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The team said the heli was flying at an angle. Presumably that meant flying under power, not just dropping under gravity. So, being powered, flying at an angle and hitting the ground at high velocity, is about as chaotic as it could get.
But the new theory sounds much more interesting, and also explains why we can't find the marks from the #Flight71 landing. My previous hypothesis for FLight 71 has it 50m to the east, while this one is just 1~2m to the west.
I like it a lot.
More context about #Ingenuity's #Flight71 from a previous post:
There is very little known about #Flight71, the one that preceded the final, both in details about the flight itself but also about its troublesome landing and its exact location. #Ingenuity's flight log does not yet list distances. AFAICT it has been assumed to be ~10m east of landing 72. Images that just arrived show nothing visible in that area, though they show what seems to be a recent disturbance ~50m ENE. More images are obviously needed 2b sure.
#Perseverance has another chance to get a glimpse of #Ingenuity at its sandy retirement resort in the following sols, and it may be the best of all, closer and from a different perspective than previously. Images taken with the SUPERCAM telescope may now capture landing marks from #Flight71, for which there is very little information available (the flight log still has no distance data for either #Flight71 or #Flight72) .
What's encouraging is that there
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There are still questions about #Flight71, the one that preceded fateful #Flight72, which too showed deep scuffs in the regolith (image). Could it be that the rotors showed signs of fatigue during #Flight71 but those signs went unnoticed, or were attributed to other causes?
This issue has not been addressed by #NASA, AFAIK. Here are some links discussing it:
• https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111852900551735336
• https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111743044636502500
• https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111812387447937319
• https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111750833533763835
• https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111788436672301562
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#Ingenuity's landing location after #Flight71. Deep marks visible where the front right foot would be, as well as a reflection of the sun or the sky at the center.
Processed, undistorted, rotated HELI_RTE
Image captured from RMC 71.0001/0
Sol 1025, LMST: 15:25:53
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01025/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_1025_0757945153_755ECM_N0710001HELI00000_000085J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
It appears that #NASA were ready to announce #Ingenuity's mishap during #Flight72 by Jan 18, the same day the flight took place. Or, a draft of something related to that event *or an event during previous #Flight71* leaked to the internet and was scraped by the search engine before it was removed.
NOTE: I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories. This could have a much simpler explanation.
Here's a screenshot of the search result:
Here is a timeline of my posts wrt the events of #Ingenuity's #Flight71 & #Flight72, dissecting publicly available information and images, for those who want to follow the events:
Jan 10:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111730860649965790
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111733156669782334
Jan 12:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111743044636502500
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111743110730267485
Jan 13:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111750833533763835
Jan 14:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111753635633151547
Jan 17:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111773177473027071
Jan 18:
https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111774596892276058
Image captured late on Sol 1040
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