Curiosity has climbed 999.15m up Mount Sharp, the next drive should reach over one kilometer

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curiosityrover·NASA's Curiosity Mars Roverbypaulhammond5155

Curiosity has climbed 999.15m up Mount Sharp, the next drive should reach over one kilometer

Here's its new workspace after the drive. This is a mosaic of 15 overlapping mast camera images that were deBayered prior to assembly.

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paulhammond5155

lemmy.world

Front HazCam view (after the drive)

saltesc reply

lemmy.world

Always weird seeing these photos and remembering it's near instant death if standing there.

paulhammond5155 reply

lemmy.world

it’s near instant death if standing there.

Bring your own spacesuit with adequate heating and a good supply of oxygen and you'd be OK, until they ran out...

saltesc reply

lemmy.world

looks at bank account

If the hitchhiking isn't bad, I reckon I can sort the rest out at a hardware store. I dunno where to get oxygen from, but can just ask around when I get there.

paulhammond5155 reply

lemmy.world

can just ask around when I get there.

Pop over to Perseverance rover and turn on MOXIE, it can make oxygen, maybe enough to last you for a few hours ;)

paulhammond5155

lemmy.world

360 degree NavCam panorama assembled from 31 overlapping images. Note that several of the images have data drop out (small dark rectangles, but one can still see the terrain around the rover

CannonFodder reply

lemmy.world

What's with the censored areas?

SpecialSetOfSieves reply

lemmy.world

I'm not sure. In the case of Perseverance, I know that they block out those goddamned instances when the sandworms photobomb the panoramas, but I don't blame JPL for that - those things are repulsive.

We do know that Curiosity has some overly aggressive tendencies when it comes to small furry mammals. I hope the rover AI hasn't gone on another rampage and tried to hide the evidence again. It takes months to remove the organic matter contamination from the instruments.

paulhammond5155 reply

lemmy.world

What’s with the censored areas? Not censored, it's just data drop-out happens from time to time after all the craft is 174.8 million miles from Earth, and those images have been transmitted to a Mars orbiter, then to a ground station on Earth and then transmitted to JPL, sometimes data gets messed up on the way :)

JPL sometimes orders the rover to re-transmit important affected images, check the image server again in a day or two and you may see these have been replaced with images that have no drop-out.