Mars Perseverance Sol 286– Right Navigation Camera: NAVCAM image looking southeast towards our return journey around Se ́ítah. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
While numerous assess the past and quote it goodbye, there’s a great deal of interesting science to come in the next year. While numerous were taking pleasure in the days in between the Christmas and New Year vacations in the United States, at JPL we were working to end up tasting activities atIssole We’ll quickly bid an Auld Lang Syne to the Séítah area.
As lead Mapping Specialist, I get to delight in taking a look at the roadway ahead for the rover. We’ll begin by looping back around Se ́ítah east, following our course back towards the Octavia E. Butler Landing website, then curling counter-clockwise to the delta front. In this objective rewind, we get a possibility to take a look at a few of the appealing outcrops we have actually seen prior to like at Citadelle (where we initially got cores 1 & & 2, around the sol 180 position on August 21, 2021), maybe a makeover at the distinct layering at Mure (sol 168 on August 8, 2021), and even a few of the rocks we didn’t get as near to as we desired, simply east of the landing website (sol 73 on May fourth (be with you!), 2021).
Remember to follow along as we check out with NASA‘s online rover map that we upgrade each time we drive. My New Year’s resolution for the objective is to continue bringing you brand-new maps and assist researchers discover the very best rocks for the rover to check out throughout 2022!
Written by Fred Calef III, Mapping Specialist at NASA/JPL.
