Perseverance rover acquired this image of the coring bit located in the Carousel using its SHERLOC WATSON camera, located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm. The image has been rotated to correct the orientation of the carousel.

This image was acquired on June 18, 2025 (Sol 1538) at the local mean solar time of 15:21:21.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera at full zoom. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast. No obvious damage is seen and they managed to remove the coring bit that was being used when the coring operation shattered the bedrock.

This image was acquired on June 18, 2025 (Sol 1538) at the local mean solar time of 15:08:18.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Perseverance rover acquired this image using its onboard Sample Caching System Camera (CacheCam), located inside the rover underbelly. It looks down into the top of a sample tube to take close-up pictures of the sampled material and the tube as it's prepared for sealing and storage.

The tube can be reused for further coring attempts

This image was acquired on June 18, 2025 (Sol 1538) at the local mean solar time of 14:28:07.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

SHERLOC WATSON camera, located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm. Checks out a section of the bedrock broken during a failed coring attempt a week ago

This image was acquired on June 18, 2025 (Sol 1538) at the local mean solar time of 13:20:39.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

MastCam-Z at full zoom checks out the fractured bedrock where the rover tried to core a few days ago. I've processed the image to pull out the details as the raw image was a little over exposed. Hope that they acquire some SuperCam close-ups :) Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

No sign of a rock core in the drill be. I'm assuming the coring process was halted when the rock broke up

Not sure if this was successful, seeing a little sideways slip in the drill and possible break up of the upper layers of the rock. Need more of these raw HazCam tiles to get a better idea of what's going on during the entire coring process, but this is all we have so far....

More later

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We'll know for sure when more images come down, but I'd wager this is the start of the drilling process. NASA/JPL-Caltech

Taken approximately 45 min after sunset on Sol 1528 (original NavCam frames here and here).

Bright white streak at far right - noctilucent cloud?

Mission update - Published June 6, 2025

Here's a MastCam-Z image, checking out the condition of its rotary percussive drill and the abrasion bit used to create the patch. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Meanwhile on Mars!

Perseverance rover images its latest abrasion patch. For scale the patch has a diameter of about 5 cm (2") This image from its SHERLOC WATSON camera was acquired on June 5, 2025 (Sol 1526) at the local mean solar time of 12:26. Credits: NASA.JPL-Caltech.

HazCam GIF using a few raw tiles shows the abrasion tool in action during sol 1525 (June 4, 2025) - NASA/JPL-Caltech

12 tile post-drive HazCam . Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/U of A

I've corrected the number of drives in this version. I was unknowingly counting non-drives (e.g a site number change without moving) . I've now added the Traverse JSON as an additional data source. This provides some additional data, such as drive times and the Traverse JSON data also makes it simpler to count the actual numbers of drives.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Looking back after the drive 80 minute drive 2-tile pot-drive L-NavCam Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Perseverance rover acquired this image using its SHERLOC Autofocus and Context Imager (ACI), located on the turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm.

This image was acquired on May 31, 2025 (Sol 1521) at the local mean solar time of 21:33:47. (hours after sunset)

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Thanks to the action of wind and sand and time on Mars, strange rock formations arise that occasionally resemble familiar features while other times they just look bizarre. The latest example from Perseverance seems to merge the two.

Post-drive - 4-tile L-NavCam - NASA/JPL-Caltech

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