Space Exploration - James Webb Telescope / Mars Rovers, etc

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another video? it's exactly the same. they're not broadcasting a football game up there, there's only one camera.:LOL:

although it will be nice once the chopper roams around and we see video it takes of the surface of mars. i'm expecting a lot of rocks and brown dirt.

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The one I posted didn’t have the NASA watermark. :D

I read somewhere there is a camera on the helicopter. I haven’t seen any videos and I just did a quick check. THAT is potentially cool.
 

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Auto oxygen generators are probably going to be sent that way sometime in the near future to start building breathable air. Best spot would be one with frozen water. They can turn water into both breathable air and rocket fuel for the return flight home if they can find a good spot like that.
 

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3rd flight it makes moves sideways. Decent photos too.


View: https://youtu.be/IZK9Xp3h6JM

Sweet. I also read they accomplished what they needed to to call it a success and will want to push it to its limit on the 4th flight.

Welp, I hadn't seen the news since this morning. Just saw this.
 
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This is seriously giving me Mass Effect vibes (where humanity discovered alien tech on Mars that allowed intergalactic space flight).
 

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4th flight was a success this morning at a little before 11 a.m. EDT. On to the next phase...


"Our team has been extremely happy and proud of the Ingenuity flights to date, and now it's like Ingenuity is graduating from the tech demo phase to the new ops demo phase where we can show how a rotorcraft can be used and ensure products that only an aerial platform from an aerial dimension can give," said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, during the press conference.
 

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4th flight was a success this morning at a little before 11 a.m. EDT. On to the next phase...


"Our team has been extremely happy and proud of the Ingenuity flights to date, and now it's like Ingenuity is graduating from the tech demo phase to the new ops demo phase where we can show how a rotorcraft can be used and ensure products that only an aerial platform from an aerial dimension can give," said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, during the press conference.

The flights have appeared well controlled. I am anxious to see what they have up their sleeves. (y)
 

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The flights have appeared well controlled. I am anxious to see what they have up their sleeves. (y)
Hope they don't push it too far that it doesn't last the extra month they're giving it! Then again, they won't know what they truly have if they don't...
 

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Hope they don't push it too far that it doesn't last the extra month they're giving it! Then again, they won't know what they truly have if they don't...

Yeah. What is too far? I really don’t know?

Maybe a big circle in the first one. Probably still semi basic? Then again...

Do you remember the range of it?
 

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I see we are already starting to litter other planets now

 

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Yeah. What is too far? I really don’t know?

Maybe a big circle in the first one. Probably still semi basic? Then again...

Do you remember the range of it?


It went about 870 feet round trip on its latest flight I think— close to its flight range.

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Source: NASA
 

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Auto oxygen generators are probably going to be sent that way sometime in the near future to start building breathable air. Best spot would be one with frozen water. They can turn water into both breathable air and rocket fuel for the return flight home if they can find a good spot like that.
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