Get ready for more adventures on Mars. Although Perseverance appears similar to Curiosity, the previous rover, it is a new mission throughout. The really big difference is that Perseverance is tasked with identifying and caching samples for potential return to Earth beginning this decade. For that reason, the careful documentation of every aspect of the geology and the context of the sampling along the traverse will be a vital component of the mission.

Below are some preliminary concepts for the presentation of the Endeavour crater geologic traverse maps. Conceptually, the products are simple polygons of successive areas alow the entire traverse. The final data set would consist of 90 to 100 subframes and the accompanying reference map.

Cape York rim segment

Sol 5135 - Opportunity Continues Weathering the Global Dust Event of 2018 at Perseverance Valley

Opportunity is hunkered down in the floor of Perseverance Valley here on the inner wall of Endeavour crater waiting out the global dust storm of 2018.

Sol 5114 - A Major Dust Storm on Mars

Opportunity was continuing to gather data from outcrops in Perseverance Valley up until the end of May and the first week of June. But then a dust storm developed to the northwest and unexpectedly expanded into Merdiani Planum where Opportunity is exploring.

During the last week of Febraury, 2018, on Sol 4999 since landing on Mars (14 tears ago), Opportunity woke up at took a picture of the sunrise over the southeast rim of Endeavour crater. Opportunity then proceeded with its science activities here on the inner wall of Endeavour crater.