Posted on 03/24/2022 9:10:58 PM PDT by Ezekiel
Am I alone in being underwhelmed by the flights so far? I understand there’s something like a 23 minute lag between when something happens on Mars, and when we see the video, but I assume the copter is autonomous, and flies on it’s own. So, I don’t really understand why these flights are so short.
Ginny's a tiny little gal, not a jumbo jet. :)
Battery storage.
They’ll do better next time.
A lot better.
If I was the Wizard of Mars I would have used a series of disposable hydrogen balloons first.
23
March 24 (Sol 388)
129.1 sec.
358 m (1,175 ft)
Shift northwest flying across northwest Seìtah to land at Airfield O
Another flight on the way to a position near the base of the delta.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)#List_of_flights
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Funny, I had just been writing about Esther, about when she had been appealing to the king to save her people — the pure in heart — when this update had come through. It had been posted 3 hours before I saw it.
Good news, too, because I didn’t remember having a list for 388, but I actually had a couple of entries:
l’Mashiach
damsel in distress [עלמה במצוקה]
(the stock character being an analog to Esther)
Some while back I had located her on the page about Prince Charming/White horse rider, because that one had a Hebrew page:
Prince Charming is a fairy tale stock character who comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress and must engage in a quest to liberate her from an evil spell. This classification suits most heroes of a number of traditional folk tales, including “Snow White”, “Sleeping Beauty”, and “Cinderella”, even if in the original story they were given another name, or no name at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Charming
The 358 m[an].
It’s really quite an accomplishment, the scientists genuinely weren’t sure it would even fly in the Martian atmosphere. They thought they had a pretty good understanding of air pressure and currents near the surface, but weren’t positive. If anything, it turns out it was easier to fly in the Martian atmosphere than they anticipated, which bodes well for future exploration and colonization.
The addressees would recognize the background from the Book of Esther.
Eh, I’ll be vindicated. :)
I get it now, hopefully I will feast on the knowledge gained from re-reading this book
The copter may be autonomous, but it relies on Perseverance for it’s uplink. Longer flights would take it out of Wi-Fi range.
What’s the TTSN?
Some recent status update gave a total for flight hours (minutes), but the data is available on the flight records.
Caught up to flight 22:
https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Flight-Log
Up-to-date:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)#List_of_flights
Thanks for that. I get 42:25.6.
It’ll be a long way to an ATP at this date. ;-)
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