Mars Helicopter Ingenuity - Flight 40 Lands at Airfield Beta!

NASA ^ | January 20, 2023

[Ezekiel]

Flight Log

Flight 40
Sol 681
Date Jan. 19, 2023
Horizontal Distance 178 m ~584 ft
Max. Altitude 10 m ~33 ft
Max. Groundspeed 3.20 m/s ~7.2 mph
Duration 91.6 seconds
Route of Flight Airfield Z - Airfield Beta

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Flights

40
(as of 1/19/23)

Distance Flown
8,008 meters
(~26,274 ft)

Highest Altitude
14 meters
(~46 ft)

Fastest Ground Speed
5.50 m/s
(12.3 mph)

Flight Time
~65.9 minutes
(3,951 seconds)

[DesertRhino]

The amazing part is not Mars. It’s ANY helicopter flying 40 flights over two years with no maintenance, no annual inspections, etc... All I can conclude is that the FAA has no Martian jurisdiction.

[Ezekiel]

Allegories in analog time:

The number 40 has great significance throughout the Torah and the Talmud. The number 40 represents transition or change; the concept of renewal; a new beginning. The number 40 has the power to lift a spiritual state.

https://aish.com/the-number-40/

Ingenuity was born on the surface of Mars on Sol 43 of Perseverance's journey. Here on Earth, Saturday April 3, 2021, the Eve of Easter. On Mars, no one could steal the body. 😉

Thus Flight 40 marked Ginny's 638th Sol on the planet. 681 - 43 = 638.

638 =

The Way of the Patriarchs (Derech HaAvot, דרך האבות, aka Rt 60, "GO")
Abraham + Isaac + Jacob (248 + 208 + 182), אברהם יצחק יעקב, the Patriarchs for whom the route is named
"Judea and Samaria", יהודה ושומרון, the name of the place of the route.

beta:
4. (computing, video games, uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
6. (climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.

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Rock climbing terminology
The term "beta" refers to advice on how to successfully complete a particular climbing route, boulder problem, or crux sequence.

The number 40 represents transition or change; the concept of renewal; a new beginning. The number 40 has the power to lift a spiritual state.

Bravo!

California Girls - the cutest girls in the world!

[Ezekiel]

The amazing part is not Mars. It’s ANY helicopter flying 40 flights over two years with no maintenance, no annual inspections, etc... All I can conclude is that the FAA has no Martian jurisdiction.

Her name is her mission! Spinning Big...

Ingenuity -- the life on Mars everyone's been looking for all of this time. Location: Jezero ("Lake") Crater.

Ingenuity is a word hydrophilic with Yankee.

Yankee ingenuity characterizes an attitude of make-do with materials on hand. It is inventive improvisation, adaptation and overcoming of shortages of materials.

Which reminds me (don't mind me -- I'm kind of excited that the flight went on the date I suspected it would)...

Percy's "Sol 681" [סול = 96, sol] as the two are interlinked:
96 + 681 = 777

As you can see from the logo posted up-thread, there's truly somebody for everyone. It plainly reveals that even Mars (Mars!) got his very own MRS to love. (*sniff*)

Now that couldn't have happened anywhere on planet Earth.

(Yesterday was National Popcorn Day.)

[tennmountainman]

Amazing feat of engineering.

[Keflavik76]

Ingenuity was born on the surface of Mars on Sol 43 of Perseverance's journey. Here on Earth, Saturday April 3, 2021, the Eve of Easter. On Mars, no one could steal the body. 😉

I see what you did there.

[Chode]

LOL, ya got me...

[Ezekiel]

Fun:

Daily Thought

What Lies Inside
When the world was made, the sages say, the spirit of Moshiach was the wind hovering over all that would be.

Within each thing we behold, the destiny of all things dwells, like the embryo waiting to break out of its egg.

In the rhythm of a dandelion shivering in the breeze, in the eyes of the children we raise, in the goals we make in life, in the machines we use and the art we create, in the air we breathe and the blood rushing through our veins.

Within each thing, a whole new world awaits us to tap upon its shell.

Thursday, January 19, 2023
26 Tevet, 5783

Time turns, just like what The Byrds sang yesterday. A time for everything: DAVID CROSBY, DEAD AT 81

What Lies Inside:

Ingenuity... In-Jew-(k)new-ID, because

It's the INTEL inside (pINTELe Yid)

~ EZ

Mem is the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Numerical value: 40
Sound: "M"
Meaning: 1. Water 2. Mashiach

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137085/jewish/Mem.htm

מ

[Ezekiel]

If that weren't analogous enough (they had to wait til Easter to find out if she made it through the cold night all alone, still alive), Ginny's first flight occurred on April 19th, Patriot's Day.

How'd she manage to do it?

The news *was* all about the Revolution.

Best "proof of concept" evah.

[DesertRhino]

LOL...