NASA’s rovers have been kicking ass for the last few decades. Truly a testament to how great their engineering teams are
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Kitten_Mittens@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Considering it was just meant to be a proof of concept and only fly once or twice I would say that 71 flights, a max altitude of 78 ft(24 m), and 10.6 miles or 17 kilometers of travel, not to mention all of the footage from its on board cameras, makes Ingenuity was an astounding success.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
modifier@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Definitely exceeded my expectations.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think it exceeded everyone’s expectations. I know I’m pretty astounded. I didn’t realize it had been three years!
dan1101@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I was amazed it could fly at all in the thin atmosphere of Mars.
Toine@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I believe they took this into account when they designed the thing.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Especially considering the use of off-the-shelf Snapdragon 801.
There’s some nice discussion about Ingenuity here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26177619
httpjames@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Reboot mid flight is a funny solution
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 5 months ago
Imagine telling an airline pilot to just reboot the whole plane if something goes wrong.
Rhaedas@kbin.social 5 months ago
During a flight is a bit much, but some aircraft have a reboot between flights as a standard procedure to fix glitches that would happen if the plane was left on for the entire time.