I'm just so aggravated right now with the loss of even more web resources. Now it's the DSN . I get 404 now and lost the Mars world map with all the current missions and their relationships. I can still see the antennas but now mars actual at 2020 or Curiosity is gone. I've looked for hours for it. Last year we lost the three dimensional rover you could drill down on to get extended information about science and engineering payloads. We lost the scrolling banner at the top of many Mars page's that gave current blog, or mission articles, news, etc. now we have to dig to get it, except for here. With out this community (Paul and Special) we would be completely lost. I truly hope we don't loose the location map or raw image server.

A close up of the latest abrasion patch on Mars. The diameter of the patch is ~5cm (2 inches). Perseverance rover acquired this image using its SHERLOC WATSON camera, located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm.

This image was acquired on April 18, 2025 (Sol 1479) at the local mean solar time of 12:54:46.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Some quick analysis:

• Not the cleanest, neatest abrasion, as we see from the broken outline from 10 to 12 o'clock, but at least this stuff didn't fracture badly, like the one further downhill that we made just last week (#38), or two other ones we made on this side of the crater rim (#36 and #33). Surprisingly, we successfully sampled the latter two, so #39 may be a candidate for drilling as well.
• The target rock seems reasonably hard (note that the chisel marks - those lines radiating outward from the centre - are well-preserved and easily visible), which is not always the case: see #32, which crumbled into dus

Post-drive tiled-navigation camera image Sol 1478 (April 17. 2025). NASA/JPL-Caltech

Data

Map

A new 5cm diameter abrasion patch imaged with the SHERLOC WATSON camera from different distances. We can see some chipping of the target in the second image. Hopefully the fragile rock won't cause issues if they decide to attempt to core here. The images were acquired earlier today (April 12, 2025, Sol 1473 at site 72.0). I've stretched the contrast a little to highlight the textures. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

See also this post for a discussion of the published paper Mars Guy is discussing in the video.

Attached is a roughly processed / cropped post-drive L-NavCam composite image from 6 tiles, the drive data, and screen capture of the updated mission map. The traverse distance was 14.5 meters (47.5 ft) due west. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UofA.

Right side Mast Camera (full zoom 110mm)

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

The main image is a post drive 4-tile NavCam image acquired just after local noon. Below is the drive data extracted from JPL's M2020 JSON URL

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A drive by Perseverance rover took it to site 71.696 during Sol 1468 (April 7, 2025) The attached image is one of the end-of-drive navigation camera 4-tile composite images. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

I'll post the map and JSON data in the comments of this post as soon as JPL release it

Episode 209 Perseverance is a robotic field geologist equipped with a toolkit that’s better than any available to a human geologist on Earth. It uses a drill and abrading bit to get a look inside rocks, which is a great substitute for a rock hammer, except when it isn’t.