After its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this color image showing the shadow of one of its rotor blades, which was damaged during touchdown.
That'll buff right out...
Posted on 01/25/2024 1:48:26 PM PST by Vermont Lt
NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned. While the helicopter remains upright and in communication with ground controllers, imagery of its Jan. 18 flight sent to Earth this week indicates one or more of its rotor blades sustained damage during landing and it is no longer capable of flight.
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Excellent.
So it will be coming home now?
Yeah right. Maybe UPS.
Nothing comes home from Mars.
I think the physics prevents it.
It broke its rotor. It will be in a museum on earth 100 years from now when Musk brings it back.
It’s dead again Jim
Can’t they put the poor thing out of its misery? It’s just sitting there waiting for the order to take off. Straining...straining...
Poor thing. Mission accomplished many time over.
Alert Sheila Jackson-Lee!
Matt Damon could have MacIvered it for transport.
Thanks for posting this.
They put this update out a little while after they updated the Flight log, and after I had posted the thread about it.
My son is an engineer at NASA. The first mission he was on, a solar observatory launched the week he was born and was supposed to end before he turned four. It’s still operational.
I checked to see if you caught it. I am glad I stumbled across it. I have enjoyed all of the posts over the months. Talk about a “little engine that could.”
:)
Pretty cool stuff.
This thing flew in .088 PSI of an atmosphere!
Our atmosphere is ~14.7 PSI.
Without knowing that it was accomplished with a helicopter, I would have called BS had anyone tried to tell me this was or can be done practically (it did 72 flights and was feeding images back).
It now says that Flight 71 went nowhere. Yet the waypoints log and the info from the Flight Log [that I posted at the time] show otherwise.
Hmmm. Maybe somebody got over zealous in typing zeros.
think of all the engineering successes with this device.
“a flying machine on another planet.packaging, launchimg, landing, and it survived, to fly all this tome.
what was discovered, and theories realized, and airframes proven.
That's like 21 dog years.
After its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this color image showing the shadow of one of its rotor blades, which was damaged during touchdown.
That'll buff right out...
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