Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Logs 31st Flight

NASA ^ | September 7, 2022

[Ezekiel]

Flight: 31
Sol: 550
Date: Sept. 6, 2022
Horizontal Distance: 97m ~318ft
Max Altitude: 10m ~33ft
Max Groundspeed: 4.75 m/s ~10.6 mph
Duration: 55.6 seconds
Route of Flight: from Airfield U to Airfield V

Note: Dates based on Pacific time zone at the time of Ingenuity's flight.

[Ezekiel]

MRS Helicopter does it again!

♥

[fwdude]

I watched a documentary of them testing it in the lab. It was too cool! And LOUD!

[TChad]

Ginny rocks on!

Is there video?

[Ezekiel]

Is there video?

I've only seen this reported on the flight log so far, but if there is video, you can bet a shadow is involved. ;)

Ginny's is the *true* face on Mars!

♫ She hails from Pasadena! ♪

[Flick Lives]

I watched a documentary of them testing it in the lab. It was too cool! And LOUD!

—

I remember listening to a recording of the sound of the helicopter which was picked up by a microphone on the rover. The thing sounds a lot like a leaf blower.

[A strike]

Everyone knows that helicopters are unnatural ( :

[Revel]

Of course there is video. But we are not allowed to see it.

[TChad]

Everyone knows that helicopters are unnatural ( :.

But do they eat their young?

[Dundee]

An old Commodore pilot friend of mine defined a helicopter as a swirling mass of metal fatigue surrounding an oil leak.

[A strike]

Yes, exactly !

But gyrocopters are the real deal ! I saw it in a movie.

[zeugma]

An old Commodore pilot friend of mine defined a helicopter as a swirling mass of metal fatigue surrounding an oil leak.

Now that's funny. Kinda makes me think they are somewhat distantly related to Harley Davidsons.

[Organic Panic]

We always said, “10,000 parts rotating around an oil leak.”