https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends
NASA's history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned. While the helicopter remains upright and in communication with ground controllers, imagery of its Jan. 18 flight sent to Earth this week indicates one or more of its rotor blades sustained damage during landing, and it is no longer capable of flight.
Rest in power little guy
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They're a bunch of kitty strags if they don't try to fly it again
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If they did that it would definitely break completely and then they wouldn't be able to fix it later
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you are also a kitty strag
i flew a LOT of RC helicopters with blade damage LOL it's not even a guarantee you'll have difficulty flying.
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How many did you fly on mars with a huge signal delay?
Frick you're r-slurred and dumb. You srsly think a bunch of phds wouldn't try to fly if they could.
Get your butt back to the stupid field you fly your drones and keep pretending your experience is relevant.
No one else thinks so
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NASA is extremely risk averse... the machine is already broken, and it can't serve a useful purpose on the ground, so why not try?
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I don't think they would try to fly it if they could, because they are actively avoiding trying. How is this not obvious to you right now?
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I have to assume it's self stabilizing
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Isnt it a physical problem? How would they fix it later? Even if there's a manned mission in our lifetimes, assuming they could locate it and it doesn't get buried under sediment or smth, would they seriously go out and try to fix some old drone lol?
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They know exactly where it is, and seeing an Ingenuity flight would be a great exhibit at the Mars Museum
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It'll be buried in rust by the time any human can land on Mars and waste all that time to retrieve it.
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just dig it out. corrosion doesn't seem to be a big issue https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190027256/downloads/20190027256.pdf
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Yeah that's worth the money and resources within the next 50 years of human-laden Mars trips.
FLY THE FRICKER TIL IT DIES, THEN SHOVE IT IN A MUSEUM.
NASA has no balls.
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found the incel
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HOW MANY MARS HELICOPTERS HAVE YOU FLOWN B-WORD
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when elon flies up there next year he's gonna bring an extra blade
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Actually though like the frickin thing is already there, not like crashing it makes the situation any worse if the alternative is it sitting there. God NASA sucks butt.
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