Another day on Mars, another drive for Perseverance rover. This drive was completed during mission sol 1472 April 11, 2025). Arriving at site 72.0.

Attached is a roughly processed / cropped post-drive L-NavCam composite image from 6 tiles, the drive data, and screen capture of the updated mission map. The traverse distance was 14.5 meters (47.5 ft) due west. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA.

Meet the 25th Martian sample collected by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover – “Sapphire Canyon” – a sample taken from a vein-filled rock named “Cheyava Falls.” The arrowhead-shaped rock contains compelling features that may help answer whether Mars was home to microscopic life in the distant past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bLhVJKoIOg

A drive by Perseverance rover took it to site number 71.696 during Sol 1468 (April 7, 2025). The attached roughly processed image is one of the end-of-drive navigation camera 4-tile composite images. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Another day, another drive for Perseverance rover. Its short drive was completed during mission sol 1463 (April 1, 2025) to site number 71.160. Attached is one of the end-of-drive tiled left NavCam images. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Perseverance Rover moves a short distance away from Sally's Cove during mission sol 1461 (March 30, 2025). Just a few meters to site 71.120. Attached is one of the end-of-drive NavCam images. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Curiosity's latest workspace imaged on mission sol 4493 (March 27, 2025). This composite image is assembled from 15 overlapping Bayer reconstructed L-MastCam sub-frame images.

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Meanwhile on Mars:
Sol 1458 SHERLOC WATSON camera image. Are we looking at a load test with the abrasion tool? Possible marks from the abrasion tool in the image center, and marks from the drill's support posts on either side? Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Sol 1456 - Abrasion tool activity imaged by one of the rover's HazCam's

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Mögliche Biomoleküle auf dem Mars entdeckt. Langkettige Kohlenwasserstoffe könnten Relikte biogener Fettsäuren sein. #Curiosity #Mars #Marsrover #planet #Chemie
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/moegliche-biomolekuele-auf-dem-mars-entdeckt/

Curiosity rover checking out the scenery as it heads south on sol 4484.

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Meanwhile on Mars: Curiosity rover drove 18 meters further south into the canyon that it's traveling through to reach its next major science waypoint. The ~28 minute drive during sol 4484 (March 18, 2025) took the rover to site 114.918. Attached: DeBayered workspace mosaic, drive data and 2 traverse maps (different scales). Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Curiosity Rover mission update for Sols 4481-4483 - Humber Pie:

https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4481-4483-humber-pie/

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity Rover in Gale crater: A drive of ~33 meters during Sol 4483 (March 17, 2025). The drive direction was southwest with a small detour to check out a rock formation, the rover climbed 2.2 meters during the ~59 minute drive. Post drive L-NavCam, the drive data extracted from JPL's waypoint JSON, and a couple of traverse maps (different scales). Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Curiosity's latest workspace imaged on mission sol 4480 (March 14, 2025 ) after a drive of 24 meters (~79 ft). This composite image is assembled from 15 overlapping L-MastCam sub-frame images. The workspace covers an area about 2 meters (~6.5 feet) across, and shows details within the workspace accessible to the instruments and tools on the rover's 2 meter-long robotic arm. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Curiosity Rover - Sol 4497: Yet More interesting rock textures in this Bayer reconstructed R-MastCam. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

Curiosity rover used its arm mounted MAHLI camera to capture close up images of one of the knobby/bumpy rocks in its workspace on sol 4479. Attached is an animated GIF using three focus stacked images that were acquired by moving the rover's robotic arm between images. The camera standoff was 25/30cm from the target which provides us with an scene width of ~15cm. Credits:NASA/JPL-Caltech

Another day, another drive for Perseverance rover. This short drive was completed during mission sol 1445 (March 14, 2025). Arriving at site 70.0.

Attached is a roughly processed post-drive 4-tile L-NavCam image, the drive data and screen capture of the mission map. The dogleg traverse distance was just 6.45 meters (~21 ft) west-northwest. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA.

Curiosity Rover: A 'Bump' on sol 4478 'to get the rover in an ideal position to analyze and characterize a rock with a knobby/bumpy texture that appears quite different from the typical surrounding bedrock'. Post drive NavCam, Drive data & Traverse map (with scale). Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Curiosity Rover mission update for Sols 4477-4478

Bumping Back to Business:

#Mars #Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarrocks #Blog

https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4477-4478-bumping-back-to-business/

Substituted image - Sol 4477 MAHLI mosaic. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS