NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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1644 - Another puzzling rock in Jezero (infosec.pub)

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

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Mars continue to provide us with an ever increasing collection of stunning rocks. Here's a mosaic assembled from 11 overlapping MastCam-Z images (full zoom) featuring a small boulder that's as big as a large boulder ;)

The boulder is sitting close to the rover. The base images were acquired on sol 1644 (October 4, 2025)

The mosaic was assembled by Kevin M Gill. His full resolution mosaic can be viewed on Flickr page, but has had to be reduced a little to meet the upload requirements of Lemmy. Link to full size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/54834239678/sizes/o/

Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

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[–] SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a small boulder, comparable in length to the diameter of Percy's wheels, I'd estimate - so the long dimension is roughly 50 cm. Here's one of the HazCam shots that Paul Hammond assembled, from sol 1642:

Please keep the questions coming, everyone - they're helping me put together my ~~link dump~~ reference list! (I'm not promising a FAQ any time soon, but that's the way this really should go, ultimately...)

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Thanks! No banana for scale? 🤔