Looks like landing sideways is a trend for landers in 2024....

So, does anyone have a prognosis here? How likely does it seem that we'll get Voyager back?

Yeah, nice and smooth, with no sign of flicker. What equipment do you use and what do you use to control the camera?

A seek-and-find picture, taken by Perseverance on sol 732. Where is Ingenuity?

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1221 pixles from left, 205 pixels from top

Bonjour,

I also think that this is what it is all about.

I think I understood that this method is made to facilitate the operations of recovery of the tubes.

The helicopters would land on the area and then have to roll by each tube to position themselves properly to allow their robotic arm grippers to pick them up and carry them one by one to the Mars Ascent Vehicle. It is therefore necessary to have enough space between the sample tubes to allow these maneuvers.

We can remember that initially, it was envisaged that a rover (Sample Fetch rover) would pick up and bring back the sample tubes.

NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander After Years Of Science

Farewell, little probe, and thank you!

Perseverance has recorded the sound of a dust devil moving over the Rover. It recorded not only the wind, but also the impacts of individual dust grains, bringing forward a new parameter to measure: dust grains.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35100-z

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