Posted on Apr 25, 2021
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity’s 3rd flight in 4K for 100 meters distance
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HERE IS THE 3rd FLIGHT VIDEO WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR TODAY!!!
Yep! It is true, this is the video of the 3rd Flight of Ingenuity! It flue to a predetermined height of 5-meters (16.5 feet) and a distance of of about 50-meters or 164-feet and returned to land at its home base (another 164 feet), so all told it flew about 330 feet... Controlled from about 295,517,226 kilometers or 183,625,891 miles from Earth... Tell me that isn't absolutely amazing! WOW!
Here is what NASA stated:
"On April 25, 2021 NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter completed 3rd 100-meters longwise flight sending 4K UHD images from onboard camera. There are 3 onboard 4K images from Ingenuity’s 3rd flight on Mars. For the third flight altitude is 5 meters, but increasing max airspeed from 0.5 meters per second to 2 meters per second (about 4.5 mph) as we head 50 meters (164 feet) north and return to land at Wright Brothers Field. Total flight time of about 80 seconds and a total distance of 100 meters (330 feet).
While that number may not seem like a lot, consider that we never moved laterally more than about two-pencil lengths when we flight-tested in the vacuum chamber here on Earth. And while the 4 meters of lateral movement in Flight Two (2 meters out and then 2 meters back) was great, providing lots of terrific data, it was still only 4 meters. As such, Flight Three is a big step, one in which Ingenuity will begin to experience freedom in the sky. Mounted in the helicopter’s fuselage and pointed approximately 22 degree below the horizon, Ingenuity’s high-resolution color camera contains a 4208-by-3120-pixel sensor. There is also 4K video of 2nd flight of Ingenuity on Mars (enhanced using AI Engine)."
Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Enjoy!!!
Kerry
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Yep! It is true, this is the video of the 3rd Flight of Ingenuity! It flue to a predetermined height of 5-meters (16.5 feet) and a distance of of about 50-meters or 164-feet and returned to land at its home base (another 164 feet), so all told it flew about 330 feet... Controlled from about 295,517,226 kilometers or 183,625,891 miles from Earth... Tell me that isn't absolutely amazing! WOW!
Here is what NASA stated:
"On April 25, 2021 NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter completed 3rd 100-meters longwise flight sending 4K UHD images from onboard camera. There are 3 onboard 4K images from Ingenuity’s 3rd flight on Mars. For the third flight altitude is 5 meters, but increasing max airspeed from 0.5 meters per second to 2 meters per second (about 4.5 mph) as we head 50 meters (164 feet) north and return to land at Wright Brothers Field. Total flight time of about 80 seconds and a total distance of 100 meters (330 feet).
While that number may not seem like a lot, consider that we never moved laterally more than about two-pencil lengths when we flight-tested in the vacuum chamber here on Earth. And while the 4 meters of lateral movement in Flight Two (2 meters out and then 2 meters back) was great, providing lots of terrific data, it was still only 4 meters. As such, Flight Three is a big step, one in which Ingenuity will begin to experience freedom in the sky. Mounted in the helicopter’s fuselage and pointed approximately 22 degree below the horizon, Ingenuity’s high-resolution color camera contains a 4208-by-3120-pixel sensor. There is also 4K video of 2nd flight of Ingenuity on Mars (enhanced using AI Engine)."
Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Enjoy!!!
Kerry
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Posted 3 y ago
They need a geosynchronous satellite in orbit around Mars, to control it from above.
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Sgt (Join to see)
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In my view, SPC Michael Terrell, even if Ingenuity or a next generation RC helicopter was controlled from a Geosynchronous satellite, that satellite would still have to receive the commands from NASA's Earth-based Mission Control element...so I am not sure that would work, but it is worth looking at...
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SPC Michael Terrell
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Sgt (Join to see) - My thinking is that it would allow it to fly much further from the lander, because the communications distance is basicly line of sight. From orbit and at least three Geosynchronous satellites, it could eventually make it all the way around Mars, if the mechanics hold up.
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Posted 3 y ago
Casper Aviation Platoon Helicopter Pilots served in the 173d Airborne Brigade in Vietnam from 1965 - 1971.
Thank you my space-exploration advocate friend Sgt (Join to see) for posting the documentary video 'Mars Helicopter Ingenuity’s 3rd flight in 4K for 100 meters distance'
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Vietnam War Music - Sky Pilot
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FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen LTC (Join to see)MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Sgt Albert Castro PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSG Samuel Kermon SSG Franklin Briant SP5 Geoffrey VannersonA1C Riley SandersGySgt Thomas Vick CPL Douglas Chrysler SSG Bill McCoy SP5 Gary Nelson SMSgt Tom Burns SGT James Murphy SFC William Farrell
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LTC Stephen F.
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128th Helicopter Gunship Assault Company, prepping the LZ Vietnam 1969.
Huey gunships prep the LZ for an Infantry insertion Vietnam 1969.
128th Helicopter Gunship Assault Company, prepping the LZ Vietnam 1969.
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FYI Cpl (Join to see) SFC William FarrellTSgt David L. SPC Michael TerrellSSG Paul Headlee SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D SSG Michael Noll SPC Randy Zimmerman Sgt Albert Castro Sgt Vance Bonds Cpl Vic Burk Sgt Vance Bonds MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi SGT Denny Espinosa SGT Mark Halmrast SPC Nancy Greene SPC Michael Terrell SPC Michael Oles SR SGT Randal Groover PO3 Bob McCord 1LT Peter Duston
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