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      Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 26 February - 14:33

    An image of <em>Ingenuity</em> captured by <em>Perseverance</em>'s SuperCam RMI instrument.

    Enlarge / An image of Ingenuity captured by Perseverance 's SuperCam RMI instrument. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/Simeon Schmauß)

    It has now been several weeks since NASA's tenacious helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity , made its final flight above the red planet.

    This happened last month. On January 6, Ingenuity flew 40 feet (12 meters) skyward but then made an unplanned early landing after just 35 seconds. Twelve days later operators intended to troubleshoot the vehicle with a quick up-and-down test. Data from the vehicle indicated that it ascended to 40 feet again during this test, but then communications were ominously lost at the end of the flight.

    On January 20 NASA reestablished communications with the helicopter, but the space agency declared an end to its flying days after an image of the vehicle's shadow showed that at least one of its blades had sustained minor damage. This capped an end to a remarkable mission during which Ingenuity exceeded all expectations .

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      Cette photo révèle l’étendue des dégâts sur l’hélico Ingenuity

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 26 February - 10:44

    Ingenuity, l'hélicoptère de la Nasa sur Mars, est sérieusement amoché. Une nouvelle image de Perseverance montre à quel point le petit aéronef est abimé par son dernier atterrissage en catastrophe.

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      Before Ingenuity ever landed on Mars, scientists almost managed to kill it

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 12 February - 11:45

    This is the final photo that Perseverance took of Ingenuity before moving away from its final resting spot.

    Enlarge / This is the final photo that Perseverance took of Ingenuity before moving away from its final resting spot. (credit: NASA/Simeon Schmauß)

    MiMi Aung could barely contain her excitement as she drove up Oak Grove Drive, the leafy thoroughfare leading to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

    Aung had spent her formative years in Burma and Malaysia, two countries without a space program. A career in aerospace seemed beyond her reach. Yet here she was, at 22 years old, with a job interview to possibly work on the Deep Space Network. Aung dreamed of helping NASA intercept and amplify faint signals sent back to Earth from humanity's farthest-flung spacecraft, including the Voyagers.

    "I remember it like it was yesterday," Aung said.

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      Ingenuity : Perseverance prend une dernière photo souvenir de son compagnon défunt

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 7 February - 15:00

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    Une jolie carte postale qui aidera à se remémorer ce fabuleux petit engin, en attendant ses successeurs.
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      Ceci est la dernière photo de l’hélico Ingenuity, abandonné à son sort sur Mars

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 6 February - 09:32

    Ingenuity ne peut plus s'envoler sur Mars. L'hélicoptère de la Nasa est trop endommagé. Avant de l'abandonner pour toujours, le rover Perseverance a pris une dernière photo de son petit compagnon.

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      NASA : l’hélicoptère Ingenuity était encore plus révolutionnaire que prévu

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 30 January - 17:00

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    Il embarquait notamment un ordinateur de bord 100 fois plus puissant que tous les autres engins du célèbre Jet Propulsion Lab cumulés, grâce à une nouvelle approche de conception qui pourrait transformer le futur de l'exploration spatiale.
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      It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary than we knew

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 29 January - 11:45

    An image from <em>Ingenuity</em>, looking down at the surface of Mars. That's its shadow.

    Enlarge / An image from Ingenuity , looking down at the surface of Mars. That's its shadow. (credit: NASA/JPL)

    Much has been written about the plucky exploits of NASA's small Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. And all of the accolades are deserved. "The little mission that could" did, flying 72 sorties across the red planet and pushing out the frontier of exploration into the unknown.

    Yet as impressive as Ingenuity 's exploits were over the last three years, and though its carbon fiber blades will spin no more, its work has only just begun.

    Ingenuity was groundbreaking in two significant ways that will ripple through the culture of NASA and its exploration efforts for decades to come. Although it is impossible to know the future, both of these impacts seem overwhelmingly positive for our efforts to divine the secrets of our Solar System.

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      C’est fini : l’hélico Ingenuity de la Nasa ne volera plus jamais sur Mars

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 25 January - 20:40

    La fin tant redoutée de la mission d'Ingenuity est arrivée. Le petit hélicoptère de la Nasa a volé pour la dernière fois sur Mars. Il est désormais trop endommagé pour continuer à virevolter près du rover Perseverance.

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      La Nasa s’est fait une frayeur avec son hélico sur Mars

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 22 January - 12:05

    Pendant quelques jours, l'agence spatiale américaine n'a pas réussi à contacter son hélicoptère Ingenuity sur Mars, laissant craindre un incident grave. Le minihélico a depuis été recontacté avec succès. La Nasa essaie désormais de savoir ce qu'il s'est passé.