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

[PaulH51]

Animation assembled from 3 FL-HazCam frames from Sols 2135, 36 and 37.

The Sol 2135 frame was acquired before drilling Stoer, 36 and 37 are both post drilling.

We can see the sand on the surface of the rocks on sol 2136 has been moved by the drilling process. However the sol 2137 image shows that much of that disturbed sand has been redistributed by the wind between 2136 and 2137. Lets hope the wind is not going to be a serious threat to the transfer of material to the onboard instruments. Maybe they can pick a time of day that is normally less windy to perform the transfer? NB Credit to this observation belongs to @LarsTheWanderer over on Twitter.

[neo56]

A new full deck MastCam Left panorama is coming! (caption from Midnight Planets)

[PaulH51]

Sol 2138: Looks like Curiosity may have captured a sequence of powdered rock sample drops from the drill sleeve to the ground with its L-MastCam. I cropped the upper right corner of the frames back to 800x800 to assemble this 4 frame GIF. If these were sample drops, it confirms sample acquisition which is great news

[PaulH51]

Curi used its micro imager to acquire a close-up of this interesting little oddity that features in the middle of the arm workspace on Sol 2139, it can be seen in colour on the animation in the previous post. Not sure if they zapped it as there is only one image, LIBS targets normally have two images (before & after LIBS) Maybe they will use MAHLI after they finish transferring the sample to the instruments

[PaulH51]

Sol 2145 ChemCam-RMI Mosaic (3 frames).

[Guest_Actionman_*]

Sol 2145 ChemCam-RMI Mosaic (3 frames).

one egg over easy!

[Sean]

Here is a peek at a HiRISE / CTX / MARCI & synthetic RGB blend...

[elakdawalla]

Beautiful. The northern slope of the ridge is steeper than I'd imagined.

[Sean]

Thanks Emily, early days for this technique. Curi is actually a bit west from the location shown here.

[PaulH51]

2 Sol 2149 RMI mosaics, roughly assembled in MS ICE.

[jvandriel]

Sol 2136.
Drilling seen by the Front Hazcam.

Jan van Driel

[fredk]

I think the shape of the rim of Gale and some features on it are starting to become evident - compare this 2151 view:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/pr...NCAM00580M_.JPG

with this from 2031:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/pr...NCAM00580M_.JPG

[PaulH51]

I think the shape of the rim of Gale and some features on it are starting to become evident - compare this 2151 view:

Would agree, the sensitivity of the engineering cameras towards IR is likely helping, The recent MastCam images of the northern rim wall are not capturing the same distant details, hopefully in a few weeks

[jvandriel]

Sol 2137 MAST L

175 Images Debayerd and stitched.

Images credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Jan van Driel

[PaulH51]

Animation of 13 R-MastCam frames from sol 2150 forming a timelapse of portions of the unused powdered rock sample from Stoer being dropped onto the ground, looks like they had plenty of sample... I've reduced the width of each image to 700px, timestamps are from Midnight Planets.