Mars 2020 Missions

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Stunning Mars landscape panorama taken by Perseverance on Sol 762.

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Incredible photo taken by Mars mini-chopper Ingenuity on its 51st flight, with its mothership the Perseverance rover visible on the left part of the image, parked close to the rim of Belva Crater on Sol 772.

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Mars Moon Deimos as imaged by the UAE Hope orbiter as it prepares to carry out a series of close flybys of the moon, poorly imaged in detail by previous Mars spacecraft.

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The little Ingenuity chopper just keeps going, and going...and going! 🚁 💕

Yesterday it completed its 60th flight, logging up a total of 13.8 kilometres (8.5 miles) travelled since deployment and on flight 59, footage of which can be seen in the Youtube vid below, it broke its altitude record by ascending to 20 metres (66 feet) above the Martian surface.

https://youtu.be/1Gtbs1Iv-sg?si=l9wQJOlt3Y71MavZ

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Ingenuity has now completed an astounding 70 flights, totting up a total of almost 17 kilometres (10.5 miles) since its deployment in April 2021.

Below is a large-scale detailed terrain map generated from imagery from the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the flight path of the NASA Mars Ingenuity mini-chopper and the location and route of its Perseverance rover mothership.

Contours are in 1 metre intervals. Ingenuity and Perseverance have been exploring the ancient river delta area and are now at the Neretva Vallis ancient river channel that generated the delta.

Quantum Erasure

Looks like there could be a problem with Ingenuity, hopefully it's nothing serious and they're able to re-establish communication

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Update

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Good news, but I suppose the communications outage shows us that the plucky and frankly incredible Ingenuity will not last forever.

It's wildly exceeded all expectations by the scientists - and IMO each additional flight is a bonus.

Shlippery

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121649650#Comment_121649650

I've never been so invested! Planned 4 flights...got up to 72! Hopefully they can reunite and see what shape the helicopter is in!

https://twitter.com/daily_hopper/status/1748832607830147198/photo/4

https://twitter.com/daily_hopper/status/1749099721698722269

Quantum Erasure

Looks like Ingenuity has flown it's last

https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1750604002331406713

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Image of the damaged Ingenuity mini chopper sitting upright on a dune in the Neretva Vallis ancient river channel as seen by Perseverance.

Astounding for it to make 72 flights before its rotor was damaged in an emergency landing.

Mission planners do not intend Perseverance to venture right up close to Ingenuity to inspect it for engineering purposes, presumably because the sandy terrain might put the rover itself at risk.

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Amazing images of Mars moons Phobos (upper) and Deimos (lower) transiting the Sun, taken by Perseverance earlier this week.