LadyStanley
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I want to hear what's happening. And see the helicopter work.
... 5. The Ingenuity team will count success one step at a time.
Given the firsts Ingenuity is trying to accomplish, the team has a long list of milestones they'll need to pass before the helicopter can take off and land in the spring of 2021. The team will celebrate each time they meet one. The milestones include:
And then Ingenuity will make its first flight attempt. If the helicopter succeeds in that first flight, the Ingenuity team will attempt up to four other test flights within a 30-Martian-day (31-Earth-day) window. ...
- Surviving the launch from Cape Canaveral, the cruise to Mars, and landing on the Red Planet
- Safely deploying to the surface from Perseverance's belly
- Autonomously keeping warm through the intensely cold Martian nights
- Autonomously charging itself with its solar panel
All this has been pretty damn cool. Makes me wish we could actually travel to Mars and also makes me want to re-read the Mars trilogy from Kim Stanley Robinson which I haven't read in years.
Amazing how satisfying an otherwise annoying sound can be.Now you can hear NASA's Ingenuity helicopter flying over Mars | Engadget
You can hear drone in flight (if you listen carefully). Sound/audio is new.
well...Holy ****... I knew Mars was cold, but -130? That poses just a bit of a challenge for habitation...
well...
The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983 by ground measurements.
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Captures Video of Record Flight
May 27, 2022
Imagery has come down from Mars capturing a recent flight in which the rotorcraft flew farther and faster than ever before.
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s black-and-white navigation camera has provided dramatic video of its record-breaking 25th flight, which took place on April 8. Covering a distance of 2,310 feet (704 meters) at a speed of 12 mph (5.5 meters per second), it was the Red Planet rotorcraft’s longest and fastest flight to date. (Ingenuity is currently preparing for its 29th flight.) ...
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