Having another go at climbing higher up the steep slopes of the outer rim wall of Jezero crater. This drive took the rover ESE, and it finished the drive with its nose raised by a little over 20 degrees. It can safely climb much steeper slopes, but not slopes that have an abundance of loose material like the rover has encountered on this slope.

The image is a processed post-drive rear facing HazCam looking down slope. Look closely and you can see that the wheels (especially the one on the left side of the image) appears to have been slipping and bunching up rubble down slope. I’m assuming that the drive was likely halted by a lack of forward progress.

image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech