NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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1311 - Drive - Downslope - White rocks anyone? :) (lemmy.world)

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Sol 1131 - end-of-drive 4-tile processed NavCam at site 91-1928 (October 27, 2024

Still waiting for the official data, but it looks to be close to 50 meters Northeast of its position on sol 1308

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[–] paulhammond5155 3 points 3 weeks ago

Can mean a lot of things, sometimes they could be metamorphic rocks. Basically they are interesting because this rover has not conducted any contact science on a white rock since arriving in Jezero crater. Only once they've completed an investigation will we know what type it is