Tragic Final Flight Of NASA's Martian Helicopter - Stranded in Neretva Vallis
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- čas přidán 28. 01. 2024
- After an emergency landing, a test flight and a lost of communications we were sad to hear that Ingenuity's flying days are over and it will end its mission parked on sand dunes in an ancient riverbed.
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people can say what they want about Ingenuity but i stand by my stance that despite the damage its still the best helicoper on the planet.
@@nonbigbrain9662that's the joke...
@@nonbigbrain9662 congrats on understanding the joke 🎉
Wait, there was a joke?
Also, controversially, the worst helicopter on the planet
Its this the planet the is populated by robots?
"On flight number 71 ... of 5" 😂 nice how he put it in the right context
We've just learned some important materials science regarding expected longetivity.
that sounds fun what was it? @@Yaivenov
Underpromise and overdeliver beats the inverse every time.
@@ExtraRaven_ Expected longetivity of carbon fiber when used as wings in a thin and extremely frigid co2 atmosphere.
Did they not test flying in -80C? @@Yaivenov
We get nostalgic about the triumphant period of the Apollo era, and while Ingenuity wasn‘t quite as monumental as that, it was delirious success. A first-ever at a new method of exploration, overfulfilling its mission by a metric gazillion, and all kinds of practical utility from what was supposed to have been a test vehicle. The little guy was a champ.
The sheer amount of science we got from Ingenuity is mind-blowing. For something which we didn't know exactly how (if at all) would work, now we will be able to build an entirely new generation of flying machines for Mars.
First propeller flight on another planet. That's the stuff of SciFi i grew up with. To see it happen in my life time... it was as momentous and grand as the landings for me. It's certainly paved the way. If they make airplanes next... i'm gonna lose it. :)) They should call it the wright flight. :))
I think there is a flight planned for Titan, in many years, but it looks like a typical four prop drone!@@aserta
All of the mars rovers have been superstars, endurance wise.
Alas, Ingenuity was as popular at NASA overall as genital herpes. They wanted to kill it since it was first thought of.
As best that I can ascertain from the arguments, it largely came down to personal dislike of diverting funds to support a whirlygig.
I love the phrasing: "On flight number 71 of 5." That alone shows how much this machine outperformed what NASA would have considered a success!
Or they were planning/hoping for 50-100 but were announcing 5 in case of premature failure...
@@ohger1 And your source for that information is…?
@@youdonegoofed Trust me bro
@@ohger1I dont think any of these systems is rated that high, even civilian quad-copters that just have to deal with earth rarely survive 100 flights if you actually kept track
@@ohger1 You're thinking of SpaceX bro ;D
71/5 is not a bad record. RIP, Inginuity. Thanks for the data.
In india we have a hindi muhavra that says 'Thotha Chana Baje Ghana'. which teach us to value practical practices over new experimentation or theorizing or hypothesizing. We Indians are taught to be practical and that is the reason so many ceo of large american companys like google, microsoft, ibm, etc are from india. this craft would last longer if less experimental design and more practical method was used.
And there are how many Indian aircraft operating on other planets?
@@timsmith658we don’t need aircraft if we want we can turn a lander into a flying helicopter that’s what India did to Chandrayaan 3 s lander 😂
@@timsmith658next we might do that to a mars lander to😂
Being proud of one's country is fine and all but having too much of it is pretty much obnoxious at this point.
I imagine there is now a martian with bandaged hand, cursing wildly...
shouting "get off my land"
more like "get off my riverbank" Shrek style
Poor Marvin! 😎
"there was supposed to be a kaboom..."
. . .💭: ᴼᵁᶜᴴ ... ᴴᵁᴿᵀˢ ᴸᴵᴷᴱ ᴬ ᵂᴵᵀᶜᴴ ...
👽
Martians finally managed to throw a rock and hit it. Damn neighbours peeking all the time with their drone.
A wee bit of chest-thumping: "Well done, Ingenuity - not ONCE did you land upside down!"...
Metric dont work on the moon. Thats what caused that issue
It wasn't Japanese.
