So this question arises: if the plan for #Flight53 was to scout and cover 203m of ground, why did it do a straight line flight of only 142m? Even if this is a preliminary localization, still the flight seems rather abnormal.
During the coming solar conjunction of Mars, and the moratorium in communications, #Ingenuity will use its color camera to study the movement of sand, which poses an ever-present challenge to Mars missions.
It seems strange to me that there aren't any other scuffs in the regolith made by the rotors when they supposedly hit the ground.
Here is a theory:
• The blades disintegrated in mid-air.
• The scuffs we see were not made by the rotors but by the helicopter's feet; it dropped fast, bounced, and then landed at its final location.
• The disintegrated blades spread to pieces so they are not seen around the incident, except for one which flew south, almost intact.
Hope Mars Mission
Time: 2023-05-23 00:33
Orbit 377
Filters: f635+f546+f437, f320 used to slightly enhance the orographic cloud over Ascraeus Mons
Processed from: https://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae
How does "The first robotic servicing mission on the surface of Mars" sound to y'all?
Well, if you're #NASA#JPL, this awesome headline could be yours for the low cost of a few nitrogen puffs!
This thread is just me fantasizing how Perseverance could potentially use its gDRT to clean the dusty solar panel and camera lens on Ingenuity and make history with this extraordinary servicing operation! 🧵
From time to time #Perseverance uses its fixed down looking camera, or EDL_RDCAM, to record movies of, well, the ground 🥴 , probably while the ground radar RIFMAX does its thing. And let's not forget that it's the same camera that captured those epic images during the rover's descent to the Martian ground.
Debayered, processed EDL_RDCAM
Image captured from RMC 51.0030
Sol 1094, LMST: 12:55:27
That sounds interesting but is quite risky, as the terrain is difficult and the rover would have to drive up into the Neretva riverbed, and across the regolith megaripple field to get a good visual of the heli, and that's assuming the #MarsHelicopter is still on the top of one of those megaripples.
The maps show visibility and terrain. Contours are 1m.
Two days ago the Perseverance rover captured these pictures of the Mastcam-Z calibration target with her arm-mounted WATSON camera.
I love these images that show the rover hardware, perhaps it's time for another full selfie? 📸
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / Simeon Schmauß
Colourised animation processing data from: https://psa.esa.int
ESA Mars Express HRSC
Orbit: 14388
2015-05-05 T16:01:18 > T16:01:35.424Z
IDs: 5 Frames
HE388_0003_SR3 >>>> HE388_0007_SR3
1 frame added to make it smoother
Credits:
Raw Data:
ESA/DLR/G.Neukum-FUBerlin
Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY
On Sol 998, #Perseverance moved farther southwest about 30m, to RMC 47.3056, apparently back toward Jurabi Point.
The map shows its new estimated location along with the (guessed) path it took and a new prediction for its next drive (green dashed line), just for fans.
This localization is based on metadata from just one image.
EDIT: The path for last drive changed to 'estimate' and is being updated as more metadata become available.
Here is a fresh animation of images captured by #Ingenuity from 06:06 to 09:17 AM tosol, Sol 1043, showing clearly that at least two of the 4 rotor blades were damaged during #Flight72.
14 processed HELI_NAV images
captured from RMC 72.0001/54
Sol 1043, LMST: 06:06 to 09:17
Another sol, another drive for #Perseverance. The rover is approaching the northern edge of the rocky Margin Unit, getting closer to where #Ingenuity is located after its eventful #Flight72, but it still has no line-of-sight to the #MarsHelicopter. It may be in a better position for a first look in a sol or two, as seen in the visibility plot below.
#Perseverance captured a movie of the faulty SHERLOC_ACI cover, presumably while trying to move it. The portion of that movie that has been downlinked so far, seen below, shows no perceptible movement, other than that of the shadow. The real time duration of this movie is 16 minutes.
219 frames of MCZ_LEFT, FL: 34mm
looking NNW (332°) from RMC 50.0524
Sol 1051, LMST: 13:31:59