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Context map for #Flight17 of the #MarsHelicopter #Ingenuity seen in the animation above.

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #NASA #Space

Animation of HELI_NAV images captured during flight 17 of #Ingenuity (Dec 5, 2021).

Processed, undistorted and stabilized, they give a dramatic impression of the regolith megaripple environment of an area called Seitah, where the #MarsHelicopter spent a year flying and scouting for the rover #Perseverance.

Of course the heli's shadow is an eye catcher, but if you look at the rest of the frame you may see some megaripples take the shape of strange creatures 😨

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #NASA #Space

@andrealuck

Haha, yeah sure, and Musk's Optimuses will occupy Mars by the millions any day now. At least with KSR we knew it was SciFi. #Ingenuity, which the BBC article seems to dismiss as demonstration technology having limited capabilities, was a complete engineering solution, capable of taking off and landing safely on its own more than 70 times. Try to get this albatross-glider to take off just once from the ground on its own…

The Art of La Chicanada

https://xinkblotz.com/2026/07/15/the-art-of-la-chicanada/

At the museum of human ingenuity. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#humanity #humans #intelligence #ingenuity

NASA: Rotor blades for next Mars helicopter ready for supersonic speed

Ingenuity has proven that helicopters can fly on Mars. However, it couldn't lift much. This is set to change with its successors.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/NASA-Rotor-blades-for-next-Mars-helicopter-ready-for-supersonic-speed-11292992.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Forschung #Ingenuity #Mars #NASA #Raumfahrt #Wissenschaft #news

NASA: Rotorblätter für nächste Mars-Helikopter fit für Überschallgeschwindigkeit

Ingenuity hat unter Beweis gestellt, dass Helikopter auf dem Mars fliegen können. Viel heben konnte er aber nicht. Das soll bei seinen Nachfolgern anders sein.

https://www.heise.de/news/NASA-Rotorblaetter-fuer-naechste-Mars-Helikopter-fit-fuer-Ueberschallgeschwindigkeit-11292775.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Forschung #Ingenuity #Mars #NASA #Raumfahrt #Wissenschaft #news

A quotation from Douglas Adams

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 12 (1992)

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/1464/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #mostlyharmless #design #failsafe #fool #foolproofing #genius #ingenuity

Martian Memories

Five years ago on this day, April 19, 2021, first flight of Ingenuity, the little Mars Helicopter, at Van Zyl Overlook in Jezero Crater. The historic moment is captured by Perseverance with her Mastcam Zoom camera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMnOo2zcjXA

#Mars #Ingenuity #Perseverance #space #helicopter #history #science #historyOfScience #Jezero #VanZylOverlook #OTD

I just figured out how to disable #SearchAssist in @duckduckgo and it feels meaningful.

I am trying to educate myself about the relationships between #TeleologicalEvolution, #eschatology, and #soteriology and these are so entwined and complex and deeply historical that, in this case, I don't want #AI getting in the way of my own capacity to understand this stuff.

#research #philosophy #human #ingenuity

Guten Morgen ☕ niemand hätte geglaubt, dass die Entdeckung des #Marsgesicht in der letzten Dekade des 20. Jahrhunderts nur ein versteckter Hinweis war!

Und erst als die #Nasa den kleinen Helikopter #Ingenuity auf dem #Mars geschickt hatte allen klar, wer das Gesicht wirklich ist und dazu heute auch noch Geburtstag hat - es ist der hier gern gelesene und liebe @Linkshaender :-)
Herzlichen Glückwunsch mein Lieber <3
Bleib gesund und lass Dich feiern! Und entschuldige dass ichs wieder poste ;-)

Space Reactor‑1 Freedom, the first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft, launching to Mars before the end of 2028 👀

Upon reaching Mars, it will deploy the Skyfall payload of Ingenuity‑class helicopters to continue exploring the Red Planet 👀

Check out today's announcements by NASA ⤵️

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-unveils-initiatives-to-achieve-americas-national-space-policy/

#Mars #SR1Freedom #Ingenuity #space #science #news #SpaceReactor1Freedom #SpaceReactor #SpaceReactor1 #NASA #nuclear #nuclearpower

[ Fiksaĵo Ŝmiksaĵo ]

Ĉiam ekzistas solvo.
Uzu tion, kion vi havas.

~eltrovemo~

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#miksang #dailypic #aphotoaday
#Esperanto #photography #photo
#winter #alps #alpine #snow #ski #skibum #macgyver #mcgyver #helmetcam #helmetcamera #camera
#hodgepodge #ingenuity

🤔 In a breathtaking display of #human #ingenuity, behold a #museum dedicated to... #plugs and sockets! 🔌 Because, of course, the world was clamoring for a #digital #shrine to #electrifyingly #mundane objects. 🎉 Welcome to the electrifyingly dull rabbit hole that nobody asked for!
https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/index.html #sockets #HackerNews #ngated

A new technology from #NASA #JPL enables #Perseverance to figure out its whereabouts without calling humans for help.

Dubbed Mars Global Localization, it features an algorithm that compares panoramic images from the rover’s navigation cameras with onboard orbital terrain maps, and runs on the CPU originally used by Perseverance to communicate with #Ingenuity. Calc's a fix in 2min with 25cm accuracy.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-now-autonomously-pinpoints-its-location-on-mars

PDF:
https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/media/documents/2024_Global_Localization_ICRA.pdf

#Mars2020 #solarocks #space #technology

From the Wright brothers on Earth to NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, pioneering flight continues to shape our future 🚀

What must we change on Earth to keep our journey into space alive—and create a better future for generations to come?

🔗 https://authormulhall.com/first-mars-flight-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-legacy/

#NASA #Mars #Ingenuity #SpaceExploration #Science #Aviation #FutureOfFlight #STEM

Just so that we don't forget little #MarsHelicopter #Ingenuity that's now retiring up at Valinor Hills, in the Neretva Vallis ancient riverbed, in NW Jezero crater.

180 processed and colorized HELI_NAV images, played at 5fps
RMC: 28.0001, Sol: 423
LMST: 11:52:43
UTC: 2022-04-29T07:42:09

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Flight28 #NASA #Solarocks #Space

🎭🤖 BREAKING NEWS: #AI is not the fruit of #human ingenuity! Nope, it just strolled in #uninvited, like a stray cat that your tech-savvy uncle insists on calling "emergent technology." 😹 Because, who needs to credit human achievement when you can just say it "arrived" and call it a day? 🙄
https://andrewarrow.dev/2025/12/ai-was-not-invented-it-arrived/ #Emergence #Tech #Critique #Ingenuity #Tech #HackerNews #ngated

Show Yourselves Martians! – Pavel Klushantsev

ANNOTATION

This book provides an overview of the mysteries and explorations of Mars. The Red Planet has fascinated humanity since antiquity. The invention of the telescope only deepened its enigmas, particularly with the discovery of the so-called ‘canals.’ This led to the idea of Martians living on the planet in science fiction. But is there really life on Mars? Do Martians exist? What are the canals? To answer questions like these space probes from the USSR and USA started the exploration of Mars in the 1960s. Going to Mars is not straightforward and reaching Mars is an engineering and technological feat. Ever since then we have continued our explorations of the Red Planet. We now have sophisticated rovers on the surface of Mars and orbiters in orbit around Mars. In the last few decades our knowledge of Mars has improved in leaps and bounds with new discoveries shedding more and more light on the mysterious planets past and future. This volume presents an outline of these explorations, a journey that continues to advance the bounds of human knowledge with hopes that one day humans will inhabit Mars.

Drawings by V. Korolkov
Translated from the Spanish and Typset in Scribus by Damitr Mazanav

Released on the web by The Mir Titles Project in 2025

This work is an Open Educational Resource (OER)

Creative Commons BY Share Alike 4.0 License

You can get the book here and here

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Translators Note

One of the first books that I remember reading was All About the Telescope by Pavel Klushantsev translated to Marathi. The book got me fascinated about science in general and astronomy in particular.

So, when I saw this book by Klushantsev on Mars only available in Spanish, I could not resist from translating it. Though I started the work on this some years back, it was never completed for various reasons. One of them being the complex nature of typsetting in the book. So for this book I have used Scribus for typsetting and the results have been pleasing.

Since the book was written, our knowledge about Mars has increased by leaps and bounds. I have added an additional chapter in the book that summarises the various spacecraft since the 1990s that have taken our knowledge of Mars to the next level. The Martian surface has been revelead unprecendented detail with numerous rovers and orbiters around it. The attribution of images in the last section is provided with the images.

We now have active rovers on the surface of Mars and orbiters around it sending us vital information about the Red Planet. All this with hopes that humans would one day land there. It is to those future astronauts this translation and additional sections are dedicated.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

THAT LITTLE STAR IS MARS! 1
THE MYSTERIES OF MARS 14
WHERE CAN YOU LIVE 22
UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA OF MARS 32
WE MUST SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF “CANALS” 41
DO MARTIANS EXIST? 46
TRACES OF MARTIANS 56
ARE THE MARTIANS OUR ENEMIES 67
ARE MARTIANS OUR FRIENDS? 77
WE MUST FLY TO MARS 87
IS IT DIFFICULT TO REACH MARS 97
WHAT DID THE SPACE PROBES SEE FROM THEIR ORBIT 117
WATER! 129
THE SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS 136
IN THE FUTURE 152
FROM UNCERTAINTY TO DISCOVERY: MARS SINCE THE 1990s – Damitr Mazanav 163

#Ccbysa #Oer #ingenuity #ISRO #mangalyaan #marsExploration #marsExplorer #marsExpress #marsMission #marsProbes #martianProbes #mirTitlesProject #NASA #perseverance #sovietLiterature #spaceExploration #spaceTravel #ussr #viking

One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly – NPR

Music

One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly

The story of Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, is one of American ingenuity, cultural integrity and a century of free concerts.

