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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mars Rock Rochette
APOD.NASA.gov ^
| 28 Aug, 2021
| Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech
Posted on 08/28/2021 2:31:21 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Taken on mission sol 180 (August 22) this sharp image from a Hazard Camera on the Perseverance rover looks out across a rock strewn floor of Jezero crater on Mars. At 52.5 centimeters (21 inches) in diameter, one of the rover's steerable front wheels is at lower left in the frame. Near center is a large rock nicknamed Rochette. Mission planners don't want to avoid Rochette though. Instead Perseverance will be instructed to reach out with its 2 meter long robotic arm and abrade the rock's surface, to determine whether it has a consistency suitable for obtaining a sample, slightly thicker than a pencil, using the rover's coring bit. Samples collected by Perseverance would be returned to Earth by a future Mars mission.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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08/28/2021 2:31:36 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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Pinging the APOD list.
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08/28/2021 2:32:10 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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Rockettes:
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posted on
08/28/2021 2:49:37 PM PDT
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Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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posted on
08/28/2021 3:02:17 PM PDT
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null and void
(No jab/no job=only the compliant can work, they won't spread dangerous ideas around the workplace!)
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posted on
08/28/2021 3:08:22 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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An old Viking long house foundation
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posted on
08/28/2021 3:36:12 PM PDT
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knarf
(qa)
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08/28/2021 3:37:24 PM PDT
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DannyTN
To: null and void; Daffynition
Mission planners don't want to avoid Rochette though. Instead Perseverance will be instructed to reach out with its 2 meter long robotic arm and ... A well I'll give you love
That's above and beyond the call of luh-uh-love
And I'll never ever make you cry
A yes I'll give you love
That's above and beyond the call of luh-uh-love
And love's something that money can't buy
Samples collected by Perseverance would be returned to Earth by a future Mars mission.
We met by chance and I knew at a glance
That I'd found my destiny
Now I want to carry you off and marry you
If you will agree.
Above And Beyond - Buck Owens
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posted on
08/28/2021 3:51:00 PM PDT
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Ezekiel
("Come fly with US". Ingenuity-- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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posted on
08/28/2021 4:28:44 PM PDT
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ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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Pizza stone. Must be a brick oven nearby.
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08/28/2021 4:51:17 PM PDT
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Larry Lucido
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Now you’ve done it.
That looks too good.
Kitchen, here I come.
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08/28/2021 4:57:14 PM PDT
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ComputerGuy
(Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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08/28/2021 5:47:37 PM PDT
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Larry Lucido
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That photo is Arizona. Yes....but WHERE in Arizona?
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08/29/2021 3:59:04 AM PDT
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MtnClimber
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