NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter sent its final signals to Earth in the earlier part of the year. Engineers have been studying these and have started to piece together a picture of events that led up to its final flight. They concluded that data provided by the navigation system was inaccurate leading to a chain of events … Continue reading "NASA Thinks it Knows Why Ingenuity Crashed on Mars"
  • CM400@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    They concluded that data provided by the navigation system was inaccurate leading to a chain of events that caused its ultimate demise. One of the biggest problems it seems is that the terrain was smooth leading to a lack of landmarks during Flight 72.

      • Rogue
        10·
        4 days ago

        Can’t show ingenuity if there’s no challenge

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      Scott Manley described this as “the terrain was simply too bland and featureless”.

      I like that it sounds more like a slam on Mars’ terrain. Your dunes are so lame man, I literally can’t even fly over them any more…

    • yesman@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 days ago

      As funny as it would be to make “bitching Betty” the fist astronaut on Mars, you’ve got a pretty tight weight and power budget to add a whole system to prevent this one outcome.