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Oh, God, these comments may be the trigger to my mid-life crisis.
I remember being a terminally online teen thinking i would never fall out of “what’s hip” bc i enjoyed being online so much at the time. I have since never once installed or used TikTok and I have no idea what’s happening I am sure
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How erosive is the vacuum of space meant to be?
You mean that place that smells of burnt metal and is full of hard radiation? Surface of Mars is definitely more hospitable.
Guess I'm one of today's 10,000.
I just interned at the NASA office (at Ames) that designed large chunks of and did a lot of flight planning / analysis for Ingenuity. It had some really awesome people behind it and its success inspired a number of new Mars rotorcraft missions (rotorcraft will be an integral part of Mars Sample Return). Flight is going to be a huge part of future solar system exploration efforts and Ingenuity paved the way. o7
> o7 I never came across this emoticon, but with what you wrote, its meaning became clear immediately. It's perfect.
I don’t know about the rest of you but we’re going to pour one out for the little guy.
And high compliments to the team that pulled this off. This was an astounding project.
Wasn't it only supposed to fly just a few time but it blew that number out of the water. Great job NASA engineers!
For some reason, this kind of news always makes me sad. Like emotionally. Probably because of this https://xkcd.com/695/ NASA has done an effective job at connecting with regular people. Goes to show, how even something as small as naming something differently makes a big shift in the mindset.
I've always preferred this alternative rewrite: https://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/spirit_rewrite_unknown_author.png
Damage to the blade tip is apparent in the shadow. But I would try one more flight just to see how it fares in such conditions, if it can be corrected in software etc.
That is just genius. NASA is wasting all this money on engineers when they could just ask HN.
How did the prop tip get damaged like that? Did it crash into something?
They mentioned during the media briefing that the terrain they were flying in were featureless, which is extremely challenging for it to determine where it's at, and thus it's possible that it misidentified some aspect of the terrain and caused this. Unfortunately because communication was lost when it landed, the flight data was lost, so we will never know for sure what happened.