As work spaces g,o this one does not look very interesting, as there is no exposed bedrock.
Waiting for the drive details
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Still waiting for the official drive data, but it's in the order of 5 meters
On these quiet sols, with minimal driving, have you ever suspected that the rover drivers secretly want to execute moves like this? The topography is maybe not a perfect match, of course, but with gravity reduced by 62%, I'm sure Percy could catch some air.
With Ingenuity grounded, there'd be no one to witness these moves, of course, but I'm absolutely certain the science team would eventually catch on when they see that the rover deck has inexplicably been shaken free of that loose sand cover one fine morning...
I'm going to have to find and re-watch that movie :) And I'm sure you're right that the drivers dream about such a move.
Not sure if you've ever seen any of Seán Doran's animations from Curiosity Rover. He mapped the terrain the rover was in using 3D meshes assembled from the NavCams. If there was a lot of MastCam images, he would overlay those on the 3D model. He would then place a 3D model of the rover onto the model and replicate the path of the rover from the traverse map co-ordinates. I can't find one particular video as he removed a lot of his work from YouTube, and made his stuff on Flickr 'Private' as it was getting ripped off and re-posted by a number of other folk as their own animations. If you followed Curiosity, you'll recall the rover drove up on top of Mont Murcou, it took a selfie at the base and a 360 MastCam Pan from the top before driving away. Sean had it all mapped and animated. IIRC Mont Mercou was about 7 meters tall with a cliff face on one side. My memory is failing a little, and I cant recall if it was Sean or someone else, who animated the rover doing an impersonation of Steve McQueen's Bullit jumping off that cliff, but it was a classic