The Top of Vera Rubin Ridge Part 2, Site 67-73, sol 1944-2297, 24 Jan 2018-22 Jan 2019 Options

[PaulH51]

Drive on 2255, a rather nice end-of-drive NavCam 360 is already down, sadly MS ICE cant handle them, huge pity as it contains this rather scenic top tier set

[Ant103]

Sol 2255 Navcam panoramic, with -yes Paul- a beautiful scenery there :

[PaulH51]

Sol 2255 Navcam panoramic

Even more scenic than I imagined, thanks Damia

[fredk]

DD on 2238:

[Phil Stooke]

These are Damia's last two panoramas in circular form showing the rover surroundings in a more map-like format.

Phil

sol 2252:



sol 2255:

[wildespace]

What are these two parallel streaks visible in Navcam Sol 2255 images? https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?r...91M_&s=2255 (near the centre of the image)

Doesn't look like rover tracks.

[Phil Stooke]

Look at the panorama from that sol which Damia has posted at the top of this page. There are tracks all over the place, old and new. That darker spot with parallel lines in it is similar to occasional spots elsewhere with fragments of tracks like that - some show zigzag tracks, others are short sections of parallel lines. Especially, look in the foreground below that dark spot where faint tracks from a previous sol show up in the gravelly soil. I think your darker spot is just a small patch of sand in the gravelly surface which happens to capture a short section of track with parallel imprints. The rest of the track is less defined in the gravel, but that bit stands out.

Phil

[jvandriel]

Nice Navcam view on Sol 2255.

Jan van Driel

[fredk]

We're seeing occasional clouds passing overhead - here's an example (heavily stretched) from 2234:

[charborob]

Sol 2257 Lmastcam view of work target "Rock Hall":

[elakdawalla]

Hmm, looks potentially drillable! The thing to look out for will be whether the drill leaves a mark after a preload test.

[jvandriel]

The Navcam L view on Sol 2256.

Jan van Driel

[jvandriel]

The Navcam L view on Sol 2257.

Jan van Driel

[fredk]

DD/gust action on 2256. It looks like we can see a distant one develop perhaps almost from the start. At the end we get a large gust close to us that's easily visible on the original frames, so these stretched versions go off the scale:

(The early ones are pretty subtle so are easier to see in these difference plots, rather than summed to the original frames.)

[PaulH51]

Sol 2261: Another hole in Mars, but is it deep enough to have obtained a sample? It's not full depth, but there may be a small amount in the sleeve? Fingers crossed.