#flight71 — Public Fediverse posts
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The end of #Ingenuity's mission on Mars.
As I have been posting lately, images and events around #Flight71 and #Flight72 indicated that something had gone wrong with the #MarsHelicopter (see next post for references)
#NASA's new status update confirms that #Flight72 was the last one for the mighty little helicopter.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends
Undistorted image from the status update
Sol 1036, RMC 72.0001
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as if something dragged or hit the ground during #Flight71 (https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111750833533763835)
The fact that there is just one image from #Flight71 attests to the fact that communication with the rover was already bad before the flight, and probably remained bad after popup #Flight72 which landed at about the same location.
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#MarsHelicopter #Ingenuity #Mars2020 #NASA #Solarocks #Space
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Images from #Ingenuity's #Flight70 have started pouring in. This one shows the area where the #MarsHelicopter did an emergency landing during #Flight71, and a posible location for that, guessed from the laconic announcement of JPL on X.
Map follows.
Processed HELI_RTE image captured from RMC 70.0001/4
Sol 1009, LMST: 10:15:09Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01009/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_1009_0756505605_202ECM_N0700001HELI00004_000085J01.png
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#Ingenuity's 71st landing appears to be the worst so far. Both this and the previous image from #Flight71's emergency landing show deep fresh grooves in the regolith beneath the copter, some barely visible at the top that I didn't notice earlier, most probably dug by some part of the heli hitting or dragging on the ground.
Processed, undistorted HELI_NAV
RMC 71.0001/84
Sol 1027, LMST: 10:12:49Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01027/ids/edr/browse/heli/HNM_1027_0758103402_965ECM_N0710001HELI00084_0000LUJ01.png
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This first image from #Flight71 let's us know that #Ingenuity ended up landed on its feet, but if one looks closer, there is a groove on the regolith that looks very fresh. It seems as if something hit the ground in a way never seen before.
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Processed, undistorted HELI_NAV
Image captured from RMC 71.0001/26
Sol 1027, LMST: 10:11:02Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01027/ids/edr/browse/heli/HNM_1027_0758103292_959ECM_N0710001HELI00026_0000LUJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise