Sol 753 drive panorama with a large version derived from Paul's tiled NavCams and pointing info. In this long drive we passed by Carew Castle now visible back to the east. Just off to its right and way off to the SE it looks like a glimpse of our old friend Kodiak Butte, first time since Sol 716.

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Here is an extended drive animation from Sol 394 to the present.

Excellent! Thanks, Steve. Here is a circular view from the sol 753 location. I used Paul's original images to make a couple of patches. You can see how we had just come up over a ridge, and then stopped go get a look at the terrain ahead before proceeding.

Phil

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Amazing view, but what are the down-sloping linear features just over the crest of the ridge at middle left, and out beyond the pillars-of-Gibraltar looking outcrops in middle right?

I think I'm seeing gullies etched into the surface? I guess they could also be lines of outcrops and the shading makes them look inverted: incised instead of protruding?

A Mastcam-Z image (rotated to horizontal and contrast enhanced), a visibility analysis, and a satellite photo provide the answer.
A) just over the crest of the ridge: sand dunes
B) beyond the "pillars-of-Gibraltar": outcrops of Séítah on the crater floor
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Some crazy structural dips here! Great opportunities to sample some of the older strata.

The carbonate content of the last core site also made me sit up and pay attention! Can’t wait to see the thin sections of that rock!

Sol 755 drive panorama with a large version derived from Paul's tiled NavCams and pointing info. Another expansive view including the Jezero crater floor as we've seen. This is the one with the dust devil too, off to the SW.

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Here is an extended drive animation from Sol 394 to the present.

Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 757
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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 754-N
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Sol 758 SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager mosaic with Mastcam-Z context

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Sol 755 Navcam context for the SuperCam RMI mosaic in the preceding post

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Sol 758 Mastcam-Z left eye filter 0 RGB raw image (black frame omitted),
left eye filters 1 to 6 multispectral principal components,
and sol 755 Navcam context

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you picked the same image i used for my desktop background
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Another placename gleaned from LPSC: Cape Sable, the long south-pointing ridge west of our current location.

Phil

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Another drive by Perseverance, this one was westwards during sol 762, to site 37/4972
Here's one of the end-of-drive tiled-NavCams, the updated traverse map and the JSON drive data.
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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 762
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3 drives on 3 straight sols

The tiled NavCam was acquired at the end of the drive on sol 764, the map is an annotated screen capture showing the traverse and the location of the helicopter after its 50th flight as the duo continue their journey around Belva crater, I've also included the drive data from JPLs JSON URLs

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Indeed, moving right along towards Mount Julian located somewhere to the NW for a look inside Belva. Below are mosaics for Sols 759 and 764 with the links for larger versions. Carew Castle is no longer visible back to the southeast by Sol 764. The Jezero crater west rim hilltops are gradually looming larger.

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These are derived from Paul's tiled NavCams and pointing info. I'm presently sorting out the camera navigation info for the intervening drives on Sols 762 and 763. Here is an extended drive animation from Sol 394 to the present.

Below are mosaics for Sols 762 and 763 with the links for larger versions.

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Oops, I need to catch up. Here is Steve's panorama for sol 759 in circular form.

Phil

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Another drive by Perseverance rover on sol 765 to site 38/1808, brings the rover closer to Ingenuity. It's the rover's 4th drive in 4 straight sols. The rover continues to play catch-up with the helicopter, as they race towards the rover's next science waypoint.

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Sol 762 from Steve in circular form. Good driving terrain here!

Phil

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And the same for sol 763. Thanks to Paul and Steve.

Phil

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Yum-Yum for Perseverance at Belva's rim!
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Yes, that looks like a very nice bit of stratigraphy. An ingenuity flyover might be useful.

Phil

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Guess who was waiting for the rover at the end of the sol 766 drive to site 38/2208
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Not for too long, flight 51 NET on 18th and due W

Only 22m between Perseverance and Ingenuity on sol 766, perfect for a nice shot!

Hi thomas,
We put some work into the same image!
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Sol 765 SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager mosaic with Mastcam-Z context and enhanced Mastcam-Z left eye filter 0 image.
I would have liked the purple encrustation to the left of the mosaic to be more in SuperCam focus.

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Panorama taken by Navcam Left on sol 766 at 4:00 pm LMST. Ingenuity is located at 20m from Perseverance on the center of the panorama.
We clearly see the bowl of Belva crater on the right.

This is Steve's panorama for sol 764 in circular form. I patched it in one spot from Paul's images.

Phil

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Sol 762
this was the JPL 'image of the week'
(...the left side)
Two image stitch, enhanced
(1/2 way up, center are rover tracks...)
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Most spectacular in this view imho is the whole elevated rim of Hartwell crater in the background. Here in a crop from one of NeV-T's fantastic gigapans from a previous post
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=260284

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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 766-NW
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As Perseverance approaches the rim of Belva crater, its floor is more and more visible.
Here is a mosaic of two pictures taken by Navcam Left on sol 768.

neo56 posted a beautiful panorama for sol 766, and I have converted it to a circular projection here. Thanks, Thomas!

Phil

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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 764
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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 763
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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 768-NAVCAM- BELVA CRATER RIM
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Belva crater imaged by Mastcam-Z Right at 15:10 LMST on sol 768.

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Another drive on sol 770 takes Perseverance north by 98.5 meters (point-to-point), and gives a different (wider) view of Belva
Here's one of the post drive tiled NavCams, roughly assembled in MS-ICE and de-greened
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Sol 768 Mastcam-Z left eye filter 0 raw image (black frame omitted), and filters 1 to 6 multispectral principal components

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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 768 N-E
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Gigapan - PERSEVERANCE 770
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Below are mosaics for Sols 765 and 766 with the links for larger versions.

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These are derived from Paul's tiled NavCams and pointing info. Here is an extended drive animation from Sol 394 to the present.