I just checked again, still no recent images. It’s normal after such an incident for the rovers to go quite while they decide on the best way forward. I would assume they are trying to recreate the issue on the rover in the mars yard facility. I’ve had a few looks at the DSN to see if they are communicating directly with the rover, as that is a good sign that they are getting engineering data directly rather than going through one of the orbiters. I’ve not seen any direct comms sessions direct on the DSN, but that could just be bad timing of my visits. I’ll check again today :) Fingers crossed they get Percy back in action soon :)
And to top it off they also have a MastCam-Z of a rock core in the drill / sample tube… No images yet from the CacheCam, but I guess they will wait until they see the MastCam-Z images before they return the drill / core into the cache :)
I just checked again, still no recent images. It’s normal after such an incident for the rovers to go quite while they decide on the best way forward. I would assume they are trying to recreate the issue on the rover in the mars yard facility. I’ve had a few looks at the DSN to see if they are communicating directly with the rover, as that is a good sign that they are getting engineering data directly rather than going through one of the orbiters. I’ve not seen any direct comms sessions direct on the DSN, but that could just be bad timing of my visits. I’ll check again today :) Fingers crossed they get Percy back in action soon :)
New images up - just a few NavCam shots, but we can see that the coring bit has been withdrawn from the hole. Good news, it would seem.
Great News indeed…
And to top it off they also have a MastCam-Z of a rock core in the drill / sample tube… No images yet from the CacheCam, but I guess they will wait until they see the MastCam-Z images before they return the drill / core into the cache :)