting a pretty decent view of Belva Crater now, the level of dust in Jezero may well have decreased...

#Mars Dec. 3, 2024 (Sol 1347)
📷 https://areo.info/mars20/ecams/1347/
🗺️ https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/location-map/

#Perseverance #rover #Sol1347 #PerseveranceRover #Belva #crater #BelvaCrater #JezeroCrater #Astrodon #geology #Mars2020 #RimCampaign #RimScience #science #STEM #dust

As if there wasn't enough jaw-dropping solsys imagery today, here's @NeV_T 's mosaic from tosol's #PerseveranceRover mastcams covering #BelvaCrater

http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/232283

including a good look at the other distant large elevated crater rim on eastern #JezeroCrater (unnamed?), south of #HartwellCrater

One surprising thing for me is how subdued the eastern rim of #BelvaCrater is, compared to the other walls. I wasn't expecting that from looking at the map, but it could be intuited from the recent glimpses that #PerseveranceRover acquired on the way here.

There's three named craters in this pic: #JezeroCrater obviously, Belva and #HartwellCrater in the background

Rotated and cropped from https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/NRF_0768_0735125669_535ECM_N0390000NCAM03768_01_195J

More #BelvaCrater inner wall perspectives, from NeV-T sol 737 gigapan

https://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/232011

and some estimates of what we are seeing of the crater, with help from the mission's interactive map

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/where-is-the-rover/

#PerseveranceRover

Short from #LSPC2023, giving some context for where #PerseveranceRover is right now and where it's heading. Also some stuff on #BelvaCrater

Kronyak et al: GEOMORPHOLOGY AND RELATIVE AGES OF CHANNEL BELT DEPOSITS IN JEZERO’S WESTERN DELTA

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2023/pdf/2067.pdf

h/t @65dBnoise

I was looking at the latest great gigapan by NeV-T, and isn't this the deepest reaching view of the #BelvaCrater inner wall we are going to get from #PerseveranceRover ?

https://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/231976

(what does one call geolocation on Mars? 🙃 )