Mars Ingenuity helicopter accident investigation reveals likely cause of crash

[@Delta-V-Heavy]

Designed to fly *up to* 5 times; crashed on flight 72. Rest well, Ginny, you little over-achiever; you’ve more than earned it. Godspeed, and thank you.

[@josephwarren3498]

Goodbye little friend. Thank you for the images,

[@zulubob5824]

Poor Ingenuity 😢

[@Darx97]

poor thing, it did its job amazingly tho

[@bobjackson7516]

"Unscheduled, unintended rapid removal of propulsion device causing massive imbalance of rotor" . Sorry to hear little chopper. You did well. Thank you.

[@Leo_Henry]

I miss ingenuity... 🌌

[@Wadethewallaby2001]

This incident will teach us how to safely maneuver on Mars. Remember, it's a learning curve.

[@Wadethewallaby2001]

This investigation will teach us how to safely maneuver on Mars, especially in hard conditions for algorithms, but with the increasing numbers of artificial intelligence back home on earth, we should be able to have artificial intelligence on a new helicopter that would distinguish what the surface looks like better.

[@SimonThomson58]

How did that photograph of the helicopter on Mars get taken? It looks like it’s taken from 30metres in the air?!?

[@JadeMythriil]

could be the perseverance rover taking the photo from a distance?

[@SimonThomson58]

@ it must be, but it looks like it’s taken from overhead!

[@JadeMythriil]

@@SimonThomson58 could be taken from atop a dune.

[@That_Awesome_Guy1]

​@@SimonThomson58Perseverance is going up the side of a crater and is up higher.

[@mattdugan2000]

Wouldn’t they put rotor guards on the thing like they should have put solar panel brushes on the spirit and opportunity rovers? Maybe I’m trippin.

[@BenjySparky]

Damn, I hate that!

[@SusanPearce_H]

Ingenious.

[@ManaBDew]

Still a breakthrough Godspeed sincerely Team earth 🌎 🎉

[@bankerdave888]

Sabotage by those damn Martians! 👽👽👽

[@shellybedore6548]

Wow!

[@sirkronix5274]

No more money for space

[@SusanPearce_H]

I agree. Space is boring. Mars, on the other hand, is not!

[@briannewcombe1045]

the cause of the crash is that it was engineered by a woman. they never cover all the bases. they want to build it, take recognition, and not take the blame for lazy failure

[@mattdugan2000]

Why didn’t they put blade guards on the damn thing? I guess I’m not a woman and we will never know.

[@Delta-V-Heavy]

What are you talking about? Ingenuity vastly exceeded all expectations. Its design requirements were to survive on the surface for 30 days and make at least 3 flights. That was all it had to do to achieve total mission success. In reality, it flew a remarkable 72 times over the course of nearly 3 years. It went so far above and beyond its original specifications, it is frankly astonishing-a testament to the incredible engineers at JPL and NASA. If you’re going to be sexist and claim that women don’t make good engineers, maybe don’t pick one of the most impressively successful NASA projects in recent memory as the focus of your argument.

[@bellaanis7157]

🚁

[@mattdugan2000]

Wouldn’t they put rotor guards on the thing like they should have put solar panel brushes on the spirit and opportunity rovers? Maybe I’m trippin.