Starting a new thread as we leave the landing site and start the drive around Seitah. It will probably be quite fast unless something interesting turns up in the ejecta of the craters along the path.

Here is a circular panorama for sol 379, already north of the landing site. Maybe there will be some drive-by shots of the landing site itself.

Phil

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Sol 380 - the JPL map has not been updated yet but this circular view shows we have moved 200 m or more into the smooth area northeast of the last position. Easy driving here. We could see a record-setting drive next time.

Phil

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Still no map but the location is about here.

Phil

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Looks like perfect driving terrain. Might we get some record breaking drives?

Maybe! But not today. There is a sol 381 panorama but it looks identical to the sol 380 view. Perhaps a drive failed and the end of drive imaging happened anyway.

Phil

Sol 382, another nice drive east and a bit north.

Phil

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Approaching the La Orovata crater on sol 383 with a drive of about 220 m.
Estimated rover position by comparing Navcam and HiRISE images: 77.4619°E 18.4537°N
Green line: planned traverse

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I'm beginning to anticipate that April (more or less, depending on unpredictable opportunistic science stops and/or obstacles in the path) will be this amazing sequence of gradually improving imagery of the delta outcrops, with every few days leading to an incremental but noticeable improvement, a bit like the first approach of Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, etc. by Voyager or New Horizons. And maybe there'll be something remarkable in those images from ~150 meters away, or maybe it will just look like sedimentary layers with nothing out of the ordinary until the instruments get right onto the delta outcrops several months from now. We just don't know, but the potential is tantalizing.

Thanks Tau...

Sol 383: 4-tile L-NavCam

Looks like we may have just entered the 'Teide' map quadrangle

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Thanks, Paul. I used your image and the rest of the panorama to make my circular view for sol 383. The crater rim is obvious now.

Phil

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That puts us here...

Phil

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Sol 382 Navcam panoramic. Very lovely !

What a nice sunset pan : the wheels tracks are impressive !
Thank you Damia

Sol 383 Mastcam-Z panorama part 1 (west) . . .

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. . . and part 2 (northwest)

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Sol 384: 3 end of drive tiled Navcam's from the available image set at this time. Roughly assembled in MS-ICE and de-greened

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Click here for the full panorama from sol 383 in 4k on Youtube

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Very spectacular, Sean! What a great site this is.

Here is the sol 384 panorama in circular form.

Phil

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And the next sol... 385.

Phil

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Thank you very much Phil for the views.
I hope that we will have soon a sneak peek of the interior of the La Orotava crater

Sol 385 Navcam panorama. I don't think we will be seeing the interior of the crater…

Sol 385 LMastcam-Z:
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There's a gap in the rim a few dozen metres to north, which might allow a glimpse inside.

Sorry, no look inside the crater (except possibly a drive-by). In fairness, like Spirit's view inside Bonneville, it probably wouldn't show very much.

I say 'no look' because Perseverance is now north of the crater. I haven't done a detailed analysis yet but the raw Navs show an unobstructed view of Santa Cruz plus a distant crater rim to the north, which will be Port Angeles.

Phil

Here is the sol 386 panorama in circular form.

Phil

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And sol 387. The rim of Port Angeles crater is visible to the north (top).

Phil

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Some preliminary views from 388_MZL...





Each image has a slightly different image process applied.

This is the view on sol 388, moving very quickly through this interesting landscape.

Phil

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Sol 386 Navcam panoramic. A special one because THEY TOOK THE SKY, again !

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• Immersive version :

Very nice! Here is the sol 389 panorama in circular form.

Phil

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Stunning, thank you for sharing!

Sol 382 Mastcam-Z filters 1 to 6 multispectral principal components false-color panorama

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Sol 389 Navcam panoramic. We roving close to a little unnamed crater.

Is there a reason for this pause in releasing raw images from Mars2020 that I am unaware of? The last raw image was from sol 389 and now it's sol 394. Is there some software update going on or what? I even tried to look on social media sites and there is not a single word about it.
I can still remember MER Spirit and its LOS in the first few sols on Mars, and I hope it is nothing like that this time?

