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Paul Hammond

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.

youtube.com/watch?v=9bLhVJKoIO

YouTubeMeet the Mars Samples: Sapphire Canyon (Sample 25)By NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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65dBnoise

After a long stop at Broom's Point, #Perseverance is back on its planned route down the northwest Jezero Crater rim. The path shown is a guess.

The map was made with #QGIS

Quickly processed, leveled NAVCAM_RIGHT mosaic
looking NNE (24°) from RMC 71.0696
Sol 1468, LMST: 12:02:55

Original: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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More on what #Perseverance has been spending its time on these last few sols. Those spots are measured in μm rather than in mm.

Processed, cropped, enhanced SHERLOC_WATSON
looking down from RMC 71.0160
Sol 1466, LMST: 16:12:51

Have a look at the original:
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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Some interesting details from a very close distance. If that rock were on Earth, then there could be some barnacles there, maybe even a "leopard spot" on that rock at lower left, like those back at Cheyava Falls.

Processed SHERLOC_WATSON 2 image depth-of-field composite
looking down from RMC 71.0160
Sol 1465, LMST: 14:39:01

Original: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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65dBnoise

Whose project is this?

Let me put it differently: Who pays for it and who will take the heat if the project fails to deliver the #RosalindFranklin rover to the surface? Will we then see titles like, "Airbus crashes lander on Mars"? Certainly not.

So, #ESA, do your job and render to C̶a̶e̶s̶a̶r Airbus the things that are Airbus's and to G̶o̶d̶ ESA the things that are ESA's, meaning, size and place logos properly, and provide information on funding.

esa.int/Science_Exploration/Hu

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@jesusmargar
Here is a sample of the metadata that comes with *each* #Perseverance image. Did I say how much we love NASA for those? And why it hurts so much to see this stellar space agency lose funding and personnel to benefit subsidized private companies, who give NOTHING back to society?

The source, directly from #NASA's servers:
mars.nasa.gov/rss/api/?feed=ra

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#Perseverance backed a few meters away from the edge of the cliff called "Sally's Cove", but did it v e r y c a r e f u l l y. How do we know that? Because it did those few meters in 3 stops, capturing intermediate images, and taking time to send some back to Earth before proceeding (I presume).

Here are the receipts, but there is a problem: only the attitude quaternion changed in the metadata, while the XYZ parameters stayed fixed (should have changed, too)

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