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Old 02-18-2021, 3:57pm   #1
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Just watched landing 😎
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We just put a freaking car on Mars with a heli in the trunk
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OK, they said it landed correctly, SO, part of the same .com stream is the videos......and whatever follows.....SO??

how we know it landed right....and no instant follow up vids??? BS......
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OK, they said it landed correctly, SO, part of the same .com stream is the videos......and whatever follows.....SO??

how we know it landed right....and no instant follow up vids??? BS......
If you watched the live stream, they had a few pics come back pretty quickly. Video is a LOT of effing data to send that many million miles.
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As a retired programmer, I have great respect for them pulling of the landing. I enjoyed watching it. I wish they would have had the budget for cameras on an orbiter.
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If you watched the live stream, they had a few pics come back pretty quickly. Video is a LOT of effing data to send that many million miles.
That is why it was all filmed in a back lot in Houston.
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That is why it was all filmed in a back lot in Houston.
JPL is in Cali. No need to go to Houston
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We can still do a few things right.
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hopefully sometime in March...


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The team behind Ingenuity won’t get to test out the helicopter until at least a month after the pair have landed on Mars.

Shortly after their landing, the shield covering will drop and Ingenuity will separate from its robotic companion. After it detaches itself from the rover, the team on the ground has to ensure that Ingenuity passes a few initial milestones before they launch its first test flight. Ingenuity is powered through solar panels that charge up its lithium-ion batteries for one 90-second flight per Martian day.

Once the helicopter is able to charge itself through its solar panel, and communicate with the team through the Mars Helicopter Base Station on the rover, then they can begin testing the helicopter's flight abilities. But that likely won't happen until at least a month after landing on Mars.

Over the course of 30 Martian sols (a sol, the equivalent of a day, on Mars is about 40 minutes longer than a day on Earth), a team of NASA engineers on the ground will test out Ingenuity's ability to fly. But they're going to take things slow.

"We don’t have hard specific dates right now because the Perseverance and Ingenuity teams need time to check their robots and we cannot totally predict how long that will take," Jia-Rui Cook, supervisor of news events and projects at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tells Inverse.

For its first flight, the helicopter will take off a few feet off the ground and hover in the air for around 20 to 30 seconds. Although brief, those first seconds of flight will be a major milestone in space exploration. Subsequent flights will attempt further distances and higher altitudes than the one before it. The helicopter could fly for up to 90 seconds, to distances of almost 980 feet at a time and about 10 to 15 feet above the ground.

Once it does take off, NASA engineers will have not only proven that they can fly an aircraft on another planet, one that has a vastly different atmosphere than Earth, but will then get to work deploying more helicopters to Mars and perhaps other worlds — including a plan to send a drone to Saturn’s moon Titan.
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That is why it was all filmed in a back lot in Houston.

That's bullshit. We don't have electricity here, so we couldn't have faked anything!
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Looks like @UniqueDoug finally found a way to get away from the tire-kickers.
I am nominating this for VB chop of the year!
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