Finishing work in and around Seitah, sols 238-378 Options

[Cherurbino]

MEDA was likely given instructions shortly after the rover received them--it is designed to operate autonomously from the main rover computers after that. While there is no real-time application of weather information, Mars is a great place to assume today's weather is yesterday's weather. There are few sols when that fails.

I imagine many details are omitted from the summary in order to fit the perceived needs of a general audience.

The rover communicates with the orbiters overnight, as have rovers and landers over more than two decades when power allows (not a silly question, there have sometimes been obstacles like Opportunity's stuck-on heater and its 'deep-sleep' mode). These are typically brief wake periods as the orbiter is not overhead for long. I am not sure there are technical obstacles to overnight communication with the helicopter, but long chats would require both vehicles to be awake (and maybe heating something). That may be especially stressing for the helicopter.

Thank you Deimos, especially for the links inserted/

[Phil Stooke]

a few new feature names are found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IAcwLYYFGk, about 22 minutes in.

This is a screenshot:



I like the name Port Angeles. If I walk 2 blocks down to Dallas Road I can look across the water at Port Angeles.

Phil

[tau]

. . . . . .
In one of Tau's images it may be my overactive imagination but it looks as if there has been a degree of alteration around a couple of now absent clasts/crystals.
. . . . . .

Well spotted, serpens. It's not your imagination, it's the laser.
The alteration of the coating occured on sol 345 between 13:07 and 13:20 local mean solar time.
Here is a comparison of images before and after the laser impacts.
The laser holes are about 0.2 mm in diameter. The radius of the altered zones around the holes is about 0.5 mm (in words: half a millimeter!).
The distance from the SuperCam to the target was about 2.3 m.

[serpens]

Thanks tau, not the first time I have been fooled by a laser.

[Phil Stooke]

Sol 360, a drive right back to the sol 91 location near the landing site. I expect a sample will be collected here or somewhere nearby. After that, as we move away from the landing site, it will be time for a new thread.

This is the sol 360 location:



Phil

[Ant103]

Sol 360 panoramic

[Phil Stooke]

Very nice panorama! Thanks for posting it.

On sol 361 we moved about 12 m NE to this location:



Phil

[charborob]

Sol 360 LMastcam-Z:

[tau]

1. Sol 361 SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager
2. Sol 361 Mastcam-Z left eye context
3. Sol 361 Mastcam-Z right eye with enhanced colors
4. Sol 91 Navcam context. Perseverance was already here 270 sols ago

1 . . 2 . . 3 . . 4

[kymani76]

a few new feature names are found here:

Phil, I think Dragonera butte is named after excavated roman villa in in Istria, Croatia.

[Phil Stooke]

Interesting! Here are some more names (thanks to Paul for the tip)

https://twitter.com/sfsholes/status/1496264943481819136


Phil

[Ant103]

Very nice panorama! Thanks for posting it.

Hey, thank you Phil

Here's the Sol 361 Navcam pan :

[vikingmars]

Hey, thank you Phil Here's the Sol 361 Navcam pan :

What a nice pan ! Thank you Damia

[Phil Stooke]

We didn't get a full panorama for sol 362 - a small move and a slight counterclockwise rotation - so this is a partial circular panorama.

Phil

[PaulH51]

Another abrasion, I believe the boulder is called 'Sid', they seem to name the abrasions as well, so I'll watch out for its name

Sol 367 NavCam