After its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this color image showing the shadow of one of its rotor blades, which was damaged during touchdown.
That'll buff right out...
Excellent.
So it will be coming home now?
It’s dead again Jim
Can’t they put the poor thing out of its misery? It’s just sitting there waiting for the order to take off. Straining...straining...
Poor thing. Mission accomplished many time over.
Matt Damon could have MacIvered it for transport.
Thanks for posting this.
They put this update out a little while after they updated the Flight log, and after I had posted the thread about it.
My son is an engineer at NASA. The first mission he was on, a solar observatory launched the week he was born and was supposed to end before he turned four. It’s still operational.
think of all the engineering successes with this device.
“a flying machine on another planet.packaging, launchimg, landing, and it survived, to fly all this tome.
what was discovered, and theories realized, and airframes proven.
That's like 21 dog years.
After its 72nd flight on Jan. 18, 2024, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this color image showing the shadow of one of its rotor blades, which was damaged during touchdown.
That'll buff right out...
Thank God we don’t have to hear about it anymore like the 62nd flight was any more eventful than the first
"NASA announced the end of mission for Ingenuity on Jan. 25, 2024."
After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends
And now for the first fruits from Ingenuity (remember her Easter birth story?):
Ginny's first Rosh Hashanah was in 5782 (2021).
5783 (2022), 5784 (2023)...
Marking the end of the mission, today was:
New Year for TreesToday is Tu BiShevat ("the 15th of Shevat") which marks the beginning of a "New Year for Trees." This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle.
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day.asp?tdate=1/25/2024
The prohibition on orlah fruit (lit. "uncircumcised" fruit) is a command found in the Bible not to eat fruit produced by a tree during the first three years after planting.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlah
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However, even after the third Rosh Hashanah marks the completion of three years, the fruit which blossoms in the fourth year before Tu'bishvat is treated as orlah as well. This is because this fruit was nourished from sap that the tree produced before Rosh Hashana. If fruit blossomed after Tu'bishvat of the fourth year, we assume that the fruit was nourished from the current year's sap, and the fruit is not orlah. The Shach (YD 294:10) quotes the Rosh who notes that in our climate, trees don't ordinarily blossom before Tu'bishvat, so one may assume that all fruit that is found on the tree in the fourth year is not orlah.
Huh? What tree is Ingenuity? The Ingenuity Tree. 🎄 Of Kufu:
工夫
kufū,
lit. ingenuity, from the land named for being the source of the Sun. That great pyramid has been generating ingenuity for all the whats hows and whys spun up since time immemorial even as no one caught on to the Power of the Firs.
Kufu, or of K-Ops, like I posted two days ago (at 'No More Than 2 or 3 Cups Each Per Year'), but here I included the 'capstone':
🍩 there's no guesswork, rotors = branches:
STATUS UPDATES | December 23, 2022
Happy Holidays from Jezero Crater
Written by Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity Team Lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter family wishes you and yours the happiest of holiday seasons.
O Ingenuity
O Ingenuity, O Mars Heli
How lovely are thy rotors
O Ingenuity, O Mars Heli
How lovely are thy rotors
Your coat, so silvery in Martian light
Keep you warm, in Winter Time
O Ingenuity, O Mars Heli
How lovely are thy rotors
Their design lifts faithfully
Our trust in them unchangedly
O Ingenuity, O Mars Heli
How lovely are thy rotors
https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/429/happy-holidays-from-jezero-crater/
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Note that this, like most “NASA” successes, comes from JPL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NASA, with its own management and staff. It was part of CalTech, until the 50s. Artemis, SLS, and other non-jpl projects tend to be poorly managed long-delayed over-budget bureaucratic monstrosities.
-PJ