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Written by 65dBnoise on 2025-02-04 at 14:56

Half an hour after noon, #Perseverance moved a few meters west of yestersol's location, changed to a new site number, RMC 68.0000, and… has already abraded a rock inside its new workspace:

EDIT: Now showing the official localization.

EDIT 2: @JV_Honza notes that the abrasion is old.

Processed, undistorted, leveled, cropped NAVCAM_RIGHT

looking SE (136°) from RMC 68.0000

Sol 1408, LMST: 13:37:55

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01408/ids/edr/browse/ncam/NRF_1408_0791939142_987ECM_N0680000NCAM00709_08_095J01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

[#]Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

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Written by 65dBnoise on 2025-02-04 at 19:07

As it turns out, the abrasion is old, since Sol 1360. I did check to see if that was the case, but absentmindedly only for Sol 1359, when the rover had previously arrived at that same location. My apologies for that.

The fact that the rover returned to a location that's been already examined, along with the change of site number, may be indications that we may see another sample taken from this area.

h/t to @JV_Honza

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