After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/
Syndicated from the fediverse. Read and engage on the original instance.
View original on lemmy.worldView original on lemmy.world
21 replies
Best helicopter ever. What a phenomenal feat of engineering, management, and scientific vision! That it flew at all was outright wonderful. That it became a new tool to continue to help a larger mission was downright amazing.
Great work NASA, engineers, scientists, and leaders. You've exceeded expectations once again.
Good bye little one!
-Im still here! I just hurt my wing
Rest in peace, you were the best
-i'm not dead, just give me a lift!
We'll always remember you for your accomplishments
-Yay! Let's go home and tell everyone. My battery is getting low. Hello? Hello?
"Bring out your dead!"
"Got one here."
"I'm not dead!"
"You will be in a minute."
"Look, I'm fine. I'm happyyyyy!"
Something like that anyway.
As always, relevant XKCD.
"Slightly worse" xckd
Well done little copter, you did us proud.
you did good little one
RIP to a real one
Why rip? Did it crash?
Rtfa. It's literally the second sentence.
What article? I'm only getting an image
Sorry. I fixed it. For some reason when I added the image it removed the link I had.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/
I think Lemmy posts can be a link XOR an image, not both. You can always put links it the body text though, as I see you have done now.
Does this post link to an article? Just showing as an image in Liftoff.
Odd. I'm on kbin so I can't say what it looks like elsewhere but it's a direct link for me.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/
I'm seeing that now. Definitely wasn't there before though. That's pretty typical for Lemmy.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/
Its rotors were damaged on its last landing and it is now incapable of flight though it is still in communication with NASA.
RIP
Nah he's still standing guard 🦾
F
I wonder if they'll try to get Perseverance close enough to get some photos to analyze what happened. I was looking at the Map on the mission page and it looks like it's in an area of sand dunes so maybe a little risky to try and go through that.
Side note: If you google "mars ingenuity" you can click on the little guy and see him flying around mars.