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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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This photo was selected by public vote and featured as "Image of the Week" for Week 204 (Jan. 5 - 11, 2025) of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars.

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast.

The raw image was acquired on Jan. 7, 2025 (Sol 1381) at the local mean solar time of 11:29:32.

I have roughly processed this image. The raw image can be found here

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

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[โ€“] SpecialSetOfSieves 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mmmmmmmmm ๐Ÿฝ

Massive dust-free jointed angular boulder faces, served on a bed of saltating basaltic grains, with light-toned speckles and a light purple Jezero-style coating, delicately applied.

Carbon-restricted dining at its finest. 3/5 stars.

[โ€“] paulhammond5155 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

ICYMI - a preprint of a paper regarding those delicately applied coatings

The paper is apparently awaiting peer review, and seems it's a very large download, maybe because it contains some full size images?

https://fosstodon.org/@[email protected]/113817556901777991