Maybe it’s Mars, maybe it’s … Nevada? A 360-degree panorama taken by the Perseverance Rover on Mars looks a lot like many of Earth’s rocky desert landscapes. There is a slight color contrast, however. @ScienceAlert explains:
What a view from that ridge!
#Mars Aug. 8, 2025 - Sol 4623
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Boxwork trough and ridge captured in Stereo3D by Curiosity just six hours ago
To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye.
#Mars Aug. 8, 2025 - Sol 4623
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Curiosity Captures Mars Landscape While Talking to an Orbiter
Being able to combine tasks shortens the rover's daily plan, requiring less power from Curiosity's nuclear power source, called a multi-mission radioisotope thermonuclear generator (MMRTG).
Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New Skills
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/marking-13-years-on-mars-nasas-curiosity-picks-up-new-skills
Stereo3D views captured today 70 minutes apart, under different lighting conditions, by Perseverance
To go 3D: for each stereo pairs, eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye.
#Mars Aug. 3, 2025 - Sol 1583
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Percy's wheel welcomes onboard a handful of stones to travel along. Image captured three hours ago.
#Mars Aug. 1, 2025 - Sol 1581
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Plenty of new Mastcam mosaics captured by Perseverance these past few days. This one was acquired just 16 hours ago!
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#Mars July 31, 2025 - Sol 1580
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Mastcam-Z view captured two sols ago by Perseverance from her new vantage position
interactive zoom app: https://zoomhub.net/89VDb
#Mars July 29, 2025 - Sol 1578
Credits images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Impressive view of Curiosity standing on the resistant ridge between two hollows of the boxwork terrain
#Mars July 30, 2025 - Sol 4614
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Beautiful Martian vistas captured two days ago by Curiosity
#Mars July 26, 2025 - Sol 4611
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
The 33 sample tubes collected so far by Perseverance
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia26643-the-33-sample-tubes-collected-by-perseverance/
Feeling the Heat: Perseverance Looks for Evidence of Contact Metamorphism
by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/feeling-the-heat-perseverance-looks-for-evidence-of-contact-metamorphism/
Dust devil captured by Percy ten hours ago. These raw images are acquired four seconds apart.
#Mars July 21, 2025 - Sol 1571
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
I’ve mentioned a couple of times how the Rover P6 and the Triumph 2000 were ground-breaking products that established a new category, the executive saloon (annoying term but it’s the one that’s stuck). I thought I’d post the British duo’s predecessor models in order to illustrate why they represented such a dramatically ‘younger’, sportier, more stylish breed. This is the Rover P4, the stolid predecessor to the P6. Pics taken at the British Motor Museum.
Stereo3D view captured yesterday by Curiosity from the top of a ridge, at the start of the main boxwork region
To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel, left image for left eye, right image for right eye
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4602-4603-on-top-of-the-ridge/
#Mars July 20, 2025 - Sol 4605
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In 1976, the previously featured 3500 version of the Rover P6 (first photo) was replaced by the Rover 3500 SD1 (2nd and 3rd photos), a thoroughly modern and stylish hatchback design that used the same V8 engine. For the time being the four-cylinder versions of the Rover P6 and the Triumph 2000/2500, now both thirteen years old, soldiered on. Pics from the Practical Classics resto show in March. (1/2)
In the last week or two, I’ve set out Rover’s 1960s model development programme, which consisted of the P7 5/6-cylinder upgrade of the P6 (cancelled) the gas turbine T4 (cancelled), the P6BS/P9 mid-engined sports car (cancelled) and the big luxury P8 saloon (cancelled). Not cancelled - the Range Rover. A brilliant car but it could have been part of a whole range of brilliant cars, not just an isolated effort. Pic taken at the British Motor Museum in 2024
Today the car that would have been replaced by the recently featured Rover-based ‘Gladys’ or P6BS/P9, the Alvis TE 21, seen here at the British Motor Museum in 2024. This elegant body style originated with the Swiss coach-builder Graber but production switched to the UK as volumes increased. This 1965 example was one of the last of the original production run. (1/4)
A rival project at Rover to yesterday’s mid-engined P6BS/P9 was this more conservative design for a coupé version of the Rover P6, ‘Gladys’, seen here at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon. It was thought that if either car had made it to production, it might have been sold as an Alvis, although this one is clearly badged as a Rover. Alvis had been acquired by Rover in 1965, and Alvis engineers worked on the P6BS prototype.