@@michaelreid2329 or from Australia
@@michaelreid2329 but it may have been built by the lowest bidder, so there's that...
@@ralphm6901 Except it wasn't, so that joke falls completely flat.
Its so sad to see Ingenuity finally go, it was the first to achieve powered flight on Mars and was so incredibly good at it.
As indian I feel the helicopter idea is too impractical. ISRO recently sent a rover to the moon and made the mission a success by using well tested simple technologies. Experimental technology oftens fails. Us indian use reliable technology in rail, car, etc but never experimental. ISRO will also be sending a rover to the mar and become third nation in the entire world to acheive it.
@@rajeshgajwelly9035 True, but as an indian(because you brought it up), some of your kinsman empty their bowels in the streets because your "reliable technology" hasn't reached seemingly everyone in India.
You might want to drop that nationalistic chest thumping "pride" until you achieve public plumbing for everyone in India.
@@rajeshgajwelly9035 And yet NASA flew a drone on mars before ISRO even sent a probe. Not sure on what ground you're critiquing considering that Ingenuity exceeded its mission lifetime many times over.
@@rajeshgajwelly9035 where do you think well tested simple technologies came from? They came from experimental technologies refined through the years. We all gotta start somewhere. 71 flights is a crazy number already, i would say as an experimental tech it performed so well
@@rajeshgajwelly9035wow why are you guys in such a hurry to talk trash on others? You just got your feet wet when it comes to space. Let me know when you land a human on another celestial body.
April 2002? Wow Ingenuity has really been there for a long time! 6:23
Scott is allowed to make a mistake once in a while, as long as he doesn't do it as often as Boeing. 😂
@@henkvandenbergh1301 yep, and as long as he corrects them in a pinned comment or subtitle. While such is missing (by now), viewers are allowed to point out such mistakes.
My guess is that when the copter landed it had some sideways momentum and the landing feet dug in and the copter tilted to the side. That allowed the blades to hit the sand. because the rotors spin in opposing directions the force cancelled a bit and threw the copter back upright rather than cartwheeling off and completely destroying the rotors
That said, the copter ended up in really good shape considering
Hopefully the recorded IMU data can be used to confirm what happened.
Blade collision after lower blade skipped off the dirt, Even stiff carbon flexes at those speeds. Boeing?
Reminder that those blades spun at several thousand RPMS
Yes, and that's almost as much as a room spins, after too much to drink!! LOL ;D@@Valery0p5
Ok tech geek. It fell. Then churned. Simple. Go Occam.
Us RC Plane people always say our planes have a built in expiration date . Sooner or later, things go wrong and a crash is inevitable. The same was expected for this drone. It actually went way beyond its expected expiration date. If anything, they should be proud of what this drone accomplished. It would be nice to see other drones sent to Mars in the future.
I think everything mechanical has an expiration date
@@Mike_DubayouI think everything non mechanical even more so.
Yeah, but frequently, lose the prop and you just pop a new one on.
Alas, the mileage fees for a service call is a wee bit high. :/
Perfect R/C pilots have boring hangers.
Sure. Absolutely equate your RC with Ingenuity. Seriously?
In my spare time as a hobby I build and fly drones, and FPV quadcopters, sometimes manually and sometimes with GPS and letting them do their autonomous thing. The fact that NASA was able to fly a drone land it, then recharge it and fly it again so many times in a row is completely utterly insane and amazing on a level I can't even properly explain. Everything about a drone is constantly trying to break and destroy itself and implode in some new and interesting way. If I had a billion dollars I could probably land a human on the moon, with that same billion dollars there's no way in hell I could get an autonomous copter to fly 10 times in a row without crashing. 😅
And remember, there is no GPS on mars, so the tiny copter did it all on its own
It's not rocket science ffs. 😅😅
Well, the FPV does not need to fly ten times, it is enough for him to fly once in one direction, that's what they are and the FPV
I share this sentiment as fellow drone nerd and fellow FPV pilot.
I'm still amazed that they were able to make it work with a SOLAR PANEL above the blades.
704m traverse is mindblowing!
Ingenuity will forever be the legendary first space drone that paved the way for all those that will follow... extremely excited for Dragonfly!
