While waiting for #Flight72 scheduled for tosol (it's now 5:45 AM of Sol 1036, in Jezero), here is a quick rendering of the last RTE image captured by #Ingenuity right before it landed flight 70.
The map shows the locations where the 6 RTE images of #Flight70 were captured from.
Processed, undistorted HELI_RTE
Image captured from RMC 70.0001/5
Sol 1009, LMST: 10:15:17
@65dBnoise yes, first the "land now!" on flight 53, then the anomaly during 71 and now this... I wonder how much of that may be due to fatigue(or similar) and how much comes from more demanding flight plans.
@stim3on@65dBnoise
There is also the factor that Ingenuity uses COTS, non-radiation-hardened parts for the comm system, which were not designed to survive for 3 years in the harsh environment of Mars. Sooner or later, something will fail. We can hope it is later and this event is a minor hiccup or blockage issue.
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