65dBnoiseOct 5, 2023

The emergency landing of #Flight53 was rough, but apparently #Ingenuity managed well. This new image shows that same airfield, but one sol after #Flight53, interestingly bearing an ID 54 instead of 53 πŸ€” .

More about the aborted #Flight53: https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/110850616981350967

Processed, undistorted, leveled HELI_RTE
Sol: 865, RMC: 54.0001, LMST: 10:07:10
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00865/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_0865_0743721578_212ECM_N0540001HELI00000_000085J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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65dBnoiseAug 17, 2023

#Perseverance moved another ~135m to the south on Sol 885, following a path the #MarsHelicopter scouted on Sol 872 ( cut short #Flight53 ).

The path marked with a white double line is a guess.

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65dBnoiseAug 7, 2023

What happened with #Ingenuity's anomalous #Flight53 ?

"[...] the helicopter executed the first half of its autonomous journey, flying north at an altitude of 16 feet (5 meters) for 466 feet (142 meters). Then a flight-contingency program was triggered, and Ingenuity automatically landed." #LAND_NOW

Read the rest here: https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9457/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-flies-again-after-unscheduled-landing/

Note: Teddy Tzanetos is now team lead *emeritus* for Ingenuity, apparently working on #MSR's #SRH

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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Again After Unscheduled Landing

The helicopter performed a short hop to help the team better understand why its previous flight was interrupted.

NASA Mars Exploration
65dBnoiseAug 4, 2023

#Ingenuity flew its "pop-up" #Flight54 on Sol 872, possibly to reset its instruments after the small adventure it appears it had during #flight53.

Here is an animation of its landing:

8 processed, undistorted, stabilized, animated HELI_NAV images
Sol: 872, RMC: 54.0001, LMST: 15:13:25
Original (1 of 8): https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00872/ids/edr/browse/heli/HNM_0872_0744361880_451ECM_N0540001HELI01562_0000A0J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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Show thread65dBnoiseAug 3, 2023

It is possible that during #Flight53 an anomaly occurred which may have led to #Ingenuity's disorientation or otherwise loss of ground reference. That could explain the low altitude of the flight (5m instead of 10m) and its much shorter duration and length. Resetting of the parameters used by the software to allow the IMU to substitute for the damaged inclinometer may be the reason for short #Flight54, "for heli localization".

Just speculating 😎

Show thread65dBnoiseAug 2, 2023
If #Flight53 was indeed abnormal, then #Ingenuity did a marvelous job landing safely, and so did its team and the #Mars2020 team in resolving the situation AND localizing the heli.
65dBnoiseAug 1, 2023

So this question arises: if the plan for #Flight53 was to scout and cover 203m of ground, why did it do a straight line flight of only 142m? Even if this is a preliminary localization, still the flight seems rather abnormal.

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Show thread65dBnoiseAug 1, 2023

it's currently in, called Fall River Pass.

As with previous scouting flights, the flight would not be straight, but would follow a path designed for the #MarsHelicopter to capture images of the areas of interest.

The map above shows two possible flight paths in yellow dashed lines, covering different areas around the planned route. The old landing estimate is in red. Matching letters on the map and in the image below show the ground features used in the triangulation.
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Show thread65dBnoiseJul 31, 2023

New location of #Ingenuity after its #Flight53. No HELI_NAV images have been downlinked yet, so this is just a rough estimate of the landing spot; we also no not know when the flight occurred. More to come.

The map also shows the FOV of the image in the previous post.

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65dBnoiseJul 31, 2023

@mars_stu on Xitter, spotted #Ingenuity at its new landing 53, about 3 hours ago. Meaning, it's possible that the #MarsHelicopter had already flown #Flight53 when #Perseverance arrived at its RMC 42.1460 location on Sol 868, and that's why it didn't show up in the NAVCAM images.

h/t @stim3on

A map follows.

Animated, processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 63mm
Sol: 868, RMC: 42.1460, LMST: 14:16:32
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00868/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_0868_0744003258_956EBY_N0421460ZCAM08873_0630LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

#Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space