Thursday, June 02, 2022

NASA's Mars Perseverance & Curiosity Rovers—New June 2022 Images | JPL

NASA's Mars Perseverance & Curiosity Rovers—New June 2022 Images | JPL

Roving to Delta - Mars 2020 - Sol 395
    Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Thomas Appéré

Mars 2020 - Sol 454 - Mastcam-Z

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

Mars 2020 - Sol 449 - Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech


MSL - Sol 3489 - Mastcam
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill


Mars 2020 - Sol 456 - Mastcam-Z
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill

MSL - Sol 3487 - Mastcam
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Perseverance Rover Update:

Perseverance has continued into Hawksbill Gap, making remote sensing observations of small portions of outcropping rock layers in search of a good place to collect a sample. Since Perseverance is in the Shenandoah quadrangle, we are using target names from Shenandoah National Park. Some of the names this past week included “Bald_Face_Mountain,” “Little_Devil_Stairs,” “Sunset_Hill,” “Luck_Hollow,” and “Moody_Creek.” Perseverance logged nearly 400 meters of driving progress for the week of May 15-21, accumulating a total distance since landing of over 11.8 km as of Sol 446.

Caption Credit: Eleni Ravanis, Student Collaborator at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Release Date: June 2, 2022

Curiosity Rover Update:

Our intrepid rover engineers again successfully navigated Curiosity a little higher up Mount Sharp (~5 m) and ~40 m on the ground, away from our previous location. The terrain beneath the rover included striated, dusty bedrock and sand ripples with coarse lag deposits.

The environmental scientists planned several observations to continue monitoring changes in atmospheric conditions and the current dust storm within Gale crater. These included: Navcam line of sight images, a large dust devil survey, suprahorizon movies, a dust devil movie, and a zenith movie; and Mastcam basic and full tau observations.

Caption Credit: Lucy Thompson, Planetary Geologist, University of New Brunswick

Release Date: May 26, 2022


Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars


Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: November 6, 2011

Landing: August 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov


Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University/Thomas Appéré/Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: May 26-June 2, 2022


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