Robots, Rovers, and Regolith: NASA Brings Exploration to FIRST Robotics 2025 https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/robots-rovers-and-regolith-nasa-brings-exploration-to-first-robotics-2025/ #NASA #JohnsonSpaceCenter #AmesResearchCenter #ArmstrongFlightResearchCenter #CADRECooperativeAutonomousDistributedRoboticExploration #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JetPropulsionLaboratory #KatherineJohnsonIVAndVFacility #KennedySpaceCenter #LangleyResearchCenter #Mars2020 #PerseveranceRover

Stereo3D view of a peculiar rock captured seven hours ago by Perseverance on the slopes of Jezero Crater

#Mars Apr. 11, 2025 (Sol 1472)
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Studies Trove of Rocks on Crater Rim https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-studies-trove-of-rocks-on-crater-rim/ #NASA #PerseveranceRover #Mars #Mars2020

Perseverance Rover Witnesses One Martian Dust Devil Eating Another https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/perseverance-rover-witnesses-one-martian-dust-devil-eating-another/ #NASA #PerseveranceRover #CuriosityRover #JetPropulsionLaboratory #Mars #Mars2020 #MarsExplorationRoversMER #MarsPathfinder #Viking

How NASA’s Perseverance Is Helping Prepare Astronauts for Mars https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/how-nasas-perseverance-is-helping-prepare-astronauts-for-mars/ #NASA #PerseveranceRover #JohnsonSpaceCenter #Mars #Mars2020 #RadioisotopePowerSystemsRPS

#Perseverance appears ready to take off on its broom, at the tip of Broom's Point, downslope of Witch Hazel Hill

Processed, undistorted, leveled, cropped NAVCAM_RIGHT mosaic
looking NW (314°) from RMC 71.0000
Sol 1452, LMST: 13:43:46

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01452/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NRF_1452_0795845583_925ECM_N0710000NCAM02452_01_195J01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

This place is full of spherules!

Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking SW (214°) from RMC 70.0000
Sol 1450, LMST: 14:00:31

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01450/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1450_0795669081_058EBY_N0700000SCAM03450_0090I9J01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/65dBnoise

Surprised little pebble stares back at WATSON

#pareidolia

Processed SHERLOC_WATSON
looking down (-72°) from RMC 70.0000
Sol 1449, LMST: 11:36:39

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01449/ids/edr/browse/shrlc/SIF_1449_0795571421_648EBY_N0700000SRLC00578_0000LMJ01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

A … nod?

Animated #pareidolia

Processed, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking SSW (196°) from RMC 70.0000
Sol 1446, LMST: 12:01:58

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01446/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1446_0795306642_363EBY_N0700000ZCAM09502_1100LMJ01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

There are many different ways to look at things, or look at them with different "eyes"

#pareidolia

Rather heavily processed, rotated, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking SSW (196°) from RMC 70.0000
Sol 1446, LMST: 12:01:58

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01446/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1446_0795306642_363EBY_N0700000ZCAM09502_1100LMJ01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

Another tube already?

#Perseverance has a look inside its hollow bit, which houses the sample tube which, in turn, receives the core as the bit drills into a rock and finally breaks it off by twisting off-center.

The animation shows the clean interior of the bit + sample tube. The question is, why load another tube when it just had a fresh sample from those same rocks?

MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
Sol 1444, LMST: 16:11:29

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

A view of "Broom Point" where Perseverance collected the "Main River" sample two days ago

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/mars-rock-samples/

#Mars Mar. 12, 2025 (Sol 1443)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

The Enigma of Zebra Rock: update from #LPSC2025

https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/pdf/2014.pdf

#Mars

https://mastcamz.asu.edu/galleries/daniel-pomarede-3/

A rather unusual rock encountered by Perseverance yesterday

#Mars Mar. 11, 2025 (Sol 1442)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Two 360° panoramas captured by the Mars rover Perseverance, and recently released by the Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State University. They come in 2 flavors: "enhanced colors" and "natural colors".

1) Trout River/Shallow Bay, Sol 1399
2) South Arm, Sol 1412

https://mastcamz.asu.edu/mastcam-zs-360-panorama-collection/

Some beautiful long distance vistas acquired by Perseverance today, from her vantage position on the slopes of the rim of Jezero Crater

interactive zoom on the whole mosaic https://zoomhub.net/NVgP2

#Mars Mar. 7, 2025 (Sol 1438)
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

A 53-images mosaic captured 14 hours ago by Perseverance

interactive zoom app: https://zoomhub.net/oD9yP

#Mars Mar. 6, 2025 (Sol 1437)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Perseverance is getting closer to the edge of the rim of the crater, should soon set wheels on the sands of Nili Planum.

Images captured 3 hours ago
#Mars Mar. 04, 2025 (Sol 1435)
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech