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Dissecting #Ingenuity's accident.

This animation shows one of the rotor blades before and after the #MarsHelicopter's 72nd landing. The fact that the image with the broken blade had to shrink and change perspective so much to match the other one is an indication of the RTE camera being much closer to the ground after landing 72.

Superimposed, transformed RTE images from #Flight69 and #Flight72.

Originals:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01008/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_1008_0756416571_585ECM_N0690001HELI00000_000085J01.png
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01040/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_1040_0759257443_233ECM_N0720001HELI00000_000085J01.png

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Footprints on the regolith from both #Flight68 and #Flight69 can be seen in this image that was just downlinked. It appears #Ingenuity's signal at #Perseverance's new location at RMC 49.2818 is much stronger.

Note: the electronics are still functional, sending images to the rover.

Processed, undistorted HELI_RTE
Image captured from RMC 69.0001/0
Sol 1008, LMST: 10:10:57

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01008/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_1008_0756416571_585ECM_N0690001HELI00000_000085J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

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#Ingenuity has flown #Flight69 as planned.

Evidently, during the one week delay to takeoff, #Flight68 was redesigned to be the same with flight 69, with a total length of around 704m (352m NE and back) instead of 828m that had been previously announced (which would be a new distance record if it happened), as seen in the official #MMGIS map.

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65dBnoise, (edited ) to space
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#Ingenuity is ready for another flight test with #Flight69, today, Dec 19, 2023. Will go out 351m and then turn back, a total of 702m of flight distance.

Announcement: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/501/flight-69-preview-by-the-numbers/

Map showing what to expect:

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