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NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Flies Higher Than Ever on Mars

NASA Ingenuity rotorcraft has surpassed its 1-mile (1.6 km) mark of its total flight distance on Mars.The 10th flight also saw the helicopter reach new heights.
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One picture got me looking. There's this one from Mars.

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Then there's this one from earth.

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Now imaging the image from earth a couple million years from now with wind erosion. Same fucking thing guys. Same place.
 
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After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still flying high

It was only supposed to fly five times. And yet NASA's helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, has completed 12 flights and it isn't ready to retire.
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It was only supposed to fly five times. And yet NASA's helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, has completed 12 flights and it isn't ready to retire.

Given its stunning and unexpected success, the US space agency has extended Ingenuity's mission indefinitely.
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What explains its longevity?

"The environment has been very cooperative so far: the temperatures, the wind, the sun, the dust in the air... It's still very cold, but it could have been a lot worse," said Ravich.

In theory, the helicopter should be able to keep operating for some time. But the approaching Martian winter will be challenging.

NASA engineers, now armed with the data from Ingenuity's flights, are already working on its next-generation successors.
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The Mars Ingenuity Helicopter Is Going Back to Where It All Started

The NASA helicopter will travel to the site of its first flight, a spot known as Wright Brothers Field.
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NASA confirmed yesterday that the Ingenuity helicopter completed its 15th flight on Mars, a 128.8-second jaunt that begins the chopper’s trip back to its original airfield. On the flight just before this latest one, Ingenuity flew at 2,700 rpm, a faster spin rate that gives NASA scientists confidence that the rotorcraft will be able to stay skyborne during colder Martian weather, when the air on the planet gets even thinner.
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I was reading this morning that they've pushed back landing on the moon until at least 2025 because Congress didn't give NASA the money they were supposed to. Too busy funding shit like NAFTA to fuck us all over and giving oil companies subsidies to kill us all with climate change. It's not going to be long before they cut off funding for Mars shit too. Science doens't matter to any of them. Just money.

The sick fucking part of it all is that the reason it's always allowed to go on and on is because they have the attitude of 'I'll be dead by the time it gets that bad' so they don't give a shit. Probably four or five administrations from now they'll finally realize it's all going to come down on their fucking heads on their watch. By then though it'll be too fucking late.
 
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I remember as a kid sitting in a dark classroom watching a film (yes, on an actual film projector) of Dr. Carl Sagan talking about what Mars might be like.

And here I sit watching digital video of a helicopter flying around on the surface of Mars while it's mother ship records it and beams it back to earth.

My God, how far we've come...
 
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