NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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1577 - Drive data (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 days ago by paulhammond5155@lemmy.world to c/perseverancerover@lemmy.world

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The duration may look a little long, but the rover did pause this drive at about the half way mark. As it can't drive at night, and it needed to recharge it's batteries for another long drive on the second sol.

Data is taken from JPL's json URLs that is updated by JPL shortly after each drive. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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[–] SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

40 m elevation gain with the rover parked at a 15º pitch angle... judging by this rear hazcam image, there was some rougher driving there, at least toward the end. The rover's current location seems like a fairly significant detour from the route identified a few months ago, and there's a big patch of bedrock about 20 m uphill along its current heading.

I wonder if they've identified something interesting further upslope. This ground we're on is kind of rubbly, and I don't think we needed to come up this high if we were simply skirting that sand trap in the flats to the south. Perhaps that bedrock further up exposes material from a stratum we didn't sample back on Witch Hazel Hill? I have no objection to taking a look, but maybe you should pay me no mind... I'm the last person Ken Farley listens to when it comes to driving this rover 😞