After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends

NASA/JPL ^ | 1/25/2024 | JPL

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I think it is more than a lack of will.

Jules Verne, it turns out, was right. It would be best to launch into space from a gun. That would splatter any astronauts, so we get as close to that as we can, with something like 12 G’s and a comfortable couch.

A return from Mars would be way worse than a return from Earth’s moon. The return from the Moon left a spaceship looking like burnt pizza.

I don’t think a return from Mars can be done.

[21twelve]

It would be nice to somehow package all of the stuff that NASA gets so right and run the entire government like that.

[NWFree]

Thank God we don’t have to hear about it anymore like the 62nd flight was any more eventful than the first

[DoodleBob]

Did Boeing make the blade?

[Ezekiel]

Long live Ingenuity. Worth the follow-up, or rather the continuum!! 🎄

"NASA announced the end of mission for Ingenuity on Jan. 25, 2024."

After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends

And now for the first fruits from Ingenuity (remember her Easter birth story?):

Ginny's first Rosh Hashanah was in 5782 (2021).

5783 (2022), 5784 (2023)...

Marking the end of the mission, today was:

New Year for Trees

Today is Tu BiShevat ("the 15th of Shevat") which marks the beginning of a "New Year for Trees." This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle.

https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tdate=1/25/2024

 

The prohibition on orlah fruit (lit. "uncircumcised" fruit) is a command found in the Bible not to eat fruit produced by a tree during the first three years after planting.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlah

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However, even after the third Rosh Hashanah marks the completion of three years, the fruit which blossoms in the fourth year before Tu'bishvat is treated as orlah as well. This is because this fruit was nourished from sap that the tree produced before Rosh Hashana. If fruit blossomed after Tu'bishvat of the fourth year, we assume that the fruit was nourished from the current year's sap, and the fruit is not orlah. The Shach (YD 294:10) quotes the Rosh who notes that in our climate, trees don't ordinarily blossom before Tu'bishvat, so one may assume that all fruit that is found on the tree in the fourth year is not orlah.

How does Tu'bishvat impact the counting of years of orlah (prohibition of eating fruit from a tree during its first three years)?

Huh? What tree is Ingenuity? The Ingenuity Tree. 🎄 Of Kufu:

工夫
kufū,

lit. ingenuity, from the land named for being the source of the Sun. That great pyramid has been generating ingenuity for all the whats hows and whys spun up since time immemorial even as no one caught on to the Power of the Firs.

(parts breakdown)

Kufu, or of K-Ops, like I posted two days ago (at 'No More Than 2 or 3 Cups Each Per Year'), but here I included the 'capstone':

🍩 there's no guesswork, rotors = branches:

O Tannenbaum

STATUS UPDATES | December 23, 2022
Happy Holidays from Jezero Crater
Written by Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity Team Lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter family wishes you and yours the happiest of holiday seasons.

O Ingenuity

O Ingenuity, O Mars Heli
How lovely are thy rotors
O Ingenuity, O Mars Heli
How lovely are thy rotors

Your coat, so silvery in Martian light
Keep you warm, in Winter Time
O Ingenuity, O Mars Heli
How lovely are thy rotors

Their design lifts faithfully
Our trust in them unchangedly
O Ingenuity, O Mars Heli
How lovely are thy rotors

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/429/happy-holidays-from-jezero-crater/

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Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground

[Red Badger]

It made it shofar so good...........................

[cyclotic]

You’re right. They also do a poor job of promoting the benefits we get from the space program.

[21twelve]

The rock group RUSH did a song about a launch of the Columbia space shuttle back in the day:

“This magic day when super-science
Mingles with the bright stuff of dreams”

While we do get a lot of concrete benefits from space exploration, I think that there is a huge benefit as well to being able to dream big things and having the opportunity to do them.

And while your son is fortunate to work with NASA, just think of all the other people that started off “wanting to be an astronaut”, got interested in science, and our now in the tech industry, engineers, medicine, etc.

[Vermont Lt]

Well, there is life outside politics….

[higgmeister]

AS dad used to say can't never did anything.   Or like The Dude said, “yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.”

[JPG]

Alert Sheila Jackson-Lee!

Did it land near the flag?

[umbagi]

Note that this, like most “NASA” successes, comes from JPL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NASA, with its own management and staff. It was part of CalTech, until the 50s. Artemis, SLS, and other non-jpl projects tend to be poorly managed long-delayed over-budget bureaucratic monstrosities.

[cyclotic]

Funny thing is, he never wanted to be an astronaut. When he was five he told my wife he wanted to work at NASA and build rockets.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

That is some deep science!

Thanks!

[Paul R.]

Well, actually NASA did keep pushing the envelope, so to speak, further and further. IIRC that last flight was the highest, or something like that...

[Political Junkie Too]

Was Howard Wolowitz showing off for the ladies again?

-PJ

[higgmeister]

Well, if you want science. There is no heat in the vacuum of space. Any charring of a spacecraft happened upon reentry.   Every reentry has the same amount of burning and charring no matter where the spacecraft traveled to before it returned.

A return from Mars takes longer to return that's all.

The surface gravity on Mars is only about 38% of the surface gravity on Earth, so if you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh only 38 pounds on Mars, so the boost from Mars is not anything near what we see on a liftoff from the Earth.

[SisterK]

the perils of being an angel flying to close to the ground...
I’ll take that cup of Donut Shop coffee, please.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

The Apollo Moon missions returned as little as possible to the Earth, to make the mission even feasible. That meant no fuel by the time you reach Earth’s atmosphere and a meteoric reentry starting at around 25,000 miles per hour, out in space. This was from a Lunar orbit with enough velocity that a portion of a LEM could reach it and sufficient fuel could be carried in the CSM for a return to Earth.

Mars would be very different. The velocity of anything that could reach the Earth from Mars’ higher orbit would be vastly higher. You don’t just take a cruise through space, you fall towards the Sun. It’s a long ways to fall and I haven’t heard a scientist say how fast you’d be going. I expect there’s not much grant money in saying it can’t be done, but I expect that aerobraking is out and that means way too much fuel dragged back from Mars.

I have always loved science, and I hate to see it abused just to give people paychecks. I think that this latest “mission” selected a rock for later return. What kind of sad joke is that? As if the hypothetical later mission couldn’t select its own rock.

Fake scientists, like Carl Sagan, have gotten fat spinning lies to keep the grant money flowing. First it was Perceval Lowell’s canals (at least it was his own money) and people were told of Barsoom and princesses. Then, it was just, maybe , “life” on Mars. Now, it’s fossil microbes. People should be able to figure out better when they’re being lied to.

I think that the trip to Mars is one-way. I don’t have a problem with that, but I expect that there’s not a lot of grant money for it.

[higgmeister]

I think that the trip to Mars is one-way. I don’t have a problem with that, but I expect that there’s not a lot of grant money for it.

And again, I remind you that like The Dude said, “yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.”