#flight53 — Public Fediverse posts
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What happened with #Ingenuity's anomalous #Flight53 ?
"[...] the helicopter executed the first half of its autonomous journey, flying north at an altitude of 16 feet (5 meters) for 466 feet (142 meters). Then a flight-contingency program was triggered, and Ingenuity automatically landed." #LAND_NOW
Read the rest here: https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9457/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-flies-again-after-unscheduled-landing/
Note: Teddy Tzanetos is now team lead *emeritus* for Ingenuity, apparently working on #MSR's #SRH
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@mars_stu on Xitter, spotted #Ingenuity at its new landing 53, about 3 hours ago. Meaning, it's possible that the #MarsHelicopter had already flown #Flight53 when #Perseverance arrived at its RMC 42.1460 location on Sol 868, and that's why it didn't show up in the NAVCAM images.
h/t @stim3on
A map follows.
Animated, processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 63mm
Sol: 868, RMC: 42.1460, LMST: 14:16:32
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00868/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0868_0744003258_956EBY_N0421460ZCAM08873_0630LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise -
#Ingenuity is in contact with #Perseverance. We know that because it just sent in some images from #flight46 and #Flight49.
What we don't know yet is whether #Flight53 has taken place as planned, last Saturday. Rising temperature and dropping pressure, both at night and during daylight, have decreased atmospheric density to below 0.0145kg/m3, the limit for low rpm rotor speed. Maybe this development caused a delay?
Hopefully we'll know soon.
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Two fresh #Ingenuity images were just downlinked. The date is yestersol and the time is in the morning, which both seem to indicate that the #MarsHelicopter is in good health, willing and able for its next #Flight53.
So, we're standing by for the announcement of the new flight 🙂
Quickly processed, undistorted, cropped HELI_RTE
Sol: 852, RMC: 52.001, LMST: 10:06:02
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00852/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_0852_0742567439_746ECM_N0520001HELI00000_000085J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise