A change of plans?
#Perseverance's team appears to have changed their mind and had the rover make a sharp turn toward the east.
Which, I speculate, seems to indicate an intention to return to the planned route. And I back this speculation with a prediction for the path (white dense-stitched line) π€
Using #QGIS for the map with data from #NASA's #MMGIS, #HiRISE and #USGS
Just as we (well, I) thought that #Perseverance was headed back to the planned route, its team decided it should have another go at that rugged terrain west of Lac De Charmes.
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Weekend traveler #Perseverance has set course to get back to the planned (dashed) route, it seems.
New location, Sol: 1896, RMC: 88.5126. The path shown is a guess. Map made using #QGIS, #NASA's #MMGIS, #HiRISE and #USGS
It's Monday on Terra, 02:25 LMST and Lβ 301.4 on Mars, and this morning finds #Perseverance at a new location ~256m to the SW of yestersol's location.
Mars doesn't have a calendar yet AFAIK, so it must be Monday there too. Dealing with calendars is going to be a lot of "fun" if ever humans live on other planets.
Used #QGIS to make the map, with data from #NASA's #MMGIS and #USGS.
The path shown is a guess.
#Perseverance moved a little again. These days a simple detour around a regolith bump seems to be a real feat for the rover, and to take ages to plan and complete.
Oh, then⦠maybe that Visual Language Model, a.k.a. "AI" is involved again? That could explain the extreme caution of the operators that we are witnessing.
But that's just speculation. We've been living in the dark since the team's last report in December last year.
Relocated to examine a nearby rock
Soft rock, hard rock, slow rock.
Rocking and rolling on Mars.
Processed, undistorted, leveled NAVCAM_RIGHT mosaic
looking ESE (122Β°) from RMC 87.4084
Sol 1819, LMST: 15:47:12
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01819/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NRF_1819_0828433449_035ECM_N0874084NCAM03819_04_195J01.png
#Perseverance either drove into a dead end and is now surrounded by heaps of sand, or found something interesting there, which we don't see yetβ¦
Over-processed to show sand patterns, undistorted, leveled, cropped NAVCAM_RIGHT
looking ENE (71Β°) from RMC 82.2866
Sol 1704, LMST: 12:36:19
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
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After a very long stay at Pine Pond #Perseverance has now moved further down hill, apparently reaching the bottom of the Witch Hazel Hill area, where it has spent the last 120 sols examining rocks.
The path shown is a guess. Elevations are from the Octavia E. Butler landing location.
The map was made in #QGIS, using #NASA's #MMGIS and #HiRISE and #USGS imagery and DTMs.
#Perseverance has now arrived at the area called Broom's Point.
Tosol is Sol 1435 of the #Mars2020 mission, Lβ is 52.1, and the local time in Jezero Crater is now 18:21.
The map was made with #QGIS and data from #NASA's #MMGIS, #HiRISE and #USGS
Processed, leveled, cropped NAVCAM_RIGHT mosaic
looking NNW (332Β°) from RMC 69.2124
Sol 1435, LMST: 13:51:34
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
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