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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
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Post-drive notes for this sol:
The publicly available data says that the drive took 4.5 hours, but the rover stopped after 13:00 hours for at least 10 minutes to capture some images, so I think we can safely discount the reported drive duration.
I should also note that the rover made three very short drives on sols 1758, 1760 and 1761, amounting to less than 4 m total. I'm not quite sure what the intent was - based on the images we have in hand, it doesn't appear that the science team was trying to approach any particular target - so it may be that Percy experienced some drive errors. Nonetheless, we are well on the way to the big next science target, Lac de Charmes!