Posted on 01/30/2023 10:55:39 AM PST by Ezekiel
Flight Log
Flight 41
Sol 689
Date Jan. 27, 2023
Horizontal Distance 183 m ~600 ft
Max. Altitude 10 m ~33 ft
Max. Groundspeed 3 m/s ~6.7 mph
Duration 109.1 seconds
Route of Flight Airfield Beta
Flights
41
(as of 1/27/23)
Distance Flown
8,191 meters
(~26,875 ft)
Highest Altitude
14 meters
(~46 ft)
Fastest Ground Speed
5.50 m/s
(12.3 mph)
Flight Time
~67.7 minutes
(4,060 seconds)
Have they beat Southwest yet?...............
Astonishing. What was the design lifetime? 5 or 10 flights?
In related news:
Ten sample tubes, capturing an amazing variety of Martian geology, have been deposited on Mars’ surface so they could be studied on Earth in the future.Less than six weeks after it began, construction of the first sample depot on another world is complete.
Confirmation that NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover successfully dropped the 10th and final tube planned for the depot was received around 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST) Sunday, Jan. 29, by mission controllers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
This major milestone involved precision planning and navigation to ensure the tubes could be safely recovered in the future by the NASA-ESA (European Space Agency) Mars Sample Return campaign, which aims to bring Mars samples to Earth for closer study.
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What the heck? Where did those 5 perfectly aligned holes come from - just to the left of the rock?
I don’t see any tracks or disturbance of the ground to indicate the rover did that.
5 at best. They didn’t even figure on leaving “Wright Brothers Field”.
Best “proof of concept” on the planet. 🤓
Southwest, left behind.
It’s astonishing what diverse teams can accomplish, right? (jk)
Notice that the rock is smiling big.
I always thought the ‘sample tube’ dropped on the surface was an incredibly stupid idea.
The wind is going to cover them with dirt, and the next rover has to cover the exact same route to pick them up- instead of a new route into new areas.
They had the storage space to hold the empty tubes, why not just return them to there.
A new rover is going to go there with empty storage spaces, essentially making 2 missions out of one.
Apparently OZ has the distinction of having fossils of the oldest living beings on earth: Stromatolites .....
Apparently this has something to do with Mars as they try to explain the Martians now living in Queensland ?
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/24695/researching-outback-stromatolites/
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These samples, known as the “sample depot,” will serve as a backup set while others remain inside the rover, which would be the primary means to hand off samples to a Sample Retrieval Lander as part of the #MarsSampleReturn campaign.
https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1620110711669280768
Reminds me of the memes about the Hunley discovery. A "Reelect Strom Thurmond" sticker had been found on a bulkhead.
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Yes.
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