CompiMar 25, 2024
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According to #Ingenuity's Chief Engineer Travis Brown (2h interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4XpLZqc6ao), the plan for the heli after #Flight72 was to meet #Perseverance somewhere close to Bright Angel, a future science target for the rover. The rover would take some pictures of the heli from close range to document changes on the hardware that had occurred over the course of 3 years.

Brown also mentioned that Ingenuity's budget was running dry

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before the crash, and also that there was a sense that their mission would soon come to an end, so they were thinking about retiring the #MarsHelicopter on a hilltop, where it would be something like a monument of human achievement. And that's what happened, although it ended up not on a pedestal, but in sand dunes.

#Ingenuity is currently logging solar data, temperature data, and can take pictures on a daily basis.

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