Posted on 02/05/2024 5:05:32 PM PST by Ezekiel
Ingenuity already looks lonely.
NASA's Perseverance Rover took a photo of its broken companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, as it sat alone on a dune.
In this most recent photo of Ingenuity, the dual-rotor 'copter can be seen motionless on a sandy dune in the background, as a barren, rocky Mars landscape fills the foreground.
The photo was taken on Feb. 4, 2024, at 1:05 p.m. local mean solar time, a little over two weeks since it suffered its mission-ending damage.
NASA and JPL's Ingenuity helicopter on the surface of Mars as seen by the Perseverance rover's
Mastcam-Z camera on Feb. 4, 2024. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Ingenuity suffered damage to its rotors during a flight on Jan. 18 as it made a landing on a featureless, "bland" patch of sandy Martian landscape. The helicopter usually makes use of landscape features such as rocks to help it navigate, but its 72nd flight found the drone without visual cues.
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Nothing a software update won’t fix.
I don’t think that lunar tourism will be a thing in my lifetime. Even if does happen, I won’t be able to afford it.
My impression is that a power failure during flight, resulted in a hard landing.
Amazing how the lens never gets dirty. Amazing.
Wonder if the rotor blades became brittle in the Martian atmosphere? It’s polar-cold at all times up there. The mean surface temperature on Mars is -80F.
NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter, broken and alone, spotted by Perseverance
THIS is why I keep going, for signs of life in the wilderness, like in this view of Ingenuity all alone in an isolated grave, abandoned where she "died"...
it's a living midrash on Mars (Ma'adim, the red planet, same root as Adam as you know):
The helicopter was initially designed to make just five flights --
As I've documented somewhere around here in the threads for the last couple of flights, there was an odd edit in the Flight Log at the time it had been updated for Flight 72:
The distance for Flight... 71... had been changed to 0. As I'd recorded on that flight's thread, the distance was 71 m. It was supposed to travel ~358m but landed well short, which is why 72 was a pop-up check.
Yet as it stands, the very last distance traveled and recorded for Ingenuity was the ~853 (ft), on Flight 70. (358 in reverse)
Yet the speed information remains in place for Flight 71's [יונה] travel of "0" distance: 7 m/s, ~ 15.7 mph. 35 [יהודי] seconds for the flight time. As if she'd been hovering, travelling but not travelling.
Yet somehow, it all lined up in the weirdest way, to end on 70 distance-wise, for
a story about Ingenuity, Adam's bright idea for problem-solving:
We know that Adam, the first person created, lived a long life of 930 years. But our Rabbis tend to analyze every tiny detail in the Tora and ask why Adam did not reach the more "perfect" number of 1000?
There is a beautiful midrash providing us with an answer. Adam Harishon was originally granted 1000 years of life on this earth. He was privy to see all the neshamot which would reside on earth after him; but one neshama was not shining as brightly as the others, it was flickering. Adam asked HaShem about this odd soul. God responded, telling Adam that this neshama belongs to someone who will die immediately after he is born; and what a shame that is, because this soul happened to have great potential. Adam immediately asks HaShem to take 70 years off of his own life and grant it to this neshama, which just so happened to belong to David Hamelech.
https://halakhaoftheday.org/2021/09/02/adam-and-david-a-70-years-gift/
One of the important souls significantly affected by Adam's sin was King David, who was now meant to die the moment he was born. Adam, taking responsibility for this tragedy, asked God if he could gift David with some of his years. God responded in the affirmative, so Adam granted 70 (a very significant and appropriate number) of his years to King David. Instead of living 1,000 years, Adam lived to be 930.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/king-david-and-the-angel-of-death/
Jud Strunk's Downeast Viewpoint
So we sent him on his way to cross Route 23. Where cars and trucks come crashing down, all to climb a tree...
But now and then I'll ponder, with a certain sort of grace, that every little boy must have, to go to David's Place.
Always good to check the map. Canaan is in the middle of Rt 23. Soll's Antiques in located in the center of town.
According to the website, Soll's
developed a passion for American Stained and Beveled Glass Windows and have handled thousands over the past 40 years.
And that
Isaiah has been working full time in the business for the past 20 years and handles the computer work as well as doing Shows, Buying and Selling.
Good to know. It's so hard to find good help these days.
our Rabbis tend to analyze every tiny detail in the Tora...
Especially important in year 70. They didn't want to be caught off-guard:
The tora of the title, although literally meaning "tiger", is actually an abbreviation of a two-syllable codeword (i.e., totsugeki raigeki 突撃雷撃, "lightning attack"), used to indicate that complete surprise had been achieved.[4]
Adam had asked HaShem about this Odd soul, because he was some nut willing to take on three tigers. (1970)
Isn't Ary the Lion just the best?
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That thought occurred to me at the beginning. But then the initial photos looked like impact happened that should not have happened, regardless of the condition of the materials.
Then after seeing this photo of the sand dunes, I could see how the rotors could have hit the ground... by whacking a ridge of sand from the side. And maybe the material had been weakened to make for a perfect storm.
Well, they did want to see what limits they could push. Directing Ginny over a blank canvas of sand was asking too much.
Toy Story missed this plotline angle.
If anyone needs Buzz and Woody for a mighty rescue, it's Ginny!
Is that Marvin the Martian standing off to the side?
Where’s the kaboom?
There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom!
Nope, I reckon that ain’t happening with me. Sad thing is, NASA had plans for over 100 Saturn V launches alone, and envisjoned a crewed landing on Mars around the 1986 launch window.
Flights to the Moon would have long been routine by now. They just threw all that they accomplished away, pretty much. One can argue they shouldn’t have spent all that money - but they already did. The infrastructure was there, and they didn’t do anything with it. Flying Brick for 20 years, and the next big mission - maybe in a couple years - is re-creating Apollo 8. That was in 1968.
With all the seemingly inevitable delays, maybe they can shoot for the 60th Anniversary Edition.
A, fantasy filled, bunch of horse manure. A continued, grift of taxpayer treasure.
The footprints will last a long time, but not forever.
Someone set it up the bomb..
I recall a show where they were talking about the undersea network of microphones. Once used to track subs, and now used to track marine animals.
At one point the guy was playing a bunch of tracks. “That is a humpback whale off the coast of California. That one is a group of Orca’s near Washington....
Then he played one that sounded like a sci-fy alien movie - it sounded part organic, part electrical. “That one? We have no idea what it is. But it is at about 20,000 feet deep in the Indian Ocean.”
I have tried to find that video again but never can.
Your comment reminds me of the famous undersea “bloop” sound, recorded by NOAA in 1997. You can search the word in quotes for more background.
I see none, but I cut and enlarged this:
It bears mention that the timing of the mission of Apollo 11 revolved around landing on the moon in the early lunar morning, when shadows would be longest, to preclude it suffering just such a fate.
The video was mostly useful for its panorama. Thanks much for adding this image.
Your contribution is especially interesting to me in its time (with that big arrow) because a few minutes ago I had been making some further improvements to my homepage, which included what you subsequently posted in image form.
ingenuity🌞Etymology
From Latin ingenuitās.ingenuitās
➡️ (originally) The condition of being free-born or noble ⬅️
noble-mindedness, ingenuousness
Call Three A’s if you have a policy.
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