It's hard to tell, but it looks like the GRS was partly visible hitting the evening terminator during the first approach images (JNCE_2022229_44C00029_V01, down at the bottom limb).

Wasn't this issue addressed in the recent media briefing?

question comes from kenneth king with new york times your line is now open
How is this going to affect perseverance um
mission and where would the notional landing spot be? would it be outside the crater because that's where percy would be heading to
or would would you double back...

the basic plan for for perseverance is to continue to do the jezero delta
campaign that they're in right now and acquire a set of samples over the next few months which will likely be put into a first depot on the surface sometime later this year
as as a sort of insurance policy you might say and then after that
drive up through the rest of the jezero delta and then
eventually leave the crater and go on to the midway site which is some of the more ancient terrain on mars and
and in that case it would continue to acquire samples through that whole time frame and so in
fact we could land srl out wherever
perseverance ends up and the intent is that it not come back to jezero in
that case.

i think the main idea is that
we don't really we haven't actually changed anything about planning for where the samples depot so the
first depot is most likely is going to be in a few months time within jezero crater as an
insurance policy and then we'll carry the rest of the samples and i mean perseverance has
been collecting duplicate samples which means that there'll be a set of rock
cores on board that will be duplicates of the ones that are going to be deposited within jezero and we'll carry
those out with it towards midway and continue collecting.

...deep roots in the Mars science community and likely knows much that isn't public.

Space.com has an article where a leading Mars researcher, Jack Mustard, says that the new plan to have Perseverance deliver the collected samples to the sample return lander will mean that it can't leave Jezero Crater to continue the long expected extended mission to explore Nili Planum (the Midway site)...

...predicting visibility of GRS is above my pay grade.

Judging from the (admittedly low-quality) image in the release, the end does not exactly look like it has 'fingers'. I expect that we will have more details to come in the coming months, with further reviews...

Looks like the arm will directly retrieve them from Perseverance, somehow.

This refined concept for the Mars Sample Return campaign was presented to the delegates from the 22 participating states of Europe’s space exploration program, Terrae Novae, in May. At their next meeting in September, the states will consider the discontinuation of the development of the Sample Fetch Rover.

I look forward to seeing the images.

I think I have seen it is 200 times more sensitive that NAC.

I thought it was implied that they'll somewhat bank on Perseverance itself as the backup...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT (8 a.m. PDT) on Wednesday, July 27, to discuss the architecture for its Mars Sample Return campaign.

NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency) recently held a systems requirement review as part of the Mars Sample Return campaign’s conceptual design phase – a phase when the architecture is refined and solidified. The briefing will present the architecture proposal that is expected to be finalized in September 2022.

I think the concept is viable...

To complete the additional NASA-mandated tests of the Griffin lunar lander, an additional $67.8 million has been added to Astrobotic’s CLPS contract, which now totals $320.4 million.

Yes indeed it is a gap, though I wonder about the bowling pin shaped feature within.

NASA announced Friday the Psyche asteroid mission, the agency’s first mission designed to study a metal-rich asteroid, will not make its planned 2022 launch attempt.

Due to the late delivery of the spacecraft’s flight software and testing equipment, NASA does not have sufficient time to complete the testing needed ahead of its remaining launch period this year, which ends on Oct. 11. The mission team needs more time to ensure that the software will function properly in flight...

“NASA takes the cost and schedule commitments of its projects and programs very seriously,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “We are exploring options for the mission in the context of the Discovery Program, and a decision on the path forward will be made in the coming months.”

... it would be a very interesting and good idea to take at least one test image with lossless compression over the highly photogenic area near latitude ~40 deg north.

Though we are only speculating on why it was hush-hush for so long.