Posted on Jul 1, 2021
Helicopter Ingenuity in trouble on Mars losing ability to take Hi-Res color photos
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Helicopter Ingenuity Is In Trouble!!!
Well, perhaps not as bad as it sounds... Looks like there is a camera glitch for Ingenuity's Color camera imaging scenario... Here is the description by iGadgetPro based on NASA's input.
iGadgetPro
"On June 25, 2021 NASA published detail description of future missions for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter considering 2nd software update because of HD imaging issue. Ingenuity’s team determined that capturing color images may have been inducing the imaging pipeline glitch, which resulted in the instability (Flight 6 anomaly). So Mars Helicopter needs 2nd software update to make thing going well within upcoming 9th flight. Ingenuity’s first bug was solved by software update (watchdog timer issue).
Another software update for Mars Helicopter is intended to return ability to make 13 Megapixels photos on mars without flight anomalies for Ingenuity. Last week Mars Helicopter completed its 8th flight on flying to 160 meters South and Perseverance goes to new location Séítah as well. Black and white images are from Ingenuity’s onboard camera directly. Mars Helicopter flew for 77.4 seconds. Maximal horizontal speed was 4 meters per second. Altitude was 10 meters. Ingenuity made amazing work to live on Mars autonomously.
Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Trying to Keep you all up to date,
Kerry
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Well, perhaps not as bad as it sounds... Looks like there is a camera glitch for Ingenuity's Color camera imaging scenario... Here is the description by iGadgetPro based on NASA's input.
iGadgetPro
"On June 25, 2021 NASA published detail description of future missions for Ingenuity Mars Helicopter considering 2nd software update because of HD imaging issue. Ingenuity’s team determined that capturing color images may have been inducing the imaging pipeline glitch, which resulted in the instability (Flight 6 anomaly). So Mars Helicopter needs 2nd software update to make thing going well within upcoming 9th flight. Ingenuity’s first bug was solved by software update (watchdog timer issue).
Another software update for Mars Helicopter is intended to return ability to make 13 Megapixels photos on mars without flight anomalies for Ingenuity. Last week Mars Helicopter completed its 8th flight on flying to 160 meters South and Perseverance goes to new location Séítah as well. Black and white images are from Ingenuity’s onboard camera directly. Mars Helicopter flew for 77.4 seconds. Maximal horizontal speed was 4 meters per second. Altitude was 10 meters. Ingenuity made amazing work to live on Mars autonomously.
Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Trying to Keep you all up to date,
Kerry
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It is, but we almost lost it on its 6th flight as a result of a software glitch... Somehow the cameras operation can affect the guidance of Ingenuity, so hopefully the software fixes will work effectively, to keep Ingenuity going for a while longer...
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SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D
If it can't be resolved with a programming fix we can always blame the Martians. After all we lived with B & W tvs for years and years and no one ever complained. Just happy we are there and getting pics even if they aren't 13 HD Resolution color. I am certain the color data we captured so far provided volumes of information for evaluation.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D You're so right! My latest conundrum is why after years and years of bigger and more high definition TVs isn't now in vogue to watch TV or movies on a cell phone?
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