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@65dBnoise
It looks like a sonic screwdriver.

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Tom Montgomery

@65dBnoise

The final step in the Sample Handling System, and it seems to be working as intended. 🙂

The process appears to have started around 13:00 LMST with the selected sample presented to the Vision Station, presumably to verify the serial number. And the tube is shown lying on the ground at 13:52, so less than an hour elapsed time.

Perhaps the whole process uses up a lot of the daily power budget, and this is why it will take 30 sols to deposit 10 samples? 🤔

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@65dBnoise
I can't help thinking some alien will come along and see this rover dropping stuff and say, oh that's what it excretes...

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65dBnoise

The tube appears to be at the Vision Station, getting ready to meet the ground where it'll stay for the next 6 years, or for eternity.

The second tube that's visible is a reflection of the one in the foreground on a shinny metal panel.

EDIT: It's next to the Vision Station but not *at* it.

Processed SHERLOC_WATSON
RMC: 32.0148, Sol: 653, LMST: 13:17:05
Link: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#SamplingMars #Perseverance #Mars2020 #solarocks #space

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65dBnoise

And here is how the drop looked during testing:

Source: mars.nasa.gov/news/9323/nasas-

#SamplingMars #Perseverance #Mars2020 #solarocks #space

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Tom Montgomery

@65dBnoise
Will the samples be deposited in the order they were acquired?

This first one to be dropped has seal #062, which is the Roubion atmospheric sample, from Sol 164.

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65dBnoise

It appears that the drop location shown in earlier images by #NASA/JPL is very close to the actual one. In the animation above which shows the test drop, the tube appears coming down on the left side and close to the front of the rover, which is also where it appears in the plan.

jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-persev

Georeferenced NASA/JPL image superimposed on #HiRISE orhtomosaic using #QGIS and #GIMP

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #solarocks #space

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Per Ahlberg

@65dBnoise Perseverance finds Jedi light sabre on Mars!!!

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eidolies

@65dBnoise « Alright, I'm leaving it here at this place somewhere in the universe, and another bot will eventually come here find it and carry it 89 millions kilometers farther. »

No need to put it in a cupboard or secure it, that's not the kind of place that gets visited often anyway.

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simonbp

@65dBnoise Robocoprolite

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