Latest drive (sol 1762) - 150 m
4mon 12d ago by lemmy.world/u/SpecialSetOfSieves in perseverancerover
Further post-drive info for mission context
Updated maps of Percy’s whereabouts as of this sol below. The outer rim of Jezero Crater is to the right. The sites of the two most recent rock abrasions, #50 and #51, are labelled in the first. The rover’s current position is marked with a cross. The second image is a higher-resolution view of the rover's immediate environs.
I wish I could tell Percy hi and that they're doing a great job
Post-drive notes for this sol:
The publicly available data says that the drive took 4.5 hours, but the rover stopped after 13:00 hours for at least 10 minutes to capture some images, so I think we can safely discount the reported drive duration.
I should also note that the rover made three very short drives on sols 1758, 1760 and 1761, amounting to less than 4 m total. I'm not quite sure what the intent was - based on the images we have in hand, it doesn't appear that the science team was trying to approach any particular target - so it may be that Percy experienced some drive errors. Nonetheless, we are well on the way to the big next science target, Lac de Charmes!