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

[PaulH51]

Sounds interesting, I wonder if that procedure can be captured by the mast mounted cameras

[elakdawalla]

Huge improvement Jan

Could be a nice place for a Selfie

Just a note, they won't be able to do anything at all with the arm except deliver sample until they've performed as many sample deliveries as they ever plan to with this sample. They have to keep the drill in this orientation in order to keep the drilled sample from wandering to other parts of the chamber.

[elakdawalla]

Sounds interesting, I wonder if that procedure can be captured by the mast mounted cameras

The cameras have historically not been permitted to watch any sample delivery activities out of fear of dust wafting onto the cameras.

[jvandriel]

Sol 2059

Panorama Chemcam ( drilled hole )

Jan van Driel

[PaulH51]

Thanks Emily, it makes sense to protect the lenses, but I thought I had seen a short MastCam animation of CHIMRA releasing a sample and letting it fall out of frame of the image. Sadly I can't find it, but I think it was several years ago...

Nice RMI mosaic Jan...

IT issues are still preventing me from processing images, but I did spot this pair of sol 2059 R-MastCam frames, they appear to capture 'before & after' delivery images of portions of the Duluth powdered rock (reddish) material to the surface of a rock, as mentioned in the recent mission update:-

https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/ms...676E01_DXXX.jpg

https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/ms...678E01_DXXX.jpg

Follow on images are planned to check if the wind moves the material

[mcaplinger]

I thought I had seen a short MastCam animation of CHIMRA releasing a sample and letting it fall out of frame of the image.

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs...paign-kuhn.html but that was down near the ground or away from the inlets. I don't think we can see the inlets during sample delivery anyway because the view is blocked.

[neo56]

The sol 2059 ChemCam/RMI mosaic colored with a MastCamR photo, in the context of a MastCamL mosaic:

[PaulH51]

The sol 2059 ChemCam/RMI mosaic colored with a MastCamR photo...

Formidable, Merci Thomas

[neo56]

Thanks Paul!

While browsing ChemCam/RMI pics of early May, I figured out that I didn't colore the Red Cliff mosaic. Here it is:

[Phil Stooke]

Stunning! Thanks.

Phil

[anticitizen2]

I enlarged and animated the drilling sequence because I wanted to see all the rivulets and pebbles moving around

gif of 2 frames in the middle of drilling that showed the biggest change. standard ~1:45 between frames



Here is the full sequence compressed with .gifv so it isn't a massive file
copy/paste this link if imgur is trying to redirect to the .mp4: imgur.com/I9ngLhU.gifv

Here is a back/forth of the later frames
imgur.com/yB8kwpg.gifv

edit: bonus 2056 phobos transit

[neo56]

Thanks antcitizen2 for this really nice animations!

Curiosity captured the sunset on sol 2060 with its MastCam 34mm camera. Enjoy the result!

[serpens]

antcitizen2's animation shows that even without hammering there is sufficient vibration of the rock to cause the consolidated dust around the base to slip and the rock to shed particles.

[Phil Stooke]

This image shows where some sample was dumped on the rock near the drill site - I don't do it here, but you can animate before and after pictures taken on sol 2059 to show where the dumped material is. There is very little to see, just scattered particles, not piles of dust as we have seen at other sample dumps.

Phil

[anticitizen2]

thanks for pointing it out, it is definitely hard to spot. link to full size


I also tried some more before/after comparisons with the navcam and mastcam.

I didn't notice this raft of vein material shifting up front in the previously posted hazcam sequence, but I can see it move gradually when I look again
imgur.com/yB8kwpg.gifv


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