October 25, 20258:18 AM ET, Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday

Tom Huizenga 6-Minute Listen Transcript

The year is 1925. The Great Gatsby is published, the jazz age is swinging, and on October 28th, a new concert hall opens at an unlikely spot — the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C. If only its cream-colored walls could talk. For 100 years, performers of all stripes have graced the Library stage, from classical music luminaries like Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky to Stevie Wonder, Audra McDonald and Max Roach. Today, it remains one of the capitol city’s most beautiful, best sounding and perhaps best kept secrets.

The idea for a concert hall at the Library of Congress did not stem from congress. It came from philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge — and one bespoke piece of bipartisan legislation. “She was indefatigable and intrepid,” says Anne McLean, senior producer for concerts at the Library, “a remarkable woman, six feet tall, a brilliant pianist.” McLean is sitting with me on the stage, overlooking the empty auditorium. To mark the centennial, celebratory concerts and commissions have been heard in the hall all year. But not now. The government shutdown has forced the hall to close its doors, and unless a deal is reached before Tuesday, it’ll be closed on the anniversary itself.

Coolidge was born into a wealthy Chicago family in 1864. She studied music, traveled abroad, married a Harvard-trained orthopedic surgeon and, in 1924, came to Washington to establish a foothold in the nation’s capitol. She approached Carl Engel, the Library’s music chief, about the possibility of adding a small concert hall to the Library’s voluptuous — and voluminous — Thomas Jefferson building, designed after the Paris opera house and completed in 1897. You can’t see the hall from the outside, as it’s tucked inside the building’s Northwest Courtyard.

Eager to get started, Coolidge wrote a check for $60,000 to the Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, on Nov. 12, 1924. And yet there was no legal mechanism in place for a civilian to make such a monetary gift to the U.S. government. Congress worked quickly, taking only a little over a month to pass a bill allowing such a contribution.

It took less than six months to build the hall itself — the intimate, 485-seat Coolidge Auditorium, with its warm precise acoustics. “There are a lot of secrets to it,” McLean says. “The back wall of the auditorium is slightly shaved to be concave and extremely responsive to string sound. Underneath the stage is hollow. But that hollowness is a factor, as is the cork floor, which was very unusual for its time.” McLean says the sound blossoms in the hall. Keen to spread the sound far and wide, Coolidge even had the building wired for the relatively new medium of radio. She added to her initial sum to establish a fund for the commissioning of new music. Engel dubbed her “The Fairy-God-Mother of Music.”

Coolidge was well-connected and fiercely advocated for music. In 1944, she took to the local Washington airwaves with another bold idea. “I could wish for music, the same governmental protection that is given to hygiene, education or public welfare,” she said over WTOP. “How wonderful, if we could have in the cabinet, a secretary of fine arts.”

Coolidge never got her wish, but what she had already created was arguably more important — a living, breathing concert hall that serves as a cultural beacon — preserving history and cultivating new music through commissions.

Perhaps the most famous commission became one of America’s most iconic pieces of music. Aaron Copland‘s ballet Appalachian Spring, written for dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, received its world premiere at Coolidge Auditorium on Oct. 30, 1944. “I think people knew what they were hearing,” McLean says. The ballet would win the Pulitzer prize for music the following year, along with the New York Music Critics Circle Award. It’s hard to imagine a full ballet produced on Coolidge’s modestly-sized stage.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly : NPR

#100Years #AaronCopland #CoolidgeAuditorium #Culture #FreeConcerts #Ingenuity #LibraryOfCongress #MarthaGraham #Music #NationalPublicRadio #NPR #TomHuizenga #WeekendEdition

A history of innovation:
#roman #ingenuity #technology #innovation #history
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https://www.openculture.com/?p=1124652

The #Ingenuity #Mars #Helicopter was a small, experimental aircraft that was carried to Mars on the Perseverance rover.

It successfully completed the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021, proving that aerial exploration is possible on Mars.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/trends/browser?topic=Ingenuity

#PhotoOfTheDay: #Perseverance Selfie with #Ingenuity

On the Mars rover's mission Sol 46 or Earth date April 6, 2021, Perseverance held out a robotic arm to take its first selfie on Mars.

The WATSON camera at the end of the arm was designed to take close-ups of Martian rocks and surface details though, and not a quick snap shot of friends and smiling faces.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250607.html

From the Wright brothers’ first flight to NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, human flight has always pushed the boundaries of what’s possible.

🚀✨ As we map the skies of Earth and beyond, one question remains: will we grow wise enough here to make the stars a brighter future for generations to come?

🌌 Read more: https://authormulhall.com/first-mars-flight-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-legacy/

#Space #NASA #Mars #Ingenuity #Aerospace #Aviation #History #Future #Science #Exploration

From the Wright Brothers on Earth to NASA’s Ingenuity on Mars 🚀—every flight reshapes our future in aerospace, science, and exploration.

If we don’t learn from our mistakes on 🌍, do we risk holding back our journey to the ✨stars?

🔗 https://authormulhall.com/first-mars-flight-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-legacy/

#NASA #Mars #Ingenuity #SpaceExploration #Science #Physics #Future