[Ezekiel]

Nice article about utilizing the helicopter to assist Perseverance in its mission.

[Ezekiel]

NASA's experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity has now flown nine times

Nine times.

[Cen-Tejas]

Thanks for posting this interesting article. Nice to have some GOOD news for a change!

[Ezekiel]

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.”

>>>

“Séítah” (meaning “amidst the sand” in the Navajo language)

Must be some kind of code. :)

Ride boldly ride..

[blam]

Excellent! Way beyond expectations.

[Flick Lives]

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.

[Flick Lives]

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

[SuperLuminal]

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?

[Ezekiel]

It's always worthwhile to check for updates, because I just never know.

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.