Perseverance Lands In Jezero Crater, Sol 0-14 Options

[Marcin600]

"Mission controllers (...) have received the first status report from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter": https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8867/nasas-mars-...ter-reports-in/
"... both the helicopter, which will remain attached to the rover for 30 to 60 days, and its base station (...) are operating as expected..."

[JRehling]

The rear left hazcam shows one pronounced but small dune nearby. It also shows what appears to be a single streamer of a cloud in the sky.

[Marvin]

Interesting to see material already in the wheels, blown in from the landing thrusters.

Yeah, I thought I saw some in an earlier image. I wonder if there's any material on the top deck?

I'm really impressed by the new wheel design:



"Made of titanium tubing formed with the same process used to make high-end mountain bike frames."

The MMRTG power source has an operational life of 14 years. So if they take care of it, this rover could last for years and years.

[fredk]

And we're continuing to see pngs, even with the Bayered images! So we can now trivially deBayer, without having to deal with jpeg artifacts, at least with the hazcams:

[Tom Ames]

Re. the front Hazcams: is "A" the outboard of each L/R pair and "B" inboard?

[machi]

Quick panorama from the rear Hazcam.

[djellison]

Re. the front Hazcams: is "A" the outboard of each L/R pair and "B" inboard?

A is the pair connected to the A flight computer, and B is the pair connected to the B flight computer

Image from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00765-9

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[djellison]

I genuinely have no insider info for M2020 ECAM stuff - I'm guessing like everyone else - but it would appear....

Mars_Perseverance_RLB_0002_0667129492_604ECM_N0010052AUT_04096_00_2I3J01
Mars_Perseverance_RLG_0002_0667129481_373ECM_N0010052AUT_04096_00_2I3J01
Mars_Perseverance_RLR_0002_0667129466_057ECM_N0010052AUT_04096_00_2I3J01

Stack to an RGB image...... RLB being the Blue, RLG being the Green etc etc

Images like Mars_Perseverance_FRE_0000_0666958359_772ECM_N0010052AUT_04096_00_0LLJ01 - the E is raw and needs to be debayered ( I used Fitswork )

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[erwan]

Doug thats works indeed.
Here is the corresponding rear right hazcam image. I think we see the delta remnants as a long mesa, between the plain in the foreground and the crater rim high hills in the background.

[Greenish]

Hopefully of use to folks here! A query that returns JSON for the raws.

The full URL is https://mars.nasa.gov/rss/api/?feed=raw_ima...;&extended=

[machi]

Thank you Doug for your remarks about colors!

Here is color panorama from rear Hazcam (Sol 2).

[erwan]

and here is the D2 front left hazcam in color

[Bill Harris]

Wasn't the European mission to a comet was criticized for holding back data from public release? Their excuse was that their academic institutional partners wanted to see it first. Some academics just hate releasing information to the public because they would rather get the credit when their papers are published. Its a stupid system.

Not really. Academia is driven by "publish or perish" and the people doing the science need to have first dibs on the data. We can wait; the Universe will be around for a while.

--Bill

[PaulH51]

Fresh pasture at last!
Interesting to see material already in the wheels, blown in from the landing thrusters.

And no Morse code holes for them to escape. Should be nicely polished in there are a few years time

[tdemko]

Could the vesicular-looking loose rocks on the surface be eolian weathering of regolith from a vuggy bedrock, with the vugs filled with a softer mineral and subsequently weathered out?

Maybe chicken-wire gypsum or some other evaporite sulfate?

The fresher looking bedrock looks like it is structureless and mottled at the hazcam resolution.