Mars Ingenuity helicopter successfully completes second, riskier flight

[AProudLefty]

The Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed a second flight on Mars Thursday, and it was even more challenging than the first.

Ingenuity autonomously flew for almost 52 seconds this time, climbing 16 feet (4.9 meters) up through the Martian atmosphere. After a brief hover, it tilted at a 5-degree angle and moved sideways for 7 feet (2.1 meters).
The helicopter hovered in place again to make several turns. This occurred to allow Ingenuity's color camera to capture images taken looking in different directions before touching back down in the center of the airfield. Ingenuity only collected black-and-white images with its navigation camera during the first flight.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/22/world/mars-helicopter-second-flight-scn-trnd/index.html

Meanwhile, the rover produced oxygen!

The rover on Tuesday successfully converted some of the plentiful carbon dioxide on Mars into oxygen as a first test of its MOXIE instrument. The name MOXIE is short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment.
After warming up for about two hours, MOXIE produced 5.4 grams of oxygen. This is enough to sustain an astronaut for about 10 minutes.

Why don't we use that here on Earth? Republicans and conservatives need more oxygen to their brains.

 

[AProudLefty]

This is the first color image taken by the helicopter.

 

[Commander Dutch]

Ingenuity's specs.

Maximum Altitude: 3-5 meters.
Max range for contacting Perseverance: 300 meters
Max flight duration between every full Martian day recharge: 90 seconds.



https://www.americanscientist.org/article/nasas-ingenuity-mars-helicopter

 

[AProudLefty]

Third flight.

 

[AProudLefty]

"Mr. Spock, what did Captain Kirk leave in his bathroom?"
"Captain's log."

 

[Commander Dutch]

Third flight.

Awesome. No doubt they are using it to map out areas of interest for Perseverance.

 

[AProudLefty]

Peek-a-boo Perseverance!

 

[Commander Dutch]

Peek-a-boo Perseverance!

Awesome pics. The track prints on Mars are cool. Since the winds are so thin, I expect they'll be there awhile.

 

[AProudLefty]

Peek-a-boo Perseverance!

I just noticed the pattern on the track marks. Are they telling us something?

 

[Commander Dutch]

I just noticed the pattern on the track marks. Are they telling us something?

Just their search grid. I was looking at where Perseverance was programmed to explore and then applying those routes to the topography.

 

[AProudLefty]

Just their search grid. I was looking at where Perseverance was programmed to explore and then applying those routes to the topography.

Looks like a fist. Parallel searches make sense. We do that here, especially the crime scene units, in searching.

 

[Commander Dutch]

Looks like a fist. Parallel searches make sense. We do that here, especially the crime scene units, in searching.

Search patterns looking for lost people are regimented, but in this case the course of Perseverance was probably directed by choices of geologists and other scientists evaluating the photos. You can see where it was just moving along and where it stopped and did something.

https://i.imgur.com/js2NCkx.jpg

 

[AProudLefty]

Is that a bird?

 

[cancel2 2022]

"Mr. Spock, what did Captain Kirk leave in his bathroom?"
"Captain's log."

Why do you Americans go shit in the bath, what's wrong with the toilet?

 

[Hawkeye10]

I am still detecting almost no interest. Part of this is because the Revolution is stomping on any happy news about America because that gets in the way of their narrative that America is so terrible that it must be burned to the ground, right now, there will be no quibbling about it.

But I think a part of it is that almost no one cares, this has nothing to do with our lives, which are turning to shit rapidly.

 

[AProudLefty]

Why do you Americans go shit in the bath, what's wrong with the toilet?

LOL

 

[Commander Dutch]

Is that a bird?

The only one on Mars.

 

[AProudLefty]

The only one on Mars.

Are you certain? It could be a bug. Perhaps a yuge dragonfly?

 

[PoliTalker]

The Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed a second flight on Mars Thursday, and it was even more challenging than the first.

Ingenuity autonomously flew for almost 52 seconds this time, climbing 16 feet (4.9 meters) up through the Martian atmosphere. After a brief hover, it tilted at a 5-degree angle and moved sideways for 7 feet (2.1 meters).
The helicopter hovered in place again to make several turns. This occurred to allow Ingenuity's color camera to capture images taken looking in different directions before touching back down in the center of the airfield. Ingenuity only collected black-and-white images with its navigation camera during the first flight.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/22/world/mars-helicopter-second-flight-scn-trnd/index.html

Meanwhile, the rover produced oxygen!

The rover on Tuesday successfully converted some of the plentiful carbon dioxide on Mars into oxygen as a first test of its MOXIE instrument. The name MOXIE is short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment.
After warming up for about two hours, MOXIE produced 5.4 grams of oxygen. This is enough to sustain an astronaut for about 10 minutes.

Why don't we use that here on Earth? Republicans and conservatives need more oxygen to their brains.

Awesome!

The oxygen thing - wow.

Too bad the conversion is so expensive it would not be practical on Earth to convert CO2 to O2.

 

[Commander Dutch]

Awesome!

The oxygen thing - wow.

Too bad the conversion is so expensive it would not be practical on Earth to convert CO2 to O2.

Plants do a great job of converting CO2 into O2.

Pretty cool proving the concept works under Martian conditions.