I cried for half an hour. Rest in peace little fella!
I worked on the snapdragon 801 chip used in the ingenuity as part of my first job in Qualcomm back in 2012 (testing the PLLs). It’s amazing that the technology was used to send a helicopter to a different planet and performed for 3 years ! Quite sad to see it go but amazed at the feats of engineering that humans have done to get here 🙏🏽👍🏾
is it the same sd 801 on oneplus one?
Tbh the sd801 is terrible it gets very hot and not much power but compared to other space hardware then true it is quite good
Its amazing to me that any consumer grade semiconductors can withstand the radiation of deep space and Mars since I dont think its feasible to carry much shielding mass/material.
@@lifeai1889 that’s a good thing on mars heat was able to keep its electronics and batteries from freezing over
Is it used in other hardware applications?
Man.. this little guy has been following perseverance for like what feels like forever...
more like perseverance has been following it.
Percy lost his little friend 😭
@@hvip4 , I expect to see Percy put Ingenuity on it's "back" and carry him wherever he goes!
@@zenithperigee7442 that would be cute
@@bigshipsit would be cute and also true
Flight 72 of *FIVE*
Good job, NASA and JPL. You once again gave us 10x the science we paid for. Thank you.
The top down views of Mars surface really gives perspective to the landscape and the rugged beauty of the terrain . A fantastic achievement.
I've just finished building the Lego Perseverance model, which has the Ingenuity helicopter in the kit...might have to buy a set of blades, and damage them....for authenticity
if only ingenuity could order spare blades..
@@sliceofbread2611Gotta make sure you select Prime 2 day shipping or else it takes too long.
The same here, building Perseverance the week the little copter ended its magnificent show. It is sitting under a spotlight in my living room, a spotlight it to well deserves.
@@NBSV12 day?! It's next or sometimes same day in the UK 😉
@@georgeprout42 That's just if there's a hub nearby and they can basically send it from there. There probably isn't a hub that close to Mars so they'd have to ship it. Which bumps it to the 2 day option.
I find myself deeply saddened by the realization that I probably won't live to see someone pick up Ingenuity and put it on the pedestal is deserves.
Perhaps the Smithsonian will open a branch museum on Mars someday. That would seem appropriate.
Would be a nice dream or maybe the "Martians" will do that in about 50 years!@@john_in_phoenix
It will be in a "home-grown" museum there, in the future!@@john_in_phoenix
@@john_in_phoenix a Martian museum built around Viking 1.
You can't deny that they got their moneys worth out of the little guy. Phenomenal achievement by the team. I'm really looking forward to what the next iteration of Helicopter can achieve building on the experience they have now. Really, it's a very exciting prospect.
A round of applause for the little chopper that could, did, and then hit everything expected of it out of the park. Excellent work little dude. easily some of the best photos that have ever made it back to earth from the red planet. quite a legacy. I think Ingenuity, Perseverance and Curiosity will end up having quite a few roman numerals after their names. And Im all for that, thats some key tenants of science right there.
I have a similar level of affection for it as the old farm truck, did its rated level of civilian service, but somehow ticked the odometer around twice whilst being thrashed and brutalised around the paddocks, with no cause of concern or care for it, but she just kept doing her thing. It wasnt made by Toyota, was it?
Nonetheless, the designers obviously did an amazing job.
Norwegian designers. We're very proud of this contribution to the space endeavour.
Absolutely. Considering that it was only supposed to fly 3 times
@@ze_rubenator sry ingenuity was designed by Indians working at nasa
I didn't know that. You have every right to be proud ! @@ze_rubenator
Hey @SpaceX if you want a mission and a half for #SpaceShip the #Ingenuity needs a ride home I’m sure any museum would gladly take her. 🚀
71….. of 5. Remarkable. Congrats to everyone involved
The mere fact that Ingenuity flew at all, is stunning and brilliant. That is flew so many times, and way beyond formal expectations, even more so. Hats off to all involved.
