"Crafting by hand is not just about creating something beautiful; it's a dialogue with the soul where each stitch narrates stories of passion, patience, and perseverance." — Anaya Hansford
#Handmade #Artisan #Creativity #Passion #Perseverance #Craftsmanship #MakerCulture
@PaulHammond51
“The data we obtain now from rocks like Kenmore will help future missions so they don’t have to think about weird, uncooperative rocks. Instead, they’ll have a much better idea whether you can easily drive over it, […] or if it would be suitable to use as construction material for a habitat.”, said Ken Farley.
Well, I guess the latter 
By the way, that post, https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/nasas-perseverance-rover-scours-mars-for-science/, is one of the best posts in recent times by the #Perseverance team, IMO.
Perseverance rover's drill attempting to create an abrasion patch during June 27, 2025 (Sol 1547). This animation is assembled from 15 raw images, that captured by one of its front hazard avoidance cameras, over a period of about 10 minutes. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Beautiful Mars
Just out of the magic factory of the Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State University, the 360° Panorama #45 Falkbreen, Sol 1516 (May 26, 2025), in two processing flavors:
natural color https://zoomhub.net/NVg7G enhanced color https://zoomhub.net/Zx87R
When we say gDRT "puffed" a rock, this (video) is what we mean:
More on that, and on what #Perseverance was doing to rock Kenmore, in a new post by its team:
Notes:
• The name of the AutoNav software reappears alone in this post, where in some previous ones the shitty term "AI" had been used.
• The rover set a new record of autonomous driving (411m) on Sol 1540.
A picture taken yesterday by Perseverance, featuring the COVID-19 Memorial plate on the left side of the rover chassis. It commemorates the impact of the pandemic and pays tribute to the perseverance of healthcare workers around the world.
#Mars June 25, 2025 - Sol 1545
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
More insights:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia23921-healthcare-workers-to-be-honored-on-mars/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/5-hidden-gems-are-riding-aboard-nasas-perseverance-rover/
Free Yourself and Your Writing Will Follow: Killing Self-Censorship
#AuthorinProgress #conflict #Editing #Lamentations #perseverance
@indieauthors
An exciting find at Krokodillen: phyllosilicates
These minerals primarily form by extensive interactions between basaltic rocks and liquid water. They are excellent at preserving organic materials, if present, by adsorbing them or encapsulating them within their mineral structure.
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/clay-minerals-from-mars-most-ancient-past/
As it turns out, that abrasion, named Laknes, was on clay minerals (phyllosilicates) and that was that got #Perseverance's team excited.
Read more:
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/clay-minerals-from-mars-most-ancient-past/
#Perseverance is revisiting a location it drove through 40 sols ago. The annotations give an idea about where the rover has been during this period.
New site, RMC 76.000. Localization is approximate.
Annotations show the path
Processed, undistorted, leveled NAVCAM_RIGHT
looking SSE (153°) from RMC 76.0000
Sol 1542, LMST: 12:51:28
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
@PaulHammond51
Whatever it is that #Perseverance is looking for there, it won't have much luck getting a sample from, me thinks. Maybe not even a decent abrasion. But a bad abrasion with a similar black vein in it, like the last one, would be quite a finding.
Quickly processed, undistorted, leveled FRONT_HAZCAM_LEFT_A
looking NNE (19°) from RMC 75.2358
Sol 1540, LMST: 15:39:55
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
@PaulHammond51
#Perseverance went back to where it was on Sol 1502. Something is going on there…
Here is a closer map and a leveled NAVCAM mosaic:
Processed, undistorted, leveled NAVCAM_LEFT mosaic
looking SW (216°) from RMC 75.2358
Sol 1540, LMST: 15:57:27
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
Meanwhile on Mars:
Perseverance Rover looks back after a 4.5 hour long drive, heading north the drive distance was ~404 meters.
This post-drive image was acquired by one of the rover's navigation cameras.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
