Over the past few weeks, the operations team has been at work installing a major software update aboard the helicopter. This update provides Ingenuity two major new capabilities: hazard avoidance when landing and the use of digital elevation maps to help navigate.
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34 flights. For a prototype, this has been one amazing proof of concept.
We’ve gotten a remarkable bang for the buck out of the rovers, their associated hardware, and space probes in general.
That article probably deserved its own thread or as the main post here, but it hadn’t appeared on the news search when I was posting the flight log data.
I veered over to the status updates page before hitting post, and there it was.
For all of those shadow snaps and vids, Ingenuity has proven to be the life and face on Mars everybody is searching for, no question. 😉
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Ingenuity is the inventor of opportunity.