Meanwhile on Mars:
Perseverance rover checking out its coring bit and the fractured bedrock that broke up during drilling (image center). Attached is a 9-tile processed NavCam [3854x2894px] of the workspace, and a MastCam-Z image of the drill and its coring bit. No sign of a core in the drill bit in these images from sol 1535 (June 14, 2025)
Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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This is a 1993 proposal from French space agency CNES, described by François Costard in 1993. A long range rover would land in Kasei Valles, one of the giant channels on Mars, and drive over 300 km northwards. It would drop off three instrument packages (fixed stations) and investigate several different geological features and rock types.
We have seen rovers before but tomorrow we will see something brand new.
Odd rocks of Gale crater.
Curiosity Rover's ChemCam RMI captures the 'Layers at the base of the “Mishe Mokwa” hill'.
Long distance telescopic image from mission sol 4569 (June 13, 2025)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL
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Meanwhile of Mars:
An animation of three MastCam images from Curiosity rover from June 8, 2025 (Sol 4564) shows a portion test where small amounts of powdered rock from sample hole 43, is carefully dropped onto the closed port of the SAM instrument suite. If the team are happy with this test, they will command the rover to open the cover and drop a portion inside SAM for detailed analysis. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS #Curiosity #MSL #MarsRover #NASA #Science #Space #Solarocks #Mars #Sample
Meanwhile on the planet Mars:
Curiosity Rover drills its 43rd sample hole on June 8, 2025 (mission sol 4564) Attached is an animated GIF of HazCam subframe images captured during the drilling process. I've added the timestamps (local mars solar time) on each frame. Watch the shadow of the robotic arm move and the drill bit sink into the rock. Look closely and you can even see the rover tilt as the load on the drill changes NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Meanwhile on Mars!
Perseverance rover images its latest abrasion patch. For scale the patch has a diameter of about 5 cm (2") This image from its SHERLOC WATSON camera was acquired on June 5, 2025 (Sol 1526) at the local mean solar time of 12:26. Credits: NASA.JPL-Caltech.
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Perseverance rover using one of its abrasion bits in its rotary percussive drill, to remove the surface of a patch of rock during sol 1525 (June 4, 2025) for further investigation. The diameter of the bit is ~5 cm (2 inches).
Attached is a quick and dirty animated GIF using just 3 raw HazCam tiles. Credits: NASA.JPL-Caltech.
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Curiosity Rover's robotic arm workspace on mission sol 4554 (May 30, 2025) after a drive to the south-southwest of ~29 meters (~96 ft) and a climb of 2.6 meters (8.6ft). The mosaic was assembled from 15 overlapping Bayer-reconstructed L-MastCam sub-frame images. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk.
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Here's your daily dose of #MarsRover photography
Taken on 10/7/2017 by Curiosity with the FHAZ camera (Front Hazard Avoidance Camera)
Curiosity launched on 26/11/2011 and landed on Mars on 06/08/2012.
Here's your daily dose of #MarsRover photography
Taken on 13/4/2023 by Curiosity with the FHAZ camera (Front Hazard Avoidance Camera)
Curiosity launched on 26/11/2011 and landed on Mars on 06/08/2012.
Curiosity Rover's robotic arm workspace on mission sol 4552 (May 27, 2025) after a drive to the southwest of 42.5 meters (~140 ft). Bayer reconstructed L-MastCam sub-frame images. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk.
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Here's your daily dose of #MarsRover photography
Taken on 14/6/2017 by Curiosity with the FHAZ camera (Front Hazard Avoidance Camera)
Curiosity launched on 26/11/2011 and landed on Mars on 06/08/2012.
Curiosity rover drives during mission sol 4552 (May 27, 2025) to RMC site 116.1596. Here a selection of post-drive engineering camera images roughly stitched together, featuring the terrain in front of the rover.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Here's your daily dose of #MarsRover photography
Taken on 21/6/2020 by Curiosity with the FHAZ camera (Front Hazard Avoidance Camera)
Curiosity launched on 26/11/2011 and landed on Mars on 06/08/2012.
This Sol 1515 MastCam-Z looks like it's setting the scene for a Pareidolia party.
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Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Mars Guy Episode 216:
Curiosity Rover enters bizarre terrain.
Nearly two decades after they were first discovered, the Curiosity rover has begun to explore web-like features known as boxwork structures. Answers to how they formed and why they’re bigger than any on Earth are now emerging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cECxDMnDvBU
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At the same time as the network mission concepts, just before Viking, the first rovers were being considered. They were called Viking Rovers. They would drive to various sites for analysis and in one variant collect samples for return to the lander for more thorough analysis. Here are two of the suggested rover sites and traverses. The top example is near a volcano in Elysium, the bottom one on lava plains in Syrtis Major Planum. These were the first rover plans for Mars.
Here's your daily dose of #MarsRover photography
Taken on 13/10/2019 by Curiosity with the FHAZ camera (Front Hazard Avoidance Camera)
Curiosity launched on 26/11/2011 and landed on Mars on 06/08/2012.
