Summer solstice coming up in 7 ½ hours, in the northern hemisphere of Mars (i.e. when Lₛ → 90°, now at 89.81°).

Watch it live 😎 🙃 along with #Perseverance and #Ingenuity¹ (which is presently watching sand shift in the light summer breeze at the Valinor Hills beach), with Mars24, a Java program by #NASA, based on equations by Allison and McEwen:
https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/notes.html

Download:
https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/

¹ assuming the #MarsHelicopter is still functional

#Mars2020 #MSL #Solarocks #space

@ScienceScholar
Back when this was first proposed, it sounded like an almost insane stretch of technology. Imagine! Flying a rotorcraft on another world.
Mars Ingenuity: "Hold my beer..."
#space #nasa #dragonfly #ingenuity #mars #titan

In both these roles, over the past few years, I've been asked to serve on diverse bodies that offer guidance about how the #Executive & #Legislative branches can be stewards of #knowledge & create structure to enable #discovery, #innovation, & #ingenuity. In the instance of the National #Science Board, this ideal has dissolved so gradually, yet so completely, that I barely noticed its absence until confronted with its hollow simulacrum.

#NSF #LibraryOfCongress #Trump #idiocracy

It takes at least six 6️⃣ months to get to #Mars. #Robots 🤖 go first. They scout the terrain, analyze samples, build infrastructure, and pave the way for eventual human 👨‍🚀 arrival.
#Perseverance uses advanced AI to drive autonomously. #Ingenuity uses computer vision to stabilize flight.
#Satellites 🛰️, too, are becoming more #robotic. #InOrbitServicing, once a dream, is now a reality. Robotic spacecraft can refuel ⛽ satellites, repair 🔧 them, or extend their missions https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/how-robotics-is-revolutionizing-space-exploration

#SpaceX uses #Linux 🐧 on the primary flight computers of #Dragon, #Falcon9 and #Starship. A triple redundancy setup allows SpaceX to use fairly off-the-shelf 💵 x86 computing hardware. #NASA’s #Ingenuity is similar (#OTS parts + Linux) https://hackaday.com/2024/02/10/the-usage-of-embedded-linux-in-spacecraft

Safe & Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (#SPLICE) is a #NASA program to develop next-generation landing technologies for planetary exploration.

SPLICE technologies are being considered for use on Mars Sample Return (#MSR), the Europa Lander, Commercial Lunar Payload Services flights, and Gateway.

The image shows #Ingenuity's Hazard Avoidance system in action on Mars and a sample of SPLICE capabilities.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/nasa-advances-precision-landing-technology-with-field-test-at-kennedy/

#Solarocks #Space

“Impossible is for the unwilling.”
-John Keats

https://recruiterflow.com/nsc/jobs#menu

#AI #Ingenuity #Courage #Possibilities

“Impossible is for the unwilling.”
-John Keats

https://recruiterflow.com/nsc/jobs#menu

#AI #Ingenuity #Courage #Possibilities

Why Did The Mars Helicopter Disappear? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20vUNgRdB4o&ab_channel=Veritasium
#Veritasium #Science #NASA #Mars #Ingenuity #Helicopter #BrokenRotors

Did you know the #Mars helicopter #Ingenuity carries piece of Wright brothers' famous plane?

From the first flight on Earth to the first flight on Mars! :mars_photo:

🛰️🌌✍🏼
Late-night acrylic silliness: #ESA #Juice, #NASA #EuropaClipper, #Ingenuity and #Mariner4.

An alien battleship in another world.

That's not too far from reality: an alien (to Mars) spaceship drops "wheels on the ground", then moves out, and dies.

The Sky Crane after delivering #Perseverance to the Martian ground. Umbilical cut. #Ingenuity held tight under the rover's belly.
Exactly 4 years ago.

De-bayered, processed EDL_RUCAM
RMC: 0.0000 (prelanding)
Sol: 0
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00293/ids/edr/browse/edl/EUE_0293_0692945892_348ECM_N0090000EDLC00293_0050LUJ01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#LandingOnMars #Mars2020 #solarocks #space

SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Feb 15th, 2025

https://bit.ly/stc021525

#Diabetes #antibiotic #resistance #infection ##Murchison #airplane #reflection #RFI CRISPR-Cas9 #Cas9 #RNA #metagenomics #Dragonfly #Titan #Methane #Ingenuity #Londinium #tribunal #70AD #preservation

#Ingenuity amazed everyone in late April 2022, when it flew around and captured images of the parachute and backshell that brought #Perseverance and itself to #Mars.

Here, the parachute is seen from orbit through the eyes of #HiRISE, an instrument onboard #NASA's #MRO, launched back in 2005.

The animation spreads over 12 months but lasts only 3 seconds, so the parachute appears flapping.

Credit:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/@65dBnoise

and these people:
https://www.uahirise.org/epo/about/

#Solarocks

@stefani
Haven't seen any. For #Ingenuity we have real footage with actual ground details. One could write an interesting scenario, including her dramatic last flight, and maybe also an interview, now that she is a retiree living at that beautiful beach down in Neretva Vallis, at the Valinor Hills resort. 😎 🙃

While waiting for news from #Ingenuity in the past, new ways were devised to keep the excitement high. Here, #Ingenuity was spotted from 480m afar after #Flight48 , by flickering before/after images captured by #Perseverance 11 sols apart.

Animated MCZ RIGHT, LEFT
FL: 110mm
Sols: 737, 748, RMC: 37.0000
Originals: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00748/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_0748_0733346536_832EBY_N0370000ZCAM05142_1100LMJ01.png
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00737/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0737_0732365748_818EBY_N0370000ZCAM08746_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#MarsHelicopter #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

#Ingenuity's #Flight47 captured from 120m away by #Perseverance on Sol 729. The camera was fixed and set to a 34mm focal length to capture as much of the action as possible, so resolution is not great, but this version zooms in and follows the #MarsHelicopter while it flies across the field, hopefully adding to the visual result.

MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 34mm
Sol: 729, RMC: 36.0000, LMST: 16:07:03

One original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00729/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0729_0731670427_773EBY_N0360000ZCAM01529_0340LMJ01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

#Flight41 of #Ingenuity scouted Rocky Top, an area north of Three Forks where #Perseverance spent a considerable amount of time during the first phase of its mission, before ascending to the Jezero delta. This video shows Hogwallow Flats and Rocky Top in two sequences, the second one being a "lock-on" view which I like much.

Rotated HELI_NAV animation
Sol: 689, Flight: 41, LMST: 16:02:50
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00689/ids/edr/browse/heli/HNM_0689_0728119185_617ECM_N0410001HELI03935_0000LUJ01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

End of Mission

One year ago on this day, Perseverance lost her little flying companion Ingenuity to the dunes of Valinor Hills.

📷 NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß @stim3on
ℹ️ https://science.nasa.gov/resource/ingenuity-at-valinor-hills/

#Mars #Ingenuity #ValinorHills #Perseverance #ThanksIngenuity #PerseveranceRover #NeretvaVallis #space #science #STEM #engineering #history #HistoryOfScience #astrodon #nasa #JPL #Caltech #news

@sharponlooker @stim3on
#Ingenuity is visible in one of those panoramas, and in VR mode.

That's the Neretva Vallis panorama with the #MarsHelicopter just above the white cross:

https://maps.planet.fu-berlin.de/jezero