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

#Flight28 #NASA #Solarocks #Space

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

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/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

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#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

One original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00729/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0729_0731670427_773EBY_N0360000ZCAM01529_0340LMJ01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

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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/

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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.

𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐲𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫!

#QGIS #Mars2020 #NASA #Solarocks #Space #PDSAnalystNotebook

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

And, lo and behold, the #MarsHelicopter 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: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01282/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1282_0780758855_832EBY_N0600390ZCAM09340_0630LMJ01.png

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space