I have to say, Ingenuity was so wildly successful that I started to just take for granted that it would always work. I’ll certainly miss the little interplanetary drone that could. It’s wild to realize that, in all likelihood, some distant-future generation of kids will probably see Ingenuity in a museum.
if what i’ve heard of nasa’s three step poop scoop and shoot plan is true, i can somewhat see it happening in our lifetime
You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.
My heart is heavy too.
Not really tragic. The mars helicopter wasn't even supposed to last this long. It was only supposed to last 30 days and 3 flights. It lasted for almost 3 years and 72 flights. Now that's impressive. They've done so many experiments and pushing it to its limits with this little guy it will determine the build and functionality of next gen helicopters like the one planned for Titan. The Dragonfly.
Yeah, it was going to end one way or another.
it's still sad because well it won't fly anymore but it exceeded expectations by ALOT
It even survived the Martian winter! 👏
5 flights
No way 2021 was that long ago, goddang
Goodbye ingenuity. You did well over the last few years😢
No. Not goodbye, it's more like, "see you later, alligator", ...little guy!! :D
For a touch of wow factor, that helicopter was flying at an atmospheric pressure equivalent of 98000 - 115000 feet of earth air pressure. So, it buzzed around mars at the same equivalent pressure and atmospheric density that it took the SR-71 flying supersonic speeds to fly at.
The gravity on Mars is only 38% of that on earth. This, and a very a low mass of the helicopter is what makes flying on Mars possible.
What a little trooper! Ingenuity has worked so hard it deserves a rest.
Yes, some folks say RIP, but I take that to mean "Remain In Place", since we'll be seeing you again, someday soon!! :)
It was an amazing little helicopter! Never thought I would have seen something like it in my lifetime!
Well done NASA and Ingenuity!
I hope the rover gets some closeup photos of Ingenuity.
There’s a good chance…
Unfortunately that's probably not going to happen because of were ingenuity landed. I don't think they would risk driving Perseverance into sand dunes just to get a picture
@@gelgamath_9903 I realized that. But I can hope.
"...because you can't fly on Mars if the rotorblades are not perfectly balanced - as all things should be."
I love how Scott can seamlessly integrate cultural references in any given sentence. 😁🤟
Could you elaborate for us with 3½ braincells and therefore do not get the reference?
I think it is a reference to thanos in Avengers Infinity War@@Astronetics
@@zaphurnusprime3695 Eloborate to me how the Thanos thing worked out for that universe?
@@zaphurnusprime3695 Ahhhh okay thank you. I haven't kept up on the whole Avengers movies, unfortunately. Man, I'm getting old.
@@Astronetics CZcams Commenters with 3½ braincells: perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
I met Loay Elbasyouni, the lead electronical designer of Ingenuity last week. He explained how it's possible that we see more projects with automotive and smartphone electronics since Ingenuity not only proved flight but also showed how to mitigate radiation and temperature limitations on exploration vehicles. Future will show much better spacecraft for sure.
Maybe Scott can deep dive on Ingenuity electronics and radiation mitigation with him, we are curious how.
"It's dead, Jim" 😂 RIP Ingenuity
"It's dead Jim, get a rope and we'll tow it".😏
Dammit, your a doctor not a mechanic.
LOL. Correction, a "country doctor"!! And there should be a lot of "country" to explore on Mars! ;D@@DrDeuteron
“Remember…”
flight 72 of 5 really puts things into perspective!
Scott, you nailed it: Comparing aeronautical instability with a wobbling washing machine on a trampoline is real ingenuity :D
Great video for a great technical and scientific achievement. Well done and all my respect for all the people on earth that made this little machine possible. Hopefully, there's more to come!
And so weirdly specific.
Scotty, WTF kinda crazy house do you live in. I've had a wobbling (unbalanced) washing machine, a time or two, but I usually keep it off of my trampoline, which is outside, and not there in the laundry room!! LOL ;D
Scott Manley demonstrating what journalists should be doing.
Go read Eric Berger's article over on Ars Technica.
If you want highly detailed information from journalists you need to go to the ones (such as Eric) who specialise in a particular area, NOT the ones who cover everything under the sun and know very little about one specific subject.
@@grndkntrl Thanks for the tip on Eric. Will read.
