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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
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Looks to my old eyes like the surface layer broke up and was scattered around. As you say there appears to be some movement of the turret / robotic arm, so I believe you're spot on in predicting that the abrading process was likely ended early. We'll have to await for those post abrasion images. Let's hope it's not like the previous patch where we had to wait days for the drill to be moved.
BTW, Do you have a list of patches that you don't yet have a name for (before sol 1380)?
Aside from those already listed in the other post, there's only one other patch for which I don't have a given name (#34, Sol 1395), so that's a total of four.
The drilling/abrasion tools on Curiosity and the MER twins have given us a good idea of the rock strength encountered by those rovers, but I haven't seen much research on the subject for Percy as yet. It's a little frustrating - that's a stat I'd like to include when writing up the different patches, it really would help tell a story. I know the mission has enough "drill parameter" data to make an interesting tale...
I'm sure they have a ton of drill data, hopefully they'll share something soon :)
As for your missing patch names looks like you have to wait until Early August for the next update