Just so that we don't forget little #MarsHelicopter #Ingenuity that's now retiring up at Valinor Hills, in the Neretva Vallis ancient riverbed, in NW Jezero crater.
180 processed and colorized HELI_NAV images, played at 5fps
RMC: 28.0001, Sol: 423
LMST: 11:52:43
UTC: 2022-04-29T07:42:09
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
@personifieddevil @BrodieOnLinux yes and no.
The #SpaceShuttle program got aborted because they couldn't get new old stock of radiation hardened chips, and to this day you have stuff like #ISA cards and #i486 systems in many #CriticalInfrastructure because noone can or wants to reimplement systems.
And believe it or not, #git may be part of the toolchain for something that runs #VxWorks and goes into space:
As for #Rust, I rarely see benefits outweight the costs…
@[email protected] @[email protected] Personally I'm tending more to go into the camp of *"please just make a #fork in #Rust and once it's feature-complete we can migrate to it"*… - Cuz rarely do I see *"just redo [this] in Rust!"* as a solution to a problem. That doesn't mean I'm against using Rust at all, and @[email protected] is a good example what can be done… - I'm just pragmatic in that *"reinventing the wheel"* is rarely a solution to *"bumpy ride"* when something is hard-mounted to a chassis and doesn't even have air-filled rubber tires...
Where no rover has gone before: how Mars helicopters enable a new era of exploration
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
#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
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
News about the #MarsHelicopter and why it crashed
#NASA #space #Exploration #ingenuity
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/nasa-believes-it-understands-why-ingenuity-crashed-on-mars/
Talking about #Ingenuity…
"[T]he helicopter still beams weather and avionics test data to the #Perseverance 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.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-performs-first-aircraft-accident-investigation-on-another-world/
We might as well now say goodbye to #Ingenuity, for it will be very long till #Perseverance has an opportunity to be in radio range with the #MarsHelicopter 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.
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