It's not just detail, and it's not just specialization. I had read about this from at least four other news sources. None of them showed the shadows of the broken propeller blades. They should have.
@@BobStein Try not reading Fox News and Breitbart next time.
@@grndkntrl Agreed. General-purpose journalism has its value, providing high-level overview of broad topics - but if you want expertise in a topic, you need to look to people who specialise in that area.
@@BobStein Why would other news sources mention it? If they're not specialising in space topics, it's unlikely that they even knew there was a helicopter on Mars unless they remembered it from previous coverage after the first flight. And it's not their job to go into technical details... they're generalists, giving a 30 second overview of everything, not a 15m deep-dive.
Great in-depth information as usual. When you showed the landing leg had skid marks it made me think of the rotor head vibrating and might the skid marks have been caused by the whole thing vibrating while spinning down the rotors? Seen similar behaviour with RC helicopters with damaged rotor blades.
Please stop comparing Ingenuity to your RCs. There is no comparison unless you factor in autonomous control over 349.01 million Kms.
@@tjmcguire9417 Your missing the point . It’s not about how it’s controlled that compares but the physics involved in turning high rpm spinning rotors without proper balance.
everybody crashes their first few drones
Fun fact- Only Connect is a UK quiz where oppposing teams choose questions to answer. In the first few series these were identified by Greek letters. A few years ago, in the opening epdisode of a new series, Victorian Coren Mitchell, the host, said that they had had complaints that using greek letters was too elitist. She said, and I paraphrase here, 'So we've listened and changed'. They now use Egyptian hieroglyphs.
REALLY Excited for the next set (I assume they will send 2 next time) or helicopters they send with all the extra data they were able to get from this one!
Always some great angles and context observations from Scott Manley 👍
So sad now that Perseverance now has to continue on its journey across mars alone.
Thanks for this huge chunk of information. Not only the recent incident is covered the "scott manley way" but we all got a summary of the flight logs. Awesome !
Alas poor Little Chopper has flown its last, flight 71 of 5. A long way beyond its design life, and superb service 🙂
You got that right! We are invested in The Little Helicopter That Could.
That was the first sound I ever heard from Mars; I don't know if you remember the video, but that sound, recorded from another planet and transmitted home, brought me to tears, and it's all because of Ingenuity.
I never knew that about the electronic shutter. Thanks for the very clear explanation of the translucent rotor effect.
Great report, Scott. You do tell a great story with energy and pathos.
I rememver when perseverence first landed, and ingenuity was just a side experiment that might last a month. And then a few months later, suddenly it was just normal that there was a drone copter puttering around on mars. Quite the achievement, thw team behind it should be very proud.
As a camera engineer I’m confident the shading of the rotor blades is not caused by the PLS (Parasitic Light Signal) of the shutter. This would mean you will see a gradient over the image as the global shutter stops exposure over the entire frame at once but reads it row for row. Probably it’s just different light diffusion due to the hight or maybe transparency of the rotor blades in IR? As I assume the monochrome camera had no IR block filter. It could very well be a combination as PLS can depend on wavelength, especially BSI sensors.
Counter point - there *is* a gradient across the part of the image being affected - the shadows of the rotor blades. It makes sense that the part that moved is the only part showing evidence of parasitic light signal since the signal in the static parts of the image is going to be dominated by the primary signal.
I don't know how long they expected Ingenuity to survive or how many flights but it certainly proved that flight is possible even with atmospheres as tenuous as Mars and I think that was the main program goal.
It was designed to last for five flights, and even that was considered a pipe dream. which just goes to show how much the nerds can accomplish with proper motivation
@@theangryotaku3361 My belief is that the engineers and scientists at NASA believed that it COULD do much more than 5 flights, but only promised 5 because of the level of scrutiny that they are constantly under. Under promise, over deliver
@@Acklon When you plan for (e.g.) a one-year mission and you're required to have 99.999% certainty of completing that mission, it's probable that it will last a lot longer without significant issues. It's not about under-promising and over-delivering... it's about guaranteeing to the limits of their ability that nothing critical will fail within that minimum mission duration.
