Andrew is a freelance space journalist with a focus on reporting on China's rapidly growing space sector. He began writing for Space.com in 2019 and writes for SpaceNews, IEEE Spectrum, National Geographic, Sky & Telescope, New Scientist and others.
This image of NASA’s Perseverance rover gathering data on the “Walhalla Glades” abrasion was taken in the “Bright Angel” region of Jezero Crater by one of the rover’s front hazard avoidance cameras on June 14. The WATSON camera on the SHERLOC instrument is closest to the Martian surface.A key Perseverance rover instrument has been revived to continue its search for evidence of microbial life on Mars.
The cover for the Autofocus and Context Imager on the Perseverance Mars rover’s SHERLOC instrument, photographed by the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument on May 11.By March, the team had managed to open the cover for SHERLOC's Autofocus and Context Imager camera, clearing its field of view. From there, the team found a way to use Perseverance's robotic arm to achieve focus on targets. By June 17, they had confirmed SHERLOC's operational status.
"The rover’s robotic arm is amazing. It can be commanded in small, quarter-millimeter steps to help us evaluate SHERLOC’s new focus position, and it can place SHERLOC with high accuracy on a target," said Kyle Uckert, SHERLOC deputy principal investigator at JPL, in a, we figured out the best distance for the robotic arm to place SHERLOC is about 40 millimeters," or 1.58 inches."At that distance, the data we collect should be as good as ever.
The rover is in the later stages of its fourth science campaign, according to JPL. It is currently looking for evidence of carbonate and olivine deposits in an area along Jezero's inside rim.to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at:
Andrew is a freelance space journalist with a focus on reporting on China's rapidly growing space sector. He began writing for Space.com in 2019 and writes for SpaceNews, IEEE Spectrum, National Geographic, Sky & Telescope, New Scientist and others. Andrew first caught the space bug when, as a youngster, he saw Voyager images of other worlds in our solar system for the first time. Away from space, Andrew enjoys trail running in the forests of Finland.
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