A SuperCam photo from sol 106 with context, less panoramic, more grainy, with laser shots into a dune crest.
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The previously missing right side of the sol 107 SuperCam context has just arrived. Here now a context panorama with twice the size.
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https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8963/nasas-perse...mpaign-on-mars/

This links to the science plan for the next few months - in fact probably the next year. South to study and sample this crater floor material, then north again to circle around and reach the delta.

Phil

Another drive on Sol 108. end-of-drive R-Navcam (site 4, drive index 738)
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This is a composite of the various plans we have seen for exploration.

Phil

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How useful Thank you Phil

A bunch of new panoramics.

Sol 105, MastcamZ at 110mm.





Sol 106, the crater rim, with its rocks.



This one, at 34mm



All resolutions available here (just swipe across the timeline) :
https://db-prods.net/marsroversimages/perse...ance2021.php#28

Excellent work, Damia.

Here is a circular view for sol 108. It took a while to get all the pieces for it - I preferred the single frame Navcams for making a quick panorama but most frames are now coming down as 4 quadrants, better resolution but more work.

Phil

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Just when you're catching up... Another drive on Sol 109. Looks like they could be beginning a traverse around the crater.
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and I think that's the first look at Ingenuity since the last flight. She was hidden behind the crater until now.

Sol 108 Mastcam-Z left eye and right eye filters 0 to 6 multispectral color images and an anaglyph.
Here you will find a full-color stereo image for viewing on a 3D TV.
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Sol 109 SuperCam with context and context of the context
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Sol 109 anaglyph:
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Sol 109, circular view. There's a nice little crater just to the west.

Phil

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To me the southern route that would have the rover pass by Kodiak on its way to the Delta looks more scientifically compelling. Any reason given for a change in direction heading North?

It avoids having to cross Seitah. Maybe after detailed study of that region they decided not to risk it.

Meanwhile, catching up a bit (panoramas are coming in a bit at a time, not very convenient for mapping) - here is a circular view for sol 107.


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Phil

Yet another drive on Sol 110, brings us further around the small crater, and closer to Ingenuity. As seen in this post drive R-Navcam (Site 4 drive 922)
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Here is the new circular view for sol 110. Easy driving! But much more difficult terrain lies ahead.

Phil

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Sol 110 SuperCam with context and associated Mastcam-Z left eye multispectral image
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Another SuperCam with context on sol 110
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Sol 108 SuperCam with context
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Sol 110: anaglyph of the large boulder:
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Beautiful view of Kodiak hill taken on sol 111.


Kodiak hill sol 111
by Tomislav Bandin, on Flickr

Sol 111 Mastcam-Z images. Details of the hazy, distant parts of the landscape come out better with some careful transformations of the RGB values.
Here are two raw images and their processed variants. Compression artifacts are starting to become visible.
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Same procedure with the Jezero crater wall behind Kodiak hill, raw and processed
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Really nice work tau.

Let's see if I can get this Quote to come out right.
On the last processed image of the four, there appears to be a bluish ground haze. I presume that it is some sort of processing artifact. What do you think of it?

My intention was to make small differences in hue and brightness more clearly visible by numerical transformations of the RGB values in the color space, not to reconstruct the true Martian colors. Although these processed images show very Mars-like red-brown colors, they are rather false-color images (blue sky). When the color space is stretched, an orange that is less orange (less saturated) than others may move across the gray axis into the bluish region.

As to what causes the haze - I can only guess. I presume that there is a higher concentration of dust in the air near the ground in some places, and that this dust is less orange-red (more grayish) than the dusty Martian surface. Or is it a material difference on the surface itself? But it is indeed interesting to see this haze (or whatever it is).

Sol 112 LMastcam-Z:
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Sol 112 SuperCam with context, false-color image, and anaglyph (only the part with overlapping left and right eye images)
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The same rock as before, now with "multispectral colors" from filters 0 to 6 in left eye and right eye of Mastcam-Z on sol 112
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Tau--
Indeed.

Sol 112, Mastcam-Z left eye all nine spectral channels (0=RGB and 1 to 6) processed, from right eye only the six infrared channels, and an anaglyph. The processed image of the right eye looks quite alien, or like a surrealistic painting, or both.
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A drive on sol 113, with what appears to be two nice Dust Devils across in 'DD Alley' in the mid-drive L-Navcam tile (timestamp 13:49:50, site 4 - drive 1034)
The second L-Navcam tile acquired at the end of the drive shows us that the DD's have dissipated (timestamp 15:19:20, site 4 - drive 1062)
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Sol 112 Mastcam-Z panorama
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... and Sol 112 panorama anaglyph
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Another sol 112 anaglyph:
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Sol 112 landscape with crater in crater. Regarding the "bluish haze": If it really is dust in the air, then this dust must be much finer (more like smoke) than the dust swirled up in the dust devils, as a comparison with enhanced colors shows (Navcam sol 113, Mastcam-Z sol 112).
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Sol 113 SuperCam no. 1
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Sol 113 SuperCam no. 2
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Sol 113 SuperCam no. 3
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The two nice dust devils identified by Paul on sol 113. This is a mosaic of two Navcam Left pictures.


Contrast increased:


Another one in the west direction, between the azimuth of Kodiak and Neretva Vallis.

Here is a circular view of the sol 113 location. The dust devil on the delta (EDIT: on the crater wall beyond the delta) is visible in the west (north at the top as usual).

Phil

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Sol 113 late afternoon LMastcam-Z panorama:
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Another sol 113 LMastcam panorama:
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combined sol 114 DD reconnaissance:

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contrast enhanced and sharpened. Animated with 1s frame to frame speed, in reality about 14s.

The N (frames 0-2) and W (frames 12-14) views have broader dust devils. To the N in front of the delta, and to the W pretty much in the same spot where the sol 113 swirl was. There may be another one to the N, on top of the delta.

The SE (frames 6-8) view may also have a very faint swirl left (east) of the center. Perhaps worth detecting with more sensitive methods.

Nice view of Ingenuity on sol 114. Hoping to see some more flights.


Perseverance Ingenuity Panorama Sol 114
by Tomislav Bandin, on Flickr

Sol 114 Dust Devil Watch
360 degree DD quick peek sequence (3 frames per 5 stances)
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I think there are several more DD detections. For example, I believe the E view (frames 3-5 above) has one left of center in front of the dark, distant hill, moving left.

Sol114 has the closest Zcam image of Ingenuity after the selfie before the first flight. For easy reference here a slightly gmic enhanced enlargement:

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Some dust on the wings, but the (carbon fiber?) texture still gets through. The solar panel roof seems pretty shiny. No obvious wear at all.