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Curiosity has climbed 999.15m up Mount Sharp, the next drive should reach over one kilometer (lemmy.world)
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Here's its new workspace after the drive. This is a mosaic of 15 overlapping mast camera images that were deBayered prior to assembly.

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[–] [S] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

360 degree NavCam panorama assembled from 31 overlapping images. Note that several of the images have data drop out (small dark rectangles, but one can still see the terrain around the rover

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    What's with the censored areas?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 months ago

    What’s with the censored areas? Not censored, it's just data drop-out happens from time to time after all the craft is 174.8 million miles from Earth, and those images have been transmitted to a Mars orbiter, then to a ground station on Earth and then transmitted to JPL, sometimes data gets messed up on the way :)

    JPL sometimes orders the rover to re-transmit important affected images, check the image server again in a day or two and you may see these have been replaced with images that have no drop-out.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I'm not sure. In the case of Perseverance, I know that they block out those goddamned instances when the sandworms photobomb the panoramas, but I don't blame JPL for that - those things are repulsive.

    We do know that Curiosity has some overly aggressive tendencies when it comes to small furry mammals. I hope the rover AI hasn't gone on another rampage and tried to hide the evidence again. It takes months to remove the organic matter contamination from the instruments.

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