NASA's Mars Perseverance & Curiosity Rovers—New June 2022 Images | JPL
Mars 2020 - Sol 454 - Mastcam-Z
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill
Mars 2020 - Sol 449 - Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera
Perseverance has continued into Hawksbill Gap, making remote sensing observations of small portions of outcropping rock layers in search of a good place to collect a sample. Since Perseverance is in the Shenandoah quadrangle, we are using target names from Shenandoah National Park. Some of the names this past week included “Bald_Face_Mountain,” “Little_Devil_Stairs,” “Sunset_Hill,” “Luck_Hollow,” and “Moody_Creek.” Perseverance logged nearly 400 meters of driving progress for the week of May 15-21, accumulating a total distance since landing of over 11.8 km as of Sol 446.
Caption Credit: Eleni Ravanis, Student Collaborator at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Release Date: June 2, 2022
Curiosity Rover Update:
Our intrepid rover engineers again successfully navigated Curiosity a little higher up Mount Sharp (~5 m) and ~40 m on the ground, away from our previous location. The terrain beneath the rover included striated, dusty bedrock and sand ripples with coarse lag deposits.
The environmental scientists planned several observations to continue monitoring changes in atmospheric conditions and the current dust storm within Gale crater. These included: Navcam line of sight images, a large dust devil survey, suprahorizon movies, a dust devil movie, and a zenith movie; and Mastcam basic and full tau observations.
Caption Credit: Lucy Thompson, Planetary Geologist, University of New Brunswick
Release Date: May 26, 2022
Mission Name: Mars 2020
Rover Name: Perseverance
Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.
Launch: July 30, 2020
Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars
Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Rover Name: Curiosity
Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life.
Launch: November 6, 2011
Landing: August 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars
For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov
Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University/Thomas Appéré/Kevin M. Gill
Image Release Dates: May 26-June 2, 2022
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