Constantin
Celeste LabedzNASA stated that the Ingenuity helicopter has officially taken its last flight. 72 out of 5 planned flights is pretty darn good.
Julia
Frank Skornia@celestelabedz Damnit. Suddenly it got very dusty and some random person started cutting onions nearby 😢
Jim Hughes ☢️
J.Sʜᴀʀᴘ🌍🇺🇦Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ&DᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏI actually feel sad. I bet they'll be quite a bit of sadness by the folks back at NASA.
Night night Inge.
WWSchoof 📯
Pēteris Krišjānis@celestelabedz damn NASA, always overachievers 😅 Flying helicopter on the surface of another planet? What is this, sci-fi movie?
Team, you did good o7 Also thank you, little copter
Team, you did good o7 Also thank you, little copter
anjune@celestelabedz *sniffles a bit*
GhostsheetZ@celestelabedz the best lil helicopter.
Sally Monster@celestelabedz I'm having more feelings about this than seems rational.
CautionWIP (he/him) 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🕎@SallyMonster @celestelabedz It may be a pathetic fallacy, but it’s a very human one. 👍
John LuskClearly not designed or manufactured by Boeing.
I wonder how long it'll be before more modern crap starts coming out the other end of the pipeline and failing on, say, Europa?
GVF 🇨🇦@celestelabedz I don't know why that is so moving.
Edelruth, PBS Passport HolderIs anyone else crying?
Humans are stupid anthromorphicsizers. Wipes away a tear.
Irina@celestelabedz Also makes me think of this https://archiveofourown.org/works/17772887
chris@celestelabedz Hey, he's not dead ! 😢
He's crippled
and alone
millions of km away from us.
wait, that's worse.
Brownian_motion@celestelabedz Aww,NO! This was the best science story to sell to the public ever. I’m feeling a true sadness. #NASA overachieved with #ingenuity, flying a helicopter on another world, where there is something like 1% of the air we have here, and doing it 72 times. Amazing!
abovearthPet the helicopter.
Hug the helicopter.
Praise the helicopter and everyone that helped the helicopter exist.
Leon Cowle@celestelabedz @bgrinter I did not have “Tearing up for a damn helicopter" on my bingo card for today!
J.S. Pailly@celestelabedz That hit me in the feels.
Gabriel Pettier
KanaMauna@celestelabedz All Robots go to Heaven
Marcin Juszkiewicz 🙃So I cannot say "my code flies on Mars anymore"?
Geert Uytterhoeven@hrw @celestelabedz My code rests on Mars.
Clive ThompsonThat vehicle absolutely rocked
Even given NASA's track record of probes that dramatically outperform their original specs ...
... it stood out
Atomic FoxAdmittedly most helicopters are pretty awful, so there's not all that much competition!
Karen E. Lund 💙💛@celestelabedz Sometimes I have to put aside my 21st century cynicism and say "People flew a helicopter on Mars. That it worked once borders on miraculous."
Samantaz Fox@celestelabedz Oh no, poor thing :'(
At least it lived much longer than initially planned:
At least it lived much longer than initially planned:
`Da Elf@celestelabedz Shit. I'm a little choked up and misty over that one. *sniff*