No public information at the moment. Sol 394 images just came down.

Phil

And here is the panorama for sol 394 in circular form.

Phil

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And here is the panorama for sol 394 in circular form.

Phil


Phil thanks as always for the amazing work you do for us all.

What is a good way to view these circular pans? Do you use viewing software that rotates the image through 360 degrees?

Mark

Sol 385 Mastcam-Z
What could that bright thing on La Orotava crater wall be?
A piece of hardware lost or dropped during descent and landing?
A piece of Martian rock that was hurled here from elsewhere by a meteorite impact?
A meteorite? It doesn't look like a meteorite.

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Some enhanced / extended sky shots from the MZL_00388 panorama...

Nope. Too big.
Nope. Shape and how it seems to 'fit' against a back rock suggests in situ.
Eh, perhaps, but as above, based on what appears to be a 'fit' to the rock behind, it would have to be hurled, buried, then excavated.

My initial guess would be a pegmatite pipe.
When molten rock cools, the result is much like leaving a soda or beer in the freezer too long, aka "apple jack" (early distillers let hard cider freeze out the water, then poured out the concentrated liquor)*

When molten rock chambers cool, they 'freeze out' minerals which snow down, until you're left with a magma enriched in the material with the lowest freezing point- which is usually enriched in metals, often white, and called "pegmatite".

*disclaimer- don't try at home. Freeze distillation doesn't separate methanol (bad-go blind) from ethanol (good, you've made apple brandy/schnapps). To separate methanol from ethanol, you need heat distillation and condensation (e.g. a moonshine still)

We recently got a cider press, but tis the season for: the mineral "sand" aka niter that precipitates from cooling maple syrup. (We pulled our 10 taps after getting about 120gallons of sap.) Cider is a fall thing.

You can watch it snow niter, but I think you're seeing sugar on a tiny bit of unspecified "mineral." I'm not sure.

Sol 385 Mastcam-Z right eye filter 0 (RGB), principal components false colors
Landscape with rock garden on the crater wall of La Orotava
The false-color bluish gray of the rocks varies a bit: in vesicular rocks it tends towards violet, in layered rocks towards turquoise.

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Ejecta yes, but being situated on the crater wall probably home grown. With Séítah seemingly the remnant of a lava lake or magma chamber, fractional crystallization would have resulted in layering of olivine, plagioclase feldspar etc and the impact may have breached that level. One thing about the crater. Did it impact the boundary of Séítah before the crater floor was covered by lava, embaying the crater wall or after? Given that the Séítah side seems much more eroded I would punt for after.

Here is the sol 395 panorama in circular form. Up on top of a little ridge.

Mark, I don't have special viewing software. The images are made and viewed in Photoshop. I use these images to compare with a HiRISE image to find locations or identify features> So I just view it as a flat image and compare it with another flat image. I suppose there might be other ways to view this but I'm not clever enough to do that.

Phil

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My take is that it is a piece of ejecta from the fabled Whiterock Formation.

--Bill

On the third image of Sean's post #39, the MZL_00388 panorama, there is a dark downslope flow material that looks a little like the gullies seen elsewhere. Perhaps these are much smaller, different, and just dust, but they are eye-catching. I don't think we've seen anything like this on Mars before from the ground.

Sol 395 Mastcam-Z panorama with enhanced colors
The prominent cliff behind the rounded hill on the left is part of the delta.
So-called "northern fan deposits" are visible behind this cliff in the distance and to the right.

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Preliminary shots from 395...

Sol 395 Mastcam-Z looking east. Colors enhanced.
Port Angeles crater with layered outcrops on the inner slope.
The hills in the background are probably heavily eroded remnants of delta sediments.
Curvilinear layers are faintly visible on the slopes. Distance from the rover about 2.4 to 3 km.
The rock on the far left behind the hillside is a small variant of Kodiak hill, distance about 3.3 km.

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Edit: Corrected the name of the crater

Sol 395 anaglyph Mastcam-Z looking north

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