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After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends
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| 1/25/2024
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Posted on 01/25/2024 1:48:26 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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An amazing little device. NASA still does cool stuff.
To: Vermont Lt
To: Vermont Lt
So it will be coming home now?
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posted on
01/25/2024 1:49:28 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
To: Jonty30
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posted on
01/25/2024 1:50:11 PM PST
by
HighSierra5
(The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
To: Jonty30
Nothing comes home from Mars.
I think the physics prevents it.
To: Jonty30
It broke its rotor. It will be in a museum on earth 100 years from now when Musk brings it back.
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posted on
01/25/2024 1:58:01 PM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
To: Vermont Lt
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posted on
01/25/2024 2:07:29 PM PST
by
NWFree
(Sigma male 🤪)
To: Vermont Lt
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...
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posted on
01/25/2024 2:07:51 PM PST
by
moovova
("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: Vermont Lt
Poor thing. Mission accomplished many time over.
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posted on
01/25/2024 2:10:07 PM PST
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: Jonty30
Alert Sheila Jackson-Lee!
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posted on
01/25/2024 2:14:06 PM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
To: Vermont Lt
Matt Damon could have MacIvered it for transport.
To: Vermont Lt
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.
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posted on
01/25/2024 2:44:16 PM PST
by
Ezekiel
(🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
To: Vermont Lt
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.
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posted on
01/25/2024 2:49:37 PM PST
by
cyclotic
(Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
To: Ezekiel
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.”
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posted on
01/25/2024 2:50:42 PM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
To: Jonty30
:)
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).
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posted on
01/25/2024 2:54:51 PM PST
by
Red6
To: Vermont Lt
This has been a great running narrative, but because I've been posting each flight's stats, I noticed this about the current
Flight Log:
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.
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posted on
01/25/2024 3:09:41 PM PST
by
Ezekiel
(🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
To: Vermont Lt
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.
To: Vermont Lt
Not bad.
That's like 21 dog years.
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posted on
01/25/2024 3:23:18 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Vermont Lt
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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posted on
01/25/2024 3:48:36 PM PST
by
null and void
(I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
To: Empire_of_Liberty
“ physics prevents it.”
Physics just illustrates how much energy it would take to return that mighty little helicopter back to Earth, the only thing preventing its return is a lack of will on our part.
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posted on
01/25/2024 3:49:49 PM PST
by
The Louiswu
(Pray for Peace in the world.)
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