Looking back at its wheel tracks after a long drive ~ENE Tiled post-drive NavCam image Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

    • paulhammond5155@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      why does it look like a bird is flying in the very far background?

      It’s a small group of dead pixels on the left side NavCam camera (L-NavCam)

      We only usually see those when that section of the upper left tile of a 4 tile NavCam captures the sky

      Here are a pair of raw upper left NavCam tiles from Sols 1833 and 1835 that I have annotated, note the dead pixels in the same location in the sky.

      If you go back through the image server you’ll find the same dead pixels on L-NavCam images, I’ve include an example from December 13, 2023 (Sol 1000)