I've had times when I felt I was shouting in the dark on a number of different platforms over the years, but those community don't last long as they usually grow. The Mars communities here on Lemmy have grown nicely since I came over here from Reddit. I'm sort of paying it forward for all those that preceded me that gave me joy in the late 50's and 60's when I was young developing space nerd. I simply gather the data / images to satisfy my own curiosity. Sharing it with a few like minded souls, is only but a few clicks in this digital age :)
MSR is expected to have up to 2 Ingenuity class helicopters. Each will be equipped with small wheels on each landing leg (for driving up to sample tubes) and have a small robotic arm (to pick up sample tubes)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2953049
> back to back videos of the same flight, each video was recorded by the left and right MastCam-Z cameras at different zoom levels. Watch until the end :) Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/James Sorenson
Processed by James Sorenson. High on the list of my favourites mission images (so far) Distance 57.3 meters. We're still waiting for the movie frames the rover captured during flight 54, those movies will be rather special :)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/James Sorenson
This is a very roughly processed image from the helicopter's 54 flight, a test to reset it's localization data after having issues on the 53rd fight.
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Learn more about Samples No. 14 and 15 – “Shuyak” and “Mageik,” a pair of sedimentary rock core samples that excite scientists because, on Earth, this type of sedimentary rock preserves signs of life for a very long time. If that same process also occurs on Mars, it could help us understand if life ever existed there.
Perseverance on its way to RMC 42.2700 made a stop to take a picture of its companion, Ingenuity, at RMC 42.2360. The team apparently intended the image to be very detailed so they used Mastcam-Z with a focal length of 110mm from a distance of 14m!
Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm Sol: 871, RMC: 42.2360, LMST: 13:13:30 Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00871/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_0871_0744265587_568EBY_N0422360ZCAM05155_1100LMJ01.png Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
Source: https://fosstodon.org/@65dBnoise@mastodon.social/110822316687935759
It could be messed up data from the helicopter, or there could be a problem with the helicopter. Whatever it was the helicopter is safe on the ground and even sent images from earlier flights after landing. But the lack of images from flight 53 is very odd.
Awaiting the JSON data from JPL to formalise the location and path of the flight
Need JSON data to establish the precise distance but that will have to wait until JPL release the data. Credits for spotting it to Mars Stu, and reported by @65dBnoise@mastodon.social
I cant see the helicopter in the image, it should be on the bank of Fall River Pass, so it's either behind the rocky terrain or it may have already flown north for flight #53.
This image was assembled from 16 tiles. Zoom in for full resolution.
No formal drive data or map yet, I'll post that ASAP. Watch this space