A day on Mars: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Proper Navigation Digital camera (Navcam) to amass this picture after driving on sol 428. The view is behind the rover in the direction of the south, and the sting of the Kodiak mound is seen on the left facet of the picture. Credit score: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover was on the transfer this previous week after ending up distant science actions at Enchanted Lake, an publicity of finely layered rocks which will signify among the lowest deposits of the delta. The rover threaded its manner east round giant sandy dune ripples earlier than heading north en path to Hawksbill Hole, the place the group hopes to gather our first set of delta samples and ultimately ascend the delta entrance.
Planning this previous week at Jezero crater has principally targeted on making drive progress with extra reconnaissance imaging to scout our upcoming walkabout and help future planning for Mars Pattern Return. The group was in a position to reestablish communications with Ingenuity after the current anomaly and is continuous to assemble and analyze the info.
Mars Perseverance Sol 424 – Proper Mastcam-Z Digital camera: Mastcam-Z picture of rocks at Enchanted Lake. Credit score: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Perseverance is anticipated to reach at our first deliberate location, named Devils Tanyard, inside the subsequent few sols. There, we plan on abrading a recent floor and getting our eyes and devices up shut to analyze the rocks and establish potential sampling websites. This would be the first of probably 5 proximity science stops as we ascend Hawksbill Hole up the delta stratigraphy in the direction of a location named Rocky Prime.
After finishing this primary half of our walkabout, we plan on descending to pattern at three of our favourite websites. With these three pattern pairs, the group hopes so as to add to our Martian collectibles a set of fine-grained clay-bearing mudstones which are good candidates for preserving organics and potential historic microbes, in addition to coarser-grained sandstones to analyze materials washed down from past Jezero and to constrain the timing of previous lake exercise.
With every rover drive and pattern, the group continues to study extra about this as soon as watery crater and piece collectively the story written within the Martian rocks.
Written by Brad Garczynski, Scholar Collaborator at Purdue College.
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