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65dBnoise65dBnoise
2025-05-29

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 and ¹ (which is presently watching sand shift in the light summer breeze at the Valinor Hills beach), with Mars24, a Java program by , based on equations by Allison and McEwen:
giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/hel

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

¹ assuming the is still functional

SpaceNewsspacenews.com@web.brid.gy
2025-03-14

Where no rover has gone before: how Mars helicopters enable a new era of exploration

fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenew

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2025-01-23

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

Animated MCZ RIGHT, LEFT
FL: 110mm
Sols: 737, 748, RMC: 37.0000
Originals: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima
Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2025-01-22

's captured from 120m away by 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 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: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2025-01-17

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

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

maps.planet.fu-berlin.de/jezero

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2024-12-29

The UHF antenna used to communicate with will certainly gather a lot more dust until it is used again to listen to, and, with a chance of one in a million, talk to the again.

Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 34mm
looking from RMC 64.0000
Sol 1357, LMST: 12:54:10

Original: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2024-12-28

's engineers and managers next to the Collier Trophy, in June 2022.

Incidentally, all four engineers directly involved with the design and operation of the are either first generation Americans, or born elsewhere in the world. From left to right:
- Teddy Tzanetos, of Greek descent
- Bob Balaram, born in India
- MiMi Aung, of Burmese descent
- Håvard Grip (far right), born in Norway

The Ingenuity experiment. Like the American experiment.

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️AstroHawk@spacey.space
2024-12-12

"NASA believes it understands why Ingenuity crashed on Mars" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - First ever investigation into an aircraft crash on another planet has concluded. #NASA #MarsHelicopter🚁 #Ingenuity had difficulty auto-navigating on flat featureless terrain. Unable to detect and counteract its wind drift, it touched down with horizontal motion that tipped it over, and damaged all its rotor blades on impact, and ripped one off. arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/ #Mars #aviation #avgeek #drone

Trevor McLeodtabmcleo
2024-12-12

News about the and why it crashed

arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/

Blue_ONblue_on@qdon.space
2024-12-12

사상 처음으로 다른 행성에서 항공사고가 났습니다. #MarsHelicopter
2021년에 화성에서 임무를 시작한 무인 헬리콥터 NASA Ingenuity는 예정된 몇 개월간의 임무를 마치고 무기한의 연장 임무를 수행중이었습니다.
Ingenuity는 카메라를 이용해 지형을 판단하는데, 인식 문제로 기울어진 표면에 착륙했습니다.
2800RPM이라는 로터 회전률은 로터를 부러뜨리기에 충분했고, 이제 Ingenuity는 날지 못합니다.
아직 확실한 정황은 더 조사해봐야겠지만, 이게 일단 확인된 내용 전부이며, 컨퍼런스에서 발표가 진행되었습니다. 컨퍼런스 내용은 밑 링크에 있습니다.
youtu.be/p45y3ea9vHY

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2024-12-11

The

youtube.com/watch?v=uz4GaAE7OMQ

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2024-12-11

Talking about …

"[T]he helicopter still beams weather and avionics test data to the rover about once a week." 😍 😍 💕 (last heard from it on Nov 21, Sol 1330)

A detailed assessment of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s final flight on Jan. 18, 2024, which will be published in the next few weeks as a NASA technical report.

jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-perform

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2024-12-11

We might as well now say goodbye to , for it will be very long till has an opportunity to be in radio range with the again, or have a line-of-sight to it.

As seen in the map, this is the closest the rover will get to the heli being visible (light toned area) for several years.

𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫!

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2024-12-06

More news about 😀

The new PDS release is now loaded on the , and there's tons of interesting details in there.

One intriguing detail is that there is activity regarding the as late as Sol 1255:

Sol 1256 2024-09-01 Helicopter transfer
Sol 1237 2024-08-12 Helicopter Comm Check
Sol 1223 2024-07-29 Helicopter Check In
Sol 1214 2024-07-20 Helicopter Check-in

Apparently have not abandoned the little heli 😍

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2024-12-06

Maps showing the location of the when the image above was captured.

Drawn with using data from 's , map imagery from and DTMs from

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2024-12-06

You may not believe it, but a new RTE image just dropped in!

It is not a fresh one that the sent home, but rather an old one, from when the heli was trying to reach the Neretva Vallis ancient riverbed. The marks seen on the regolith are from previous landing.

Processed, undistorted HELI_RTE
Image captured from RMC 66.0001/0
Sol 964, LMST: 10:17:50

Original: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

Credit: /JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2024-10-21

has now entered a large area along its planned route, where there's no line-of-sight to . While this hides the from view, it's possible that its beacon may still be heard, if it hasn't frozen to death in this Martian winter and is able to wake up in the coming spring (now 10.9° till spring equinox)

Would love to hear something about it. , if you are listening…

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2024-09-28

At last, a MastcamZ image captured in the direction of , albeit one at half the max resolution (110mm) of the camera, 63mm.

And, lo and behold, the IS VISIBLE!

From a distance of roughly 2km, it occupies 6 whole pixels in total! 😃

Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 63mm
looking NE (43°) from RMC 60.0390
Sol 1282, LMST: 15:04:08

Original: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

Credit: /JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2024-09-15

As fades into the distance, an old daguerreotype-like photograph of its whereabouts seems appropriate.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerre

(It also keeps it from fading into oblivion 😎 )

Processed, cropped NAVCAM_LEFT
looking NE (44°) from RMC 59.2902
Sol 1269, LMST: 13:35:44

See the original:
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

Credit: /JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

65dBnoise65dBnoise
2024-09-13

New location for on Sol 1268, RMC 59.2902, 165m to the south and 27m higher, right along the planned route.

is now visible, and will remain visible for the rest of the trip to the top.

The map was made with , 's , and

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