NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter, broken and alone, spotted by Perseverance rover on Martian dune (photo, video)
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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.

  • FaceDeer@kbin.social
    108·
    9 months ago

    I 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?

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      9 months ago

      “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