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"The Perseverance rover is currently too far away to attempt to image the helicopter at its final airfield."
Though we can't come to you to say "goodbye", have a good rest little one, your job is over. You did so much more than we expected of you. You made us proud.
The combination of technologies that made this possible is really mind bending.
Without a human ever setting foot on Mars, we can identify and solve the physics of flight in a new atmosphere on the first try.
The idea of a drone that can swim below the ice in the oceans of Europa doesn't seem that far fetched any more.
what is it that pale blue dot?
Looks like a piece of the carbon fibre rotor to me
Earth
I wonder if they wouldn't rotate the blades 180 degrees to compare how much is actually missing. Seems like they would be able to adjust the pitch of the blade to compensate for damage, but it could be that a large enough portion is damaged as to make it infeasible
They did plan some blade rotations, then this image came down. I hope they do more imaging. there should be a lot more images on the helicopter, lets see what is made public in the days ahead
