Posted on Mar 27, 2021
Perseverance Rover made panoramas at Helipad – Mars Helicopter Ingenuity deployment place
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Yesterday, NASA Mission Control re-surveyed the Ingenuity Helipad in preparation for it to be released and prepped for flight... This all takes time, but is necessary... I noted that there is a cylindrical element onboard Perseverance, which appears to have some damage... Most likely damaged during the landing... We are getting close to Ingenuity's first flight attempt, which should occur in early April... Full Screen viewing recommended.
Here is the write up that accompanies the video:
"On March 26, 2021 NASA’s Perseverance Rover made several amazing panoramas of Helipad – Mars Helicopter deployment place. As for now, Release system of the Helicopter is locked. But Rover definitely at Helipad. So upcoming event is Ingenuity unlocking (releasing) and bringing Helicopter upright. On the sixth and final scheduled sol of this deployment phase, the team will need to confirm three things: that Ingenuity’s four legs are firmly on the surface of Jezero Crater, that the rover did, indeed, drive about 16 feet (about 5 meters) away, and that both helicopter and rover are communicating via their onboard radios. This milestone also initiates the 30-sol clock during which time all preflight checks and flight tests must take place.
Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Enjoy,
Kerry
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Here is the write up that accompanies the video:
"On March 26, 2021 NASA’s Perseverance Rover made several amazing panoramas of Helipad – Mars Helicopter deployment place. As for now, Release system of the Helicopter is locked. But Rover definitely at Helipad. So upcoming event is Ingenuity unlocking (releasing) and bringing Helicopter upright. On the sixth and final scheduled sol of this deployment phase, the team will need to confirm three things: that Ingenuity’s four legs are firmly on the surface of Jezero Crater, that the rover did, indeed, drive about 16 feet (about 5 meters) away, and that both helicopter and rover are communicating via their onboard radios. This milestone also initiates the 30-sol clock during which time all preflight checks and flight tests must take place.
Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Enjoy,
Kerry
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Great video, can't wait for flight day! In watching I started wondering how long it will take Martian winds to erase the tracks of Perseverance.
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