But Ingenuity is something of an exception to that, because it was always a very speculative inclusion for that mission... if it flew just once, they'd have been pretty happy, having proven that powered flight in Martian atmosphere was indeed possible. Anything beyond that first flight was about finding uses for their new toy...
The rover team in general was not a fan of having to devote resources to what they saw as a distraction from the primary science mission, for “just” a tech demo. So 5 flights might also have been a compromise to get initial buy-in by not requiring much resource commitment.
@@SujanraAcoma the first helicopter on another planet was a "distraction" cmon man, I highly doubt that the scientists disliked the helicopter. If anything I'd expect politicians to be that dumb
Great update/memoriam.Thank you Scott!
Thanks so much for creating and sharing this informative and timely video. Great job. Keep it up.
Was the prop damage from a bird strike? ;)
Tree branch 🌳
Next helicoper will come with those "beginner mode" foam guards around the blades ;-)
Fantastic and historical! Thanks again for the explanation, and out of this world stories!
Thanks for the update Scott!
Definitely exceeded all mission objectives. I'd be willing to bet that any future propeller driven "rover" will have some form of prop guards to prevent damage to the props during ground contact.
about possible things from this point you were discussing at around 5:00
we definitely want to be cautious about what is decided, but as long as we have contact with the ingenuity we might as well try something, even if what is tried gives no results and ends with no contact. otherwise your just giving up when you might be able to get more, never know unless you try
Your videos keep me going. Thank you Scott
71 of 5 is success +. Thank you Scott. I got to know you because of Kerbel and I stayed for the Space updates. :) Your Fan from Tennessee.
Ingenuity did the Wright bros proud , from Kitty Hawk to Mars!
Only 120 years of powered flight
Just here to say: Scott we❤ you
Listening to your video triggered a memory.. "Well, we're still flying." "That's not much." "It's enough." Thank you for the details on Ingenuity. Fly safe! o7
as an avid rotorcraft hobbyist and designer, i'm excited to see the team's next venture. it only gets better. great job!
I know it’s probably a long shot, but are there any plans on sending perseverance over to ingenuity to look at the damage and what might have caused it?
Maybe, but that might be a real risk for the rover due to the dune consistency. You can't risk ending the rover mission to get a close look at the helicopter and it may not give us much information.
The sand dunes that are Ginny's final resting spot are considered "rover deathtraps". So they won't be sending Percy too close. In the press conference, NASA/JPL said that around 250 meters was as close as they'd be able to get. They are going to attempt remote imaging using Mastcam-Z but it won't be a very high resolution shot.
@@TonyApuzzo thank you for the information.
@TonyApuzzo that's unfortunate, but is the right call if the dunes are that dangerous for rovers. More data on what happened would be very useful for making future aircraft for Mars and other planets, but not worth risking a fully functional rover for.
If it was on Earth, in a walking distance, we'd just change the props... But there? 😕
It's a saying we have in the FPV hobby... "Bad props make jello in your footage"...
But who knows. Perhaps some day day the company's vehicle could do that for future missions. But I don't think it would be easy to engineer...
Thanks, Scott!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
If there is free mass contingent to bring spares as cargo... My guess is, viable prop replacement requires manufacturing them on Mars.
@@TheAgamemnon911 Exactly, that's what makes it so difficult... Because every gram going there from Earth is too expensive...
@@MCsCreations Yup. And by the time we can produce spares on site, it's likely that the techie operating the fabricator will just walk over and do the replacement manually anyway... But only if they can be arsed to go outside, instead of making a complete new drone. :)
By the time it could be fixed, it'd be so obsolete that it'd be worth more as-is than restored.
Excellent summary of the activities of the Ingenuity test article!
Thanks
Flight 72/5! The profound over engineering is just mind boggling. Well done and massive kudos to the team that built this little chopper. Looking forward to seeing what will come from all this.
What interests me most is whether there are any updates on how Ingenuity's chipset performed in Martian conditions. If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time they've used an off-the-shelf Snapdragon smartphone chip. As these are very powerful and operate with great efficiency, it will be important to study these types of chips for future missions to enable more and hopefully cheaper missions.
