Posted on 02/10/2024 5:00:43 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: On January 18, 2024, during its 72nd flight in the thin Martian atmosphere, autonomous Mars Helicopter Ingenuity rose to an altitude of 12 meters (40 feet) and hovered for 4.5 seconds above the Red Planet. Ingenuity's 72nd landing was a rough one though. During descent it lost contact with the Perseverance rover about 1 meter above the Martian surface. Ingenuity was able to transmit this image after contact was re-established, showing the shadow of one of its rotor blades likely damaged during landing. And so, after wildly exceeding expectations during over 1,000 days of exploring Mars, the history-making Ingenuity has ended its flight operations. Nicknamed Ginny, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. Before launch, a small piece of material from the lower-left wing of the Wright Brothers Flyer 1, the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on planet Earth, was fixed to the underside of Ingenuity's solar panel.
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Ginny, ya done good!
Interesting. Blades always fail on the leading edge surface. They never fail on the outer end inward. This looks like material deterioration (composition). The outer ends of the blades were supersonic.
Aw, that will buff right out....
Does it have outward or upward facing cameras? Does it have any measuring instruments? Can it be turned into a remote monitoring station?
Yeah I know... my thoughts are a PITA just on general principle, but she's not done yet!
It's like how the logo shows Ginny as a lantern, replacing the Scarlet A of the red worm font. Ingenious. The narrative is above and beyond anything NASA and JPL are up to. Same for Neil's famous first words on the Moon, the first man to achieve powered, controlled steps on another world, the world that symbolizes the Kingdom of David.
Like Gen 1:2, of new years, new beginnings:
Every time one finds the number forty in Torah, its inner meaning is the ascent from one level to the next higher one. We get a new mission at forty. But the attainment of a higher level can come only after first reaching and fulfilling all aspects of the previous level, and then making an emptiness in the middle to allow for the emergence of something entirely new.>>>
Numbers themselves are assigned symbolic significance by our tradition. To cite one example: the number forty has come to symbolize beginnings and new beginnings. Thus, creation is renewed after forty days of flooding. The covenant with the Jewish people, our beginning as a nation, is granted after Moses' sojourn of forty days on Mount Sinai. Following the rebellion of the people as a result of the report of the spies, the Jewish people are condemned to forty years of wandering in the wilderness before a new beginning can be contemplated. The embryo is considered viable forty days after conception. Gestation takes forty weeks.[24]
Every time one finds the number forty in Torah, its inner meaning is the ascent from one level to the next higher one.
The letter Mem is the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. The letter Mem is equivalent to forty (40).
The Mem represents the age or time of completion.[25]
Just lotta luv the little gal.
Little Helo (ם), Big World
As for not dreaming about a golden palm tree or an elephant going through the eye of a needle (Berakhot 55b)...
people aren't able to dream about what they can't even imagine as possible in the first place. Then there were the brothers who were Wright:
Before launch, a small piece of material from the lower-left wing of the Wright Brothers Flyer 1, the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on planet Earth, was fixed to the underside of Ingenuity's solar panel.
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Aliens...
Bird strike?
A manned mission will need to bring duct tape to fix this.
Lol.
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