Oy. Less than 5 vertical m cleared after a whole week of short slippy drives. I’m not sure what I was expecting to find on this rim, but this terrain wasn’t it.
EDITED TO ADD: I meant - only 5 m on this drive, after a whole week of slippy drives, with less than 10 vertical m cleared on any one drive. And this is hardly the softest-looking crater rim we’ve seen on Mars…
Don’t be all proud of yourself. The rover drivers will be given control of the death ray (sorry, the “breakdown laser spectrometer”) when they summit the rim as a reward for their hard work. They’ll be carving out the words, “We Persevered, ******s” into the finest basement rock any rover has ever tasted.
Beat that.