And is about to start roving further afield!!!!
BBC News - Nasa's Ingenuity helicopter ... t-63965245
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Just keeps going - Ingenuity still active on Mars!
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Re: Just keeps going - Ingenuity still active on Mars!
Dead link for me I'm afraid....DavidWomby wrote: ↑December 14th, 2022, 5:15 pm And is about to start roving further afield!!!!
BBC News - Nasa's Ingenuity helicopter ... t-63965245
David
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In case it's an 'other side of the pond' issue this is a link from BBC UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63965245
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63965245
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Well done to the team involved.
I wish, that I knew what was doing!
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Amazing, isn't it?! NASA has a way of engineering their stuff so that it lasts a lot longer than predicted.
Paul
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Fascinating little story. Teaching Ginnie to do new things is like having a child in the house.
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The thing that fries my brain is the distance and the time delay that must be involved; I can't fly one of those damn things when it's right in front of me let alone when it takes half an hour for a control input to take effect...
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It's autonomous i.e. it is not under direct control from earth. Basically, the earth based operators send up a set of instructions to it and it then decides how it is going to implement the instructions and goes off and does them.
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Mars, a planet entirely populated by robots!
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Brave little copter finally crashed but what a phenomenal success.
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Very sad, but an incredible achievement!Paul
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Re: Just keeps going - Ingenuity still active on Mars!
From what I have read it is intact, but has damage to at least one of its rotor blades. It is still working though it can not fly, but may still be able to send useful information back.
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Greg
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Re: Just keeps going - Ingenuity still active on Mars!
Maybe Wokka and I should go up there with our bucket of rotor wash.
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