mars.nasa.gov Daily Records of Atmospheric Temperature With Perseverance - NASA
Atmospheric temperature is a meteorological variable of daily concern to humans.
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I've had times when I felt I was shouting in the dark on a number of different platforms over the years, but those community don't last long as they usually grow. The Mars communities here on Lemmy have grown nicely since I came over here from Reddit. I'm sort of paying it forward for all those that preceded me that gave me joy in the late 50's and 60's when I was young developing space nerd. I simply gather the data / images to satisfy my own curiosity. Sharing it with a few like minded souls, is only but a few clicks in this digital age :)
Just sharing the passion :)
MSR is expected to have up to 2 Ingenuity class helicopters. Each will be equipped with small wheels on each landing leg (for driving up to sample tubes) and have a small robotic arm (to pick up sample tubes)
Perseverance Mastcam-Z videos of Ingenuity's 54th Flight on Mars
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2953049
back to back videos of the same flight, each video was recorded by the left and right MastCam-Z cameras at different zoom levels. Watch until the end :) Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/James Sorenson
Check this ! - Ingenuity just before taking off on Flight 54
Processed by James Sorenson. High on the list of my favourites mission images (so far) Distance 57.3 meters. We're still waiting for the movie frames the rover captured during flight 54, those movies will be rather special :)
Expertly processed - Helicopter images the Rover by James Sorenson (Flight #54)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/James Sorenson
Helicopter captures rover during flight on Aug 4, 2023 (sol 872)
This is a very roughly processed image from the helicopter's 54 flight, a test to reset it's localization data after having issues on the 53rd fight.
Data /Stats for the drive on August 4th (sol 872)
Data taken from JPL's JSON URL's
Descent NavCam image from Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at the end of its flight #54 - August 4, 2023 :)
Short drive for Perseverance - Site 43/0 - Aug 4, 2023 (sol 872)
Daily Records of Atmospheric Temperature With Perseverance (New mission Blog)
Flight 54 Preview - A pop-up test flight for heli-localization
Location map after the drive on August 2, 2023) Sol 871)
Drive data - August 2, 2023 (sol 871)
JPL's JSON drive data in a table
Meet the Mars Samples: Shuyak and Mageik (Samples 14 and 15)
Learn more about Samples No. 14 and 15 – “Shuyak” and “Mageik,” a pair of sedimentary rock core samples that excite scientists because, on Earth, this type of sedimentary rock preserves signs of life for a very long time. If that same process also occurs on Mars, it could help us understand if life ever existed there.
Ingenuity from 14 meters
Perseverance on its way to RMC 42.2700 made a stop to take a picture of its companion, Ingenuity, at RMC 42.2360. The team apparently intended the image to be very detailed so they used Mastcam-Z with a focal length of 110mm from a distance of 14m!
Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm Sol: 871, RMC: 42.2360, LMST: 13:13:30 Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00871/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_0871_0744265587_568EBY_N0422360ZCAM05155_1100LMJ01.png Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
Source: https://fosstodon.org/@65dBnoise@mastodon.social/110822316687935759
Flight 53 may have had issues. It was much shorter than planned, and only reached an altitude of 5 meters, plus we have missing data and no images.
It could be messed up data from the helicopter, or there could be a problem with the helicopter. Whatever it was the helicopter is safe on the ground and even sent images from earlier flights after landing. But the lack of images from flight 53 is very odd.
Nice to see you again :) (sol 870 after another drive)
More info soon
868 post-drive map with scale - Includes estimated location of flight 53 landing site.
Awaiting the JSON data from JPL to formalise the location and path of the flight
Ingenuity spotted after flight 53 - Northeast of the rover on sol 868 - MastCam-Z at 63mm zoom. Estimated distance just over 200 meters
Need JSON data to establish the precise distance but that will have to wait until JPL release the data. Credits for spotting it to Mars Stu, and reported by @65dBnoise@mastodon.social
868 - Another drive to the West - About 75 meters. Ingenuity flight 52 landing site is about 90 meters WSW in the yellow rectangle
I cant see the helicopter in the image, it should be on the bank of Fall River Pass, so it's either behind the rocky terrain or it may have already flown north for flight #53.
This image was assembled from 16 tiles. Zoom in for full resolution.
No formal drive data or map yet, I'll post that ASAP. Watch this space