NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter, broken and alone, spotted by Perseverance rover on Martian dune
NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter, broken and alone, spotted by Perseverance rover on Martian dune
Ingenuity already looks lonely.
NASA's Perseverance Rover took a photo of its broken companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, as it sat alone on a dune.
My battery is low and it's getting dark
57 0 ReplyIt's just resting. All good. 😢
37 0 Reply34 0 Reply34 0 ReplyI prefer the existential dread of the original. 😀
8 0 ReplyHell yeah science/scientists et al.
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30 0 ReplyOh my gosh what is this from? The one where Wallace and Gromit go to the moon?
16 0 ReplyAye, laddie, that’s A Grand Day Out. Now be a good sport and pass the Wensleydale, would you?
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Carefully, he’s a hero
23 0 ReplyThe Jawas will probably pick it up some day.
11 0 ReplyOne day in the distant future, that little guy will be sitting in a museum.
11 0 ReplyNot unless it's a museum in Mars. Bringing it back to Earth would be a massive waste of resources.
2 4 ReplyOctospider can have a little dream, as a treat.
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That thing was such an inspiration. Also, for once they took some risk and it really paid off.
8 0 Replyc3po and r2 are wandering away from it
6 0 ReplyDid it not live YEARS past its expected time?
Any chance the rover can like... Repair it?
5 1 ReplyI mean, of course it's alone. I'd be quite surprised if it wasn't. Is this some sort of attempt to get us emotionally weepy about a broken drone?
10 8 ReplyIf it is it's bloody working
19 0 ReplyDo you feel sorry for the helicopter? That is because you crazy.
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"We couldn't be prouder or happier with how our little baby has done," said Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity Project Manager at JPL, during a livestreamed tribute to the helicopter on Jan. 31. "It's been the mission of a lifetime for all of us. And I wanted to say thank you to all of the people here that gave their weekends, their late nights. All the engineers, the aerodynamic scientists, the technicians who hand-crafted this aircraft."
Bet JPL could invent something to get even you to care :p
2 0 ReplyMarvin the Martian is around, but is good at avoiding the cameras
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Great, humans are already littering in space.
2 8 ReplyYou're 50+ years late to that party and the snark is still dumb.
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