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Paul Hammond

Curiosity rover used its arm mounted MAHLI camera to capture close up images of one of the knobby/bumpy rocks in its workspace on sol 4479. Attached is an animated GIF using three focus stacked images that were acquired by moving the rover's robotic arm between images. The camera standoff was 25/30cm from the target which provides us with an scene width of ~15cm. Credits:NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Another day, another drive for Perseverance rover. This short drive was completed during mission sol 1445 (March 14, 2025). Arriving at site 70.0.

Attached is a roughly processed post-drive 4-tile L-NavCam image, the drive data and screen capture of the mission map. The dogleg traverse distance was just 6.45 meters (~21 ft) west-northwest. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA.

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Curiosity Rover: A 'Bump' on sol 4478 'to get the rover in an ideal position to analyze and characterize a rock with a knobby/bumpy texture that appears quite different from the typical surrounding bedrock'. Post drive NavCam, Drive data & Traverse map (with scale). Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Curiosity's latest workspace imaged on mission sol 4471 (March 5, 2025 ) after a drive of 19.6 meters (64.4 ft). This composite image is roughly assembled from 15 overlapping L-MastCam subframe images, the images were Bayer reconstructed prior to assembly.
Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

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Curiosity continues to make steady progress through the upper sulfate unit and toward its next major science waypoint. The drive of ~19.6 meters (64ft) is shown on the map, with the details in the table. The monochrome image from one of its NavCam's shows the rover's new robotic arm workspace that it reached on sol 4471 (March 5, 2025) Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA. #Mars #Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Exploration #Solarrocks #data #map

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Curiosity Rover's latest workspace after a drive to the south of ~37 meters (120 ft) during Sol 4469. By the end the drive it had climbed nearly 4 meters (13 ft). The detailed data from the drive are attached as is a screenshot from the mission traverse map (with scale) and a post-drive L-NavCam image featuring the robotic arm workspace.

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Curiosity's latest workspace imaged on mission sol 4464 (February 25, 2025 ) after a drive of ~26 meters (85 feet). . The workspace covers an area about 2 meters (~6.5 feet) across, and shows details within the workspace accessible to the instruments and tools on the rover's 2 meter-long robotic arm. Also attached is the drive data and an updated map with scale.
Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

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Meanwhile on Mars - We now have the Bayer reconstructed left side mast camera images of the sol 4462 robotic arm workspace (reached February 23, 2025). Attached is a rough mosaic of those 15 overlapping frames, the drive data and a screen capture of the mission map (with scale) at the new location. The drive data is imported from JPL's waypoints URL

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Credits: NASA.JPL-Caltech/MSSS/UofA/fredk

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Meanwhile on Mars: Sol 1420 (February 17, 2025) Perseverance rover has drilled a new sample hole, it's located adjacent to an earlier abrasion patch. This partial / roughly processed image was acquired by one of the rover's Hazard Avoidance Cameras and shows the new sample hole on the left and the abrasion patch on the right. For scale the patch has a diameter of close of 5 cm (2 inches). Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A cone of greyish coloured tailings from the rovers rock coring drill are sat on top on an outcrop of rock. Next to the sample hole is a shallow round patch that was ground into the surface of the rock by the rover to expose the subsurface of the brown rock, that patch is exposed to permit the rover's instruments to analyse the rock without its dusty weathered surface which would provide skewed readings on the instruments.
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Meanwhile on Mars - Curiosity rover continues its traverse towards the west-southwest with another drive of ~35 meters. Attached is a post-drive left side navigation camera image of its new workspace, the drive data and a screen capture of the mission map (with scalebar), the sol 4452 traverse is highlighted by a yellow path.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA

Sol 4452: Left Navigation Camera. This image was taken by NAV_LEFT_B onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4452 (2025-02-13T14:19:43.000Z) It's a B&W image of the rover new workspace (just in front of the rover). The rocks are surrounded by regolith, with some of the sands formed into wind ripples Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A table of drive data that covers the most recent drive to site 113 / drive 1128, during February 13, 2025 (Sol 4452)
A screen capture of the mission map for Curiosity rover. It shows identifies the traverse with a line and markers at each waypoints where the rover stopped at the end of each drive. the map is assembled from images captured by spacecraft orbiting Mars, it shows the valleys / hills the rover has traversed. There is a small marker that shows the current location of the rover heading west southwest into a new valley system
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