#Perseverance #Selfie with #Ingenuity
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250607.html

Rover: #Perseverance

Earth date: 2022-02-16

Sol: 354

Camera: Navigation Camera - Left

Perseverance, Opportunity, same vibe

Left: captured 9 hours ago by Perseverance
Right: captured 9 years ago by Opportunity

Summer solstice coming up in 7 ½ hours, in the northern hemisphere of Mars (i.e. when Lₛ → 90°, now at 89.81°).

Watch it live along with #Perseverance and #Ingenuity¹ (which is presently watching sand shift in the light summer breeze at the Valinor Hills beach), with Mars24, a Java program by #NASA, based on equations by Allison and McEwen:
https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/notes.html

Download:
https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/

¹ assuming the #MarsHelicopter is still functional

Perseverance: following her own tracks today

#Mars May 28, 2025 - Sol 1518
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Amazing sight captured eight hours ago by Perseverance

#Mars May 25, 2025 - Sol 1515
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Perseverance at work yesterday at ‘Krokodillen’. Look at the little stones and dust displaced by the vibrations on the right hand side

#Mars May 23, 2025 - Sol 1513
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Selected tiled-NavCams after Perseverance rover's drive during sol 1512 (May 22, 2025) to site 74.0. Looks like a site that's ripe for contact science.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

New Martian vistas captured four hours ago by Perseverance, stationed on a rock outcrop of the ‘Krokodillen’ plateau.

#Mars May 22, 2025 - Sol 1512
: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Perseverance Rover on the move again. A drive on sol 1511 (May 21,2025) took the rover SSW and further down-slope. The drive duration was 143 minutes, but that included a pause to capture some images.

Martian vistas captured a few hours ago by Perseverance, roving along the ‘Krokodillen’ plateau, southbound.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-to-take-bite-out-of-krokodillen/

#Mars May 21, 2025 - Sol 1511
: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Navcam views captured four hours ago by Perseverance at ‘Krokodillen’

#Mars May 20, 2025 - Sol 1510
: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover to Take Bite Out of ‘Krokodillen’

The area has been on the Perseverance science team’s wish list because it marks an important boundary between the oldest rocks of Jezero Crater’s rim and those of the plains beyond the crater

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-to-take-bite-out-of-krokodillen

Captured 4 hours ago by Perseverance after further driving down the lower slopes of the rim of Jezero Crater

#Mars May 19, 2025 - Sol 1509
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Truly an incredible, heroic story: Tiffany Slayton’s survival in California's Sierras. We found it well worth listening to the entire 43 mins.

And BTW, as she commented, “I had actually started my journey a while ago, attempting to bike the United States. I was very successful because I only have six states left.” https://youtu.be/6eAvrSge4z4?si=AYXtHMmZOxCpipLI

(Note: You may want to do as we do, i.e., make use of Duck Duck Go’s Duck Player. The Duck Player “lets you watch videos on YouTube without privacy-invading ads, and keeps what you watch from impacting your recommendations.‌” https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help)

A rock garden visited today by Perseverance, by the edge of the rim of Jezero Crater

https://zoomhub.net/gqjb6

#Mars May 17, 2025 - Sol 1507
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Against the wind

#AeolicErosion

Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking from RMC 73.1522
Sol 1507, LMST: 11:07:13

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01507/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1507_0800718514_988EBY_N0731522ZCAM09564_1100LMJ01.png

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