An image taken by the Ingenuity helicopter of its shadow on Mars during the chopper's ninth flight,
on July 5, 2021. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Posted on 07/06/2021 2:23:33 PM PDT by Ezekiel
Ingenuity tested out some new tricks on its ninth flight.
NASA's experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity has now flown nine times on the Red Planet, letting mission engineers test a host of capabilities that could pave the way for more Martian choppers.
Ingenuity made its ninth flight on Mars on Monday (July 5), when it remained aloft for 166.4 seconds and flew as fast as 16 feet (5 meters) per second, according to a tweet from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, which oversees the project.
Before the flight, NASA announced that the little aircraft would attempt new feats on this sortie, including taking a shortcut over rocky terrain unsafe for the helicopter's much larger companion, the Perseverance rover, mission personnel wrote in a July 2 statement.
An image taken by the Ingenuity helicopter of its shadow on Mars during the chopper's ninth flight,
on July 5, 2021. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Nine times.
Thanks for posting this interesting article. Nice to have some GOOD news for a change!
An image taken by the Ingenuity helicopter of its shadow<<<
I love that poem.
Eldorado
Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
But he grew old—
This knight so bold—
And o’er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.
And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow—
“Shadow,” said he,
“Where can it be—
This land of Eldorado?”
“Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,”
The shade replied—
“If you seek for Eldorado!”
***
“Rather than continuing to skip ahead of the rover, however, we will now attempt to do something that only an aerial vehicle at Mars could accomplish — take a shortcut straight across a portion of the Séítah region and land on a plain to the south. On the way, we plan to take color aerial images of the rocks and ripples that we pass over.”
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“Séítah” (meaning “amidst the sand” in the Navajo language)
Must be some kind of code. :)
Ride boldly ride..
Excellent! Way beyond expectations.
Ingenuity has little value in research but has some. It is a proof of concept and has succeeded in the extreme. In the future bigger copters, more payload and scientific instrumentation. Thus we pick the areas of great interest and send a rover there. It is a win win. Today our rovers go to areas we think are of interest from orbital cameras. Most areas just become more of the same and a waste of time. With the “Mars Chopper” we can explore many areas and cross them off the list of importance and no need for a rover to go there. Areas of interest will be explored by the Rovers.
PS
At our present level of technology man should not explore Mars. We could put a man on Mars at a cost of Trillions and then return him. That is stupid (can you hear me Elon Musk). That same amount of money utilizing robotic missions to Mars and also the Moon would return multiple times scientific information than a maned mission.
It is all about cost of payload to orbit, cost of a vehicle that will sustain human life, and cost of the vehicle to return to Earth.
If Elon Musk want to do this on his dime, that is okay. I do not want to pay for it with tax money as is for his Tesla. HE DOES MAKE SUPERIOR ROCKETS!
As amazing as the helicopter flights on mars have been is the fact the Ingenuity team has now applied I think at least two software updates to Ingenuity. Pretty wild to think of software being installed on a computer system on Mars, 250 million miles away.
On the fourth flight, Perseverance had a microphone turned on so you could hear the sound of the helicopter. It sounds a bit like a very tiny, very fast spinning leaf blower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5niGi4k9vQ
I’d hate to see the data charges for that though!
CC
I’m amazed!
Did not now that it had sails...
How much Martian wind was blowing to assist this flight?
What exactly was applying pressure to the billowing sails...
Does Perseverance have a spinnaker too?
Bueller...
For the US, yes stupid; for the Chinese no. And that’s why they will take the high ground.
We need to save our US tax money for important things like CRT studies, sex change operations, broadening gender studies, and supplying free stuff and housing to the homeless and illegal aliens. Screw manned missions above 50,000 feet.
Take Ingenuity's Hebrew wiki page, for example. At some point the editors caught up with the nickname and placed it in the first line:
שם חיבה ג'יני
I don't exactly have a normal functional knowledge of the language, but things jump out.
The term for "nickname" was not the one with which I was familiar (kinui). Meaning, I needed to look that up.
shem chibah, "name of affection" -- שם חיבה
Ginny is a girl's name and what do you know about this particular Ginny, which is short for Ingenuity?
It states right there that the "living name is in her":
שם חי בה
The living name is in her.. certainly a familiar concept in the family of names and their inner essence, especially as it is the Yechida.
"Ginny" [ג'יני] - there's wine in her as well.
Add in that Ingenuity's logo is NASA's iconic worm logo in red, which is over in Psalm 22/7, David and/or Esther:
"But I am a worm, and not a man; scorned by men, and despised by the people:"
Funny about those scarlet letters, because the A was replaced with little Ginny, typically a nickname for Virgin-ia.
She sure is being put to the test. Richard Rodgers (Born into a Jewish family in Queens..) must have prophetically compose this song for her:
So let them bring on all their problems
I'll do better than my best
I have confidence
They'll put me to the test
But I'll make them see
I have confidence in me
Somehow I will impress them
I will be firm, but kind
And all those children
Heaven bless them
They will look up to me
And mind me.
Sounds like the quintessential Jewish mother.
It's just like the baroness said,
And somewhere out there. . .
. . .is a young lady who, I think. . .
. . .will never be a nun.
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