@65dBnoise yeah, quite a lot of photographing on just this rock, I wonder if the contact exposure has given some organics signature or something #PDSAnalystNotebook
You meant that apparent #LeopardSpots right? Maybe a coincidence, it being the only clear one. But it's also there in the night pic (https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/SIF_1465_0797024818_031EBY_N0710160SRLC08029_0000LMJ) and with some other spot-like thingies around, although maybe artefacts.
Poster on #FreyaCastle / "zebra rock". Not sure if we can see which one is #KautzCreek without the #PDSAnalystNotebook perhaps.
Klidaras et al: "The Enigma of "Zebra Rock": A Banded Rock Discovered on the Jezero Crater Rim"
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/pdf/2014.pdf
"Gaze through ancient lines / Secrets buried deep in time / Zebra stripes of Mars."
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I'm sure the team would have loved to spread the news, if it was them who decided on PR.
Yes, they said the all engineering data, telemetry etc, will be in the PDS within 6 months or so.
It's interesting that the heli hasn't stopped communicating. No brownouts during the winter anymore? If that's what happened, what was draining the batteries before?
That's reason for one more #PDSAnalystNotebook tag :-)
We might as well now say goodbye to #Ingenuity, for it will be very long till #Perseverance has an opportunity to be in radio range with the #MarsHelicopter again, or have a line-of-sight to it.
As seen in the map, this is the closest the rover will get to the heli being visible (light toned area) for several years.
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Sol 1259 is the last sol in this new release of the PDS data.
The #PDSAnalystNotebook webpage is here:
https://an.rsl.wustl.edu/m20/AN/an3.aspx
To start reading the data, choose Sol on the left panel and unfold the items under each Sol that will appear there.
More news about #Ingenuity ๐
The new PDS release is now loaded on the #PDSAnalystNotebook, and there's tons of interesting details in there.
One intriguing detail is that there is activity regarding the #MarsHelicopter as late as Sol 1255:
Sol 1256 2024-09-01 Helicopter transfer
Sol 1237 2024-08-12 Helicopter Comm Check
Sol 1223 2024-07-29 Helicopter Check In
Sol 1214 2024-07-20 Helicopter Check-in
Apparently #NASA have not abandoned the little heli ๐
#NASA's Planetary Data System (#PDS) Release 11 was published today. It includes raw, calibrated, and derived data from Sols 1140 through 1259, May 4, 2024 - September 3, 2024
The #PDSAnalystNotebook has not been updated yet.
PDS page:
https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/mars2020/
PDS Analyst Notebook for #Perseverance:
https://an.rsl.wustl.edu/m20/AN/an3.aspx
The official traverse seems to confirm that #Perseverance had some difficulty driving uphill. The rover seems to have tried 3 times to go straight uphill (~15ยฐ slope), but resorted to sideways movement in the end. The final segment probably shows the max slope (~12ยฐ) it can successfully climb on this particular terrain.
Leaving a #PDSAnalystNotebook tag here to check in due time to see if that was indeed the case.
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