WATSON zooms in on Martian rocks

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NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is focusing its science instruments on rocks that lay on the floor of Jezero Crater. WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) is located on the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument, at the end of Perseverance’s robotic arm. On 10 May 2021, the 79th Martian day for Perseverance, WATSON was used to take a closer look at nearby rocks.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Observation using WATSON
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It is incredible to now get some cameras so quickly in to space and in the case Mars, that are not superseded by the time they get there! This may not be a video of any excitement for the masses but Jesus that is some great high res.

sandmansevenseven
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Incredible suite of instruments on this rover!

AtheistRex
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I spotted what looked a few of those "blueberries" in the final closeups.

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Great video, thanks for your kind share. Please upload similar contents in future. 🙃🚀

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i wonder why the martian surface is so vastly uniform in color. if earth would look different after 4B years with no atmosphere, baking in the sun and radiation? i doubt it. We have so many colorful types of rock because of plate tectonic, percolating crust, vulcanism and former biomass. ...and on mars we always see this blueish rock with iron oxide. thats why i highly doubt, there was anything more than maybe fungi on mars.

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