Mars continue to provide us with an ever increasing collection of stunning rocks. Here’s a mosaic assembled from 11 overlapping MastCam-Z images (full zoom) featuring a small boulder that’s as big as a large boulder ;)
The boulder is sitting close to the rover. The base images were acquired on sol 1644 (October 4, 2025)
The mosaic was assembled by Kevin M Gill. His full resolution mosaic can be viewed on Flickr page, but has had to be reduced a little to meet the upload requirements of Lemmy. Link to full size: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/54834239678/sizes/o/
Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill
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Why is it puzzling?
It looks like it broke offa something.
That boulder has seen some shit.
Spoken like a true geologist.
The quality of the pic is amazing. How large is this rock IRL?
It’s a small boulder, comparable in length to the diameter of Percy’s wheels, I’d estimate - so the long dimension is roughly 50 cm. Here’s one of the HazCam shots that Paul Hammond assembled, from sol 1642:
Please keep the questions coming, everyone - they’re helping me put together my
link dumpreference list! (I’m not promising a FAQ any time soon, but that’s the way this really should go, ultimately…)Thanks! No banana for scale? 🤔
Whoa
Another one, a little further away. Imaged on sol 1645 (Oct. 5, 2025)
Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
