Are you talking about that Watson sensor crud that's in every Watson image?

Interesting how the fine dust sticks to things.

Thanks for the feedback.

Is the launch point going to be in one of the scour marks from the descent stage's engines? Might be less dusty....

Here's my rough and ready mosaic of the 8 overlapping frames of the Sol 22 ejected Belly Pan that protected the sampling system bay during the later part of EDL.
De-Bayer (GIMP) stitched (MS-ICE)

Anyone know if "nylon" zip ties have been used on previous rovers or if they are new to Perseverance?

Do we have any insight as to why the small deltaic remnants exist at such a distance from the main delta front? Did they move somehow from where they were emplaced? What could cause the significant and remarkably complete (scoured clean down to the top of the underlying unit) erosion of the delta material and what saved these remnants which are presumably analogues of the main delta. Could they have been islands in the lake?

The Raw page has several types of images and cameras. I did not see listed the SuperCam (Perseverence ChemCam). Will these images eventually find their way to the raw page?

Not sure about the morphing of Perseverance to Percy. For me the rovers, like ships, have all been female and Perseverance's role is a gatherer, traditionally a female role.

“But perhaps the most visible change is in the grousers. They are ten percent taller and run across the width of the wheel in a near straight line. It’s got a slight curvature to it to help give some strength to it,” says JPL engineer Patrick DeGrosse.

Been wondering about that too. To make them stronger than straight lines would? Curiosity's were more like the design in most tires, but then inverted; raised rims instead of grooves.

Hi Steve. They just had a press conference and image release on the mission website which includes this:

They will decide soon which of the two paths to take, but they seemed to prefer the clockwise path out of the landing area. Later it meets up with the nominal path through the delta.

Phil

...Percy can't pick them up to deliver them to the MAV.

A portion of a possible traverse that would examine some really interesting features:..