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When the Ingenuity helicopter made its 5th flight last Friday, two faint dust devils were recorded in the same field of view !
They were located well behind Ingenuity. Enjoy 
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May 11 2021, 04:53 AM
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May 11 2021, 01:40 PM
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Sol 78 LMastcam-Z panorama:
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May 12 2021, 10:30 AM
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The MastCam-Z panorama taken Sol 78 is gorgeous.
Here is a section processed in 3D. Look at all those rolling ridges with rocks perched on top of sand dunes. This is the very romantic view of Mars "a la Bradbury " we all love to see! What a great camera the MastCam-Z is ! =>> I hope, they will soon take a similar panoramic picture, but at sunrise and/or at sunset with looooooong shadows which makes the landscape even more beautiful and the relief come out even better  CONGRATULATIONS to the MastCam-Z team Enjoy
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May 12 2021, 05:15 PM
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QUOTE (neo56 @ May 12 2021, 05:48 PM)  My take on this awesome shot of Ingenuity in front of two distant dust devils, and in animation. Congratulations Thomas for this nice work of yours  |
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May 13 2021, 06:32 AM
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I'm assuming that this was a 'characterization test' of the rover's arm at a 'teach-point' in front of the rover, with what appears very similar to the canned bricks of organic check material carried by Curiosity (but sadly not used so far)
If that assumption is correct I guess they could puncture the can and return a sample to earth in a sealed sample tube to ensure there were no earthly organics in it as a cross check, if so it could be the first sample acquired / cached? Or it could be like MSL, only to be used in the event PIXL detects organics? Does anyone know if either of those assumption are correct? Google search using organic check material etc has failed to provide an answer for this rover.
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May 13 2021, 08:36 AM
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QUOTE (vikingmars @ May 12 2021, 12:30 PM) The MastCam-Z panorama taken Sol 78 is gorgeous. Larger panorama to show the above section in a larger context 3D. Enjoy
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May 14 2021, 10:01 AM
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Nice anaglyph Olivier!
Here is a photomontage of SuperCam/RMI and MCZ-L pictures taken on sol 80. 
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May 15 2021, 05:31 PM
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sherloc context imager return some curious pictures of a somewhat textured stone, like a fabric, see sol 83
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May 15 2021, 05:36 PM
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I don't see it 15 minutes earlier. Maybe something happened.
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May 15 2021, 05:53 PM
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It's just possible something happened....
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/pdf/2839.pdf "Survey mode. Initial observations will be performed on an abraded patch in survey mode. The laser will fire raster over a 7x7 mm area with 200μm spacing to gen- erate 1225 spectra arranged in a 35x35 point grid. A Raman/fluorescence spectrum is acquired within 1 sec at each point. These spectra can be averaged together to get bulk organic/mineral abundances over the entire scanned area." |
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May 15 2021, 06:01 PM
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QUOTE (Deimos @ May 15 2021, 05:36 PM) I don't see it 15 minutes earlier. Maybe something happened. Thank you Deimos, you are right. Maybe some turret's hardware foot print ? (from sherloc ACI itself ? ; by the way, I presume we see three laser holes on the right of larges pictures). -------------------- Erwann |
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May 15 2021, 06:11 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ May 15 2021, 05:53 PM) It's just possible something happened.... https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2017/pdf/2839.pdf "Survey mode. Initial observations will be performed on an abraded patch in survey mode. The laser will fire raster over a 7x7 mm area with 200μm spacing to gen- erate 1225 spectra arranged in a 35x35 point grid. A Raman/fluorescence spectrum is acquired within 1 sec at each point. These spectra can be averaged together to get bulk organic/mineral abundances over the entire scanned area." A 35 x 35 point grid ! Doug thank you. that is certainly the 'fabric', and on the right it's probably 3 laser holes from chemcam... -------------------- Erwann |
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May 16 2021, 05:48 AM
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Sol 84: L-NavCam looking back after a short drive (West) to site number 4
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May 16 2021, 06:40 AM
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Sol 82 early morning MastCam-Z pictures in 3D.
I wish that a sunrise or a sunset panorama will be taken soon in color and in 3D : this would be gorgeous to see !
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