A mosaic of 22 left MastCam images from sol 4810 (February 16, 2026)
The images were deBayered prior to assembly in MS-ICE. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Fredk
I cannot believe Curiosity has been on Mars for almost fourteen years and is still fucking operational. Mindblowing.
A little wounded after all that time, but still operational, gathering science data, and still traversing to new science waypoints.
Here’s the post-drive deBayered workspace (assembled from 15 overlapping images) :)
There is little to be said for the current state of the world, but this, this is among the few genuinely good things we have. A robot on another planet, taking pictures so detailed you can pick out individual pieces of gravel. Absolutely amazing, NASA represents the absolutely best about the USA- ingenuity, creativity, engineering prowess, fortitude, and of course, curiosity. If only it would be the guiding principle for the rest of the society, what a world it could have been.
If only it would be the guiding principle for the rest of the society, what a world it could have been.
The world is a messy state at the moment, but we’ve got through dark times before. There’s always light at the end of the tunnel, even if it’s rather dim.
Details / Stats of the drive
This is super cool, thanks for sharing!
Partial panorama looking North.
Assembled from overlapping left NavCam images in MS-ICE.
credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Maps: 20 & 200 meters scales
The path of this drive is highlighted in yellow
All of this is amazing, thank you so much for posting all of this. Very impress, much follow.
Lot’s here and more on the Mars 2020 thread https://lemmy.world/c/perseverancerover?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New
