Processed to highlight the features - raw image https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00915/ids/edr/browse/shrlc/SIF_0915_0748170032_933EBY_N0450000SRLC00749_0000LMJ01.png
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
12 points (100.0% liked)
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
1450 readers
78 users here now
On the plains of Jezero, the secrets of Mars' past await us! Follow for the latest news, updates, pretty pics, and community discussion on NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's most ambitious mission to Mars!
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
That was sample #21 - They just updated the Samples page (see: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-rock-samples/#21)
Pilot mountain was cored on sol 882, but no capping / sealing was imaged until 913. I believe this was a repeat issue that they experienced earlier in the mission with another sample. We've experienced several 'Quite Days' where the rover did very little after they cored Pilot Mountain. I am assuming that those quite days were attempts by the team at JPL to understand more about the capping / sealing issue. Hopefully they have bottomed out the issue, else we could expect to see more delays like this...