NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter sent its final signals to Earth in the earlier part of the year. Engineers have been studying these and have started to piece together a picture of events that led up to its final flight. They concluded that data provided by the navigation system was inaccurate leading to a chain of events … Continue reading "NASA Thinks it Knows Why Ingenuity Crashed on Mars"
  • @CM400
    26•4 days ago

    They concluded that data provided by the navigation system was inaccurate leading to a chain of events that caused its ultimate demise. One of the biggest problems it seems is that the terrain was smooth leading to a lack of landmarks during Flight 72.

    • @roofuskitEnglish
      25•4 days ago

      Mars robot crashes due to lack of obstacles

    • @Cocodapuf
      3•3 days ago

      Scott Manley described this as “the terrain was simply too bland and featureless”.

      I like that it sounds more like a slam on Mars’ terrain. Your dunes are so lame man, I literally can’t even fly over them any more…

  • Blaster MEnglish
    3•4 days ago

    So basically, they needed a GPWS on the copter.

    • @yesman
      2•4 days ago

      As funny as it would be to make “bitching Betty” the fist astronaut on Mars, you’ve got a pretty tight weight and power budget to add a whole system to prevent this one outcome.