NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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Post-wildfire Lonely Martians thread (self.perseverancerover)

submitted 5 days ago by SpecialSetOfSieves to c/perseverancerover

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Just making a thread for anyone who wants to commiserate about the lack of new images from Percy of late. Mods, feel free to delete if this doesn't belong here.

We shouldn't ever forget that many many JPL employees have lost their homes, which is more than just a "bummer". They might be launching their stuff into space, but the work of people at the lab is appreciated and its absence is felt in people's daily lives too.

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[–] SpecialSetOfSieves 6 points 5 days ago

In the last 48 h the JPL website has had trouble serving up the raw images page, which is pretty frustrating when you're working on any projects associated with this mission. Percy has already seen and done a lot in ~4 Earth years, so there is one hell of a lot to review if you're trying to be thorough...