New location for #Perseverance on Sol 1136, RMC 52.0606. If all goes smoothly, in two more similar drives the rover will be entering the field-of-view of #Ingenuity's RTE color camera, and Perseverance's team will have their last and only opportunity to have a picture of the rover captured from the ground of Mars, at least for the foreseeable future.
It could be a good systems check, a reference for future evaluation of camera degradation and something for Ingenuity's fans to hold on to, as it fades into oblivion.
@doug_ellison
Yes, but that doesn't say that transmissions ceased; it only says that Ingenuity's operations team is over.
After that last software update one would expect that the procedures about how to talk to the heli, now a stationary testbed collecting data, were handed over to the mission team, who already had procedures in place to communicate with it (img from the Analyst's Notebook).
If not them, who else could talk to the stationary testbed Ingenuity?
@doug_ellison
This is the part I'm refering to, wrt downlinking a few RTE images possibly showing the rover:
"With the software patch in place, Ingenuity will now wake up daily, activate its flight computers, and test the performance of its solar panel, batteries, and electronic equipment. In addition, the helicopter will take a picture of the surface with its color camera and collect temperature data from sensors placed throughout the rotorcraft."
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