A very comprehensive post on a fascinating topic. Thank you
Thanks for the narration of the history of the little chopper the could! Good job Scott.
If I'm not mistaken, Lil' Chopper was desgned by a group of STEM students from my state, Idaho! The fact that Ingenuity over achieved speaks volumes!!
Thanks for this great post, Scott
You are #1 in space reporting!!
6:24 2002? dang ingenuity has been flying on mars for a little longer than ive been alive😜
So proud of the team who put this together. Ingenuity was a truly special moment in space exploration history. Fly high, little guy!
I really appreciate knowing about the software fixes. Determining fixes, talking to and updating a complex system on another planet is amazing.
I don't remember where I saw it, but there's a discssion about how NASA does software updates. Not so much the transmission, but the actual programming. At the time it was written, it said the entire team would spend up to 6 months talking over proposed changes, making sure they knew every possible interaction and how the change might affect other things. As Scott said, the extra power drain of the color camera caused navigation glitches in the helicopter. That should have come out in planning meetings. Next time, eh?
they can just use it to find out how long the electronics last in the cycles of day/night.
Issue is that dust is probably going to cover the solar panel before you can get any useful results from that
@@daveboy2000wonder if the blade cam blow the dust away
Reverse the blade so you push the sand off ?
@@firefly2472 Problem is that making them spin the other way around does not fix the fact they're unbalanced, and that would make the whole thing shake like washing machine on a trampoline and risk falling over.
Damn aliens clipping the wings 😮
They wanted to keep it as a pet, but it kept flying off.
If it was them, likely they'd have claimed responsibility by now.
*Salute*
Rest in peace, Ingenuity. May the next mission fare even better!
bittersweet but excellent episode, made my day, thanks!
The real X-plane that was never awarded the name
I mean... They could just try to fly again and see what happens.
I say the same, just go for it, see what happens.
@@volvo09 There's nothing to lose. Try all the other ideas first, sure, but then just go for it. Maybe it shakes itself to pieces, but maybe it works well enough to keep collecting data.
Still incredible this mission worked at all! What an amazing job.
"Fly safe" was particularly fitting this time
Sadly, it's not _2 blades_ that are broken... it's *_all 4!_*
Although, that could actually mean they could still be mostly balanced! _(I'm speaking out if slight experience, having had played with broken computer fans, which run at even faster speeds)_
If there's anymotor power in reserve, *_perhaps_* they could still fly by running it even faster, to offset the missing blade length.
After all, this is a pathfinder mission, and if they can manage to fly with even _less_ rotor blade, that's important!
I don't doubt they'll take all the use they can.
they probably won't. i'm not experienced in helicopters but if they're broken off and have very weirdly shaped edges then it probably won't fly for shit. if the rotors are now not the same lenght as well it'll become very unstable too so just upping the rotor speed won't fix it. you need new rotors all together but that's not rly possible so it's the end for Ingenuity.
Maybe. Yes. But it will still vibrate the bearings to shreds in short order when they try that. (yeah, _when_ they try. I am absolutely sure it will only be abandoned when coms is bricked, too)
@@TheAgamemnon911 what's the point in leaving barely-functional equipment functional?
@@quantumblauthor7300 Exactly. Also, I want to see someone try to fix _that_ with a software update. :D
It just unlocked a new mode of travel; the wild waddle across the dunes.
Great video. Love your content Scott.
Exceptional narrative. Thank you Scott.
Well just like most NASA missions it far exceeded its original goal.
6:25 2002? 2022.
Smashing success! Can’t wait to see the next rendition of The Mars Helicopter!❤
Thanks Scott! Great details!
This video gave me closure. Thanks ❤️
Well done Scott. Thank You.
BEAUTIFUL Recap of Ginny's impact on human exploration, Scott. Thank you!!
Most people do not realize the length of each propeller. It’s amazing that battery lasted as long as it did.
Definitely if the props are unbalanced the drone will rip itself apart
Great video!
A+ Narration Mr M. Great video. 👍
It's surpassed all expectations. Amazing how far its been 😊