Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 955
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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 951
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Neville's post #1051. We only missed seeing the river flowing through into the crater by a few billion years.

This is Steve's panorama for sol 950 in circular form. An image from Paul let me fix a seam in the foreground.

Phil

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Sol 950 Mastcam-Z left eye filter 0 (RGB) mosaic with enhanced colors and anaglyph
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Sol 955 Mastcam-Z left eye filter 0 (slightly enhanced), left eye filters 1 to 6 multispectral principal components, and anaglyph

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Sol 956 Mastcam-Z left eye filter 0 (slightly enhanced), left eye filters 1 to 6 multispectral principal components, and anaglyph.
There are some peculiarly shaped rocks, formed by wind erosion, here and in the two previous posts.

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Sol 955 SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager mosaic with Mastcam-Z context and sol 952 Navcam context

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Sol 957 SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager mosaic with sol 956 Mastcam-Z context and left eye filters 1 to 6 multispectral principal components

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Sol 952, Steve's panorama in circular form.

Phil

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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 940
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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 959
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Now this is an interesting rock: moderate-grained below the contact and conglomeratic above. Did you do a multispectral view of this? Do we spot an in-place outcrop of this rock type?

--Bill

That's a stunner, I wonder if they might be tempted to head over there?


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This is only seemingly one rock on sol 950. That's what I thought, too, before I looked at it in the anaglyph. It is two different rocks with a distance between them.
The more distant rock was already visible on sol 939 (post #1039). You can find a multispectral image of it in post #1040.
This rock is probably not a conglomerate, but a grainy rock (sandstone?) with a bumpy surface.

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Nice clouds imaged on sol 959 by NavCam Left.

Sol 958 SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager mosaic with Mastcam-Z context and sol 957 Navcam context

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Cloudy sky on sol 961. NavCam Right, 16:13 LMST.

I think you are spot on Tau. The bumpy aspect is a function of erosion. It is standing proud of similar rocks and was probably part of that bed and potentially tilted.

I was wondering if the layered rock might extend beneath the bumpy rock, which can't be decided from the images in the previous posts.
The bumpy rock had even been imaged already on sol 934 with the left and right eyes of the Mastcam-Z simultaneously.
These paired raw images (1, 2), along with paired images of Sol 950 (3, 4, 5, 6), enabled triangulation (map 1).
There is a dark rock (and/or shadow) at the intersection of the distance circles around the respective rover positions.
Helicopter flight paths run nearby. And indeed, the dark rock is visible in some helicopter color camera photos from sol 915.
Calculating the relative positions (as seen from above) of the visible front faces of the three rocks with the help of the sol 950 raw images results in the left inset in map 2.
Light blue polygons are a measure of the uncertainty of the triangulation. Here is A - the bumpy rock, B - the layered rock, C - the rock with a hovering pointed tip and its shadow.
Both insets and the orbital photo are of the same scale.
The photo made by the helicopter clearly shows that A and B are not connected and that the apparent contact between A and B in this image is an optical illusion.

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Oh my. Geo-paredolia strikes!

--Bill

Really? OK.

Here is a wiggle stereogram for sol 950.

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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 962-963
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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 960
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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 960
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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 950
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https://www.lpi.usra.edu/pac/presentations/...023%20v1.4.pptx

This link is to the recent PAC meeting presentation on the Mars program. It includes a nice slide on the delta samples:

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Phil

Sol 958 is seen in this 360 degree mosaic along with a large version link. The drive was to the NNW and the view is centered on north. Thanks to Paul for image and camera navigation info and Kevin Gill for the raw image utilities that all help prep the images for my processing steps. This one has more seams than usual as the images come from three different times of the day with changing land and sky illumination.

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Here is Sol 959 heading to the ENE along with a large version link.

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And here is Sol 960 heading to the east along with a large version link. Thanks to Paul for image and camera navigation info and Kevin Gill for the raw image utilities that all help prep the images for my processing.

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Extended drive animation from Sol 387 to the present.

Thanks for all those images, Steve and Paul. Here is the sol 958 panorama in circular form.

Phil

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And the same for sol 959.

Phil

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... and sol 960. Up to date! The rim peaks were patched with images from another sol.

Phil

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Sol 989 SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager mosaic with sol 988 Mastcam-Z context and sol 961 Navcam context

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Even before seeing the cloud image my first thought was that the lighting looks soft in the other images.

Sol 991 SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager mosaic with sol 991 Mastcam-Z context and sol 960 Navcam context

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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 995
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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 995-996
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Sol 993 SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager mosaic with Mastcam-Z filter 0 raw image context and Mastcam-Z left eye filters 1 to 6 multispectral principal components

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Here is Sol 1002 (the most recent of the bunch now available) with a large version link. Thanks to Paul for image and camera navigation info and Kevin Gill for the raw image utilities that all help prep the images for my processing.

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Along with Sol 1001 below with a large version link.

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Extended drive animation from Sol 387 to the present.

Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 997
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Gigapan - PERSEVERENCE 998
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Sol 996 SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager mosaic with an interesting rock collection

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Sol 996 Mastcam-Z left eye filter 0 (slightly enhanced), and left eye (ZL1...) and right eye (ZR1...) filters 1 to 6 multispectral principal components

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That is probably the most dramatic color sorting of large rocks I've seen. I like the smaller brown rock in the middle panel--so at least 3 types of rock here. Very nice tau.

Looking a bit earlier, the mosaic below uses Sol 1000 imagery with a large version link. Thanks to Paul for image and camera navigation info and Kevin Gill for the raw image utilities that all help prep the images for my processing.

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And here is Sol 999 with a large version link.

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Extended drive animation from Sol 387 to the present.

Perseverance spots a giant sunspot on Dec 22nd

Thank you Glevesque Here are a couple of Sols that help fill in the animation. The first mosaic uses Sol 997 imagery with a large version link. Thanks to Paul for image and camera navigation info and Kevin Gill for the raw image utilities that all help prep the images for my processing.

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Below is Sol 998 with a large version link.

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Extended drive animation from Sol 387 to the present.

This mosaic uses Sol 994 imagery with a large version link. Thanks to Paul for image and camera navigation info and Kevin Gill for the raw image utilities that all help prep the images for my processing.

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Below has a synthetic sky added, helped by the relatively uniform timing and lighting of the individual images.

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This one uses Sol 993 imagery with a large version link.

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