Crazy how hires this image is, given how far away it came from
The rover is currently 113 million kilometers from Earth, with a round trip light time of 12.58 minutes… So yes, the image came a long way, but it’s a mosaic of 15 images, so the resolution is a little higher that we would get from a single image :)
What are the current quadrants naming conventions or terrestrial region?
This map quadrant is called ‘Gros Morne’
Gros Morne National Park is a Canadian national park and World Heritage Site located on the west coast of Newfoundland.
You can see all the original named quadrants on this map from early in the mission, I can’t find a more recent one that identifies some quadrants outside the crater that the rover could visit.
This map shows various quadrant themes in the vicinity of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, each quadrant is 0.7 miles (1.2 kilometers) on each side.
The Perseverance team chose quadrant themes related to various national parks across Earth, from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to Jotunheimen National Park in Norway. The themes help organize the unofficial nicknames that are given by rover team members to different surface features they want to study, such as hills, craters, boulders, and even specific rock surfaces. The first sedimentary rock core sample the rover took was from a rock nicknamed “Skinner Ridge” for a ridge in Shenandoah National Park when Perseverance was in that quadrant. Many hundreds of names are compiled into a list based on each theme and are applied as the rover explores that quadrant. Rovers can sometimes end up exploring a quadrant for months, exhausting the list of names and prompting a new list to be drawn up.
Kansas :)
Third time lucky ;)
Same tube as last time - Serial number 060
A wider view of the traverse (1km scale bar)
Screen capture of the mission map with scalebar, the drive path is highlighted in yellow.
Drive Data from JPL:
Mars will always throw these curve balls :)
BTW - Did you notice that Curiosity rover is currently 778.6 meters above its landing site in Gale crater. Meanwhile outside Jezero, Perseverance is at 757.9 meters above its landing site :)
9-tile R-NavCam composite of the abrasion patch and the drilled hole
Drive data
This should fill in a few gaps for https://lemmy.world/u/SpecialSetOfSieves :)
I’m enjoying this walkabout, or should that be rove-about :)
Just a short bump to #32
Drive Data (from JPL)
Map (screen capture)
Data for the drive
Success…
Sample No. 26 Date Sealed: Jan. 28, 2025 Sol Sealed: 1401 Sample Name: Silver Mountain Feature Name: Shallow Bay Sampling Location: Witch Hazel Hill Current Location: Perseverance Rover Science Notes: N/A Sample Type: Rock Core Sample Height cm/in: 2.91 cm (1.14 inches)
Source - https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-2020-perseverance/mars-rock-samples/
As you noted the abrasion patch appeared extremely fragile, so I guess many of the team second guessed that there was a good chance the core would possibly break up with some left in the hole, or even lost while turning the drill to the horizontal position for transfer to the Cache. Fingers crossed they have enough…
You’re most welcome. There was a full description of which countries the parks were located that was in the source document. I’m still searching for that document. If I find the text or an update on newly named quadrants I’ll share it on this platform. Curiosity rover also had a number of quadrants named before landing, the quadrant the rover is in now (Bishop) was originally in another part of the crater it will never get the chance to visit, so they used it for the one they entered a few months ago. :)