Posted on May 20, 2021
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s latest 4K aerial photo and 6th flight updates
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Good Thursday Morning my Brothers and Sisters!
Looks like our Helicopter, Ingenuity, is going to make a 6th flight early next week and this video is a precursor to that flight... Some new information is provided as to what will be done and accomplished and includes other details of interest along with some current ground photos...,which seem rather mundane, but recognize that all these photos that are taken have a purpose for geologists and others to make determinations about the Martian surface and its composition... Patience is what it takes in that regard...
Here is what NASA has released:
On May 19, 2021 NASA published 4K UHD image from Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s onboard camera from 5th flight and announced date of 6th flight. Ingenuity Helicopter's 6th flight scheduled for next week. 6th flight will take 140 seconds. Altitude will be 33 feet (10 meters), then heading southwest for 492 feet (150 meters). Speed is 9 mph (4 meters per second). When it achieves that distance, the rotorcraft will begin acquiring color pictures of three different areas of interest as it translates to the south about 50-66 feet (15-20 meters). After completing its image collection, Ingenuity will fly 164 feet (50 meters) northeast where it will touch down at its new base of operations (known as "Field C").
In today’s video there is footage of Dust Devil spotted by Perseverance during Ingenuity’s 5th flight. Ingenuity’s onboard camera shooting in resolution of 4208-by-3120-pixel. 6th flight will be also the first time the helicopter will land at an airfield which it did not survey from the air during a previous mission. Instead, the Ingenuity team is relying on imagery collected by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that suggests this new base of operations is relatively flat and has few surface obstructions.
Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Thomas Appéré
Enjoy my friends!
Kerry
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Looks like our Helicopter, Ingenuity, is going to make a 6th flight early next week and this video is a precursor to that flight... Some new information is provided as to what will be done and accomplished and includes other details of interest along with some current ground photos...,which seem rather mundane, but recognize that all these photos that are taken have a purpose for geologists and others to make determinations about the Martian surface and its composition... Patience is what it takes in that regard...
Here is what NASA has released:
On May 19, 2021 NASA published 4K UHD image from Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s onboard camera from 5th flight and announced date of 6th flight. Ingenuity Helicopter's 6th flight scheduled for next week. 6th flight will take 140 seconds. Altitude will be 33 feet (10 meters), then heading southwest for 492 feet (150 meters). Speed is 9 mph (4 meters per second). When it achieves that distance, the rotorcraft will begin acquiring color pictures of three different areas of interest as it translates to the south about 50-66 feet (15-20 meters). After completing its image collection, Ingenuity will fly 164 feet (50 meters) northeast where it will touch down at its new base of operations (known as "Field C").
In today’s video there is footage of Dust Devil spotted by Perseverance during Ingenuity’s 5th flight. Ingenuity’s onboard camera shooting in resolution of 4208-by-3120-pixel. 6th flight will be also the first time the helicopter will land at an airfield which it did not survey from the air during a previous mission. Instead, the Ingenuity team is relying on imagery collected by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that suggests this new base of operations is relatively flat and has few surface obstructions.
Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Thomas Appéré
Enjoy my friends!
Kerry
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SPC Michael Terrell
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A1C Riley Sanders
made with Space craft quality, running short distances , with minimal time,
my answer is I don't know, but would think worth the money , even with what it has done thus far.
my answer is I don't know, but would think worth the money , even with what it has done thus far.
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Fantastic video, sure would like to catch the Chinese in a whopper, do we have any actual evidence that they landed on Mars?
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