After nearly 3 years of time on the Martain surface, the Ingenuity helicopter will never fly again. In a new report from NASA, the agency revealed that a recent flight and hard landing has damaged one of the rotors. The extent of the damage is enough to where Ingenuity would not be capable of any flights in the future, ending its mission.
In the time that it was on the red planet, Ingenuity has flown over two hours in total covering a distance of more than 11 miles (17km). It also served as an extremely valuable asset to the Mars rover which would determine routes based on what Ingenuity saw during its flights. Here I will go more in-depth into the helicopter’s damage, how the hard landing happened, what this means for the future, and more.
Full article here – https://thespacebucket.com/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-can-no-longer-fly/
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NASA – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ
Chapters:
0:00 – Intro
0:38 – Hard Landing
3:36 – Ingenuity’s Importance
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Rip ingenuity 😢 🕊️🕊️🕊️
A little bit of AI might have helped. But don't ask me exactly how. What a pity.
well I hope nasa will examen the wreckage, helicopters definitly work and studying the afthermath could be significant data
How long can perseverance go on btw? Since it doesn't have solar powered energy it should be possible to know exactly how long before it run low on energy, even if i doubt it'll happen anytime soon since it's equipped with an RTG but i wanted to know.
This is really sad.
I hope we can see an aircraft on another planet again someday. Maybe for the Mars sample return mission, or NASA's Dragonfly mission to Titan.
Why not one last attempt to see what happens? What benefit is there to just leaving it upright as it is, after downloading the rest of it's memory that is?
That's ok. Musk will fix everything when he gets to mars last year.
Its been three years already? It took alot longer to fail than alot of people expected.
This channel delivers info so well that I’m willing to forgive the stock footage. Which I hate.
"The ingenuity helicopter will never fly again" 😐
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew for the last time on Jan. 18, 2024. NASA announced the end of mission
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it was only supposed to last 5 flights, not 72. it wasn't built to withstand a Martian Winter but it survived 2 of them and even performed successful flights during those winters, something which NASA wasn't sure was possible due to how thin the Martian Atmosphere gets during the Martian Winter. Its internal Heater has been disabled to save power since the first year so the hardware has survived this long completely exposed to the extreme conditions of the Martian Environment.
Really sad of this legendary vehicle 😢
Can't the rover repair the blade with some epoxy resin ??? rebalance it and update the flight control algorithm ???
Is Mars ok?
Why doesn't NASA launch a new Mars Helicopter, maybe a 2nd gen design, to land and take the place of the damaged Helicopter ? Such a small mass launch would be easy.
Ryanair on mars be like 💀💀💀💀
Ingenuity suffered rotor damage and crashed after being hit by an RPG that was fired from a nearby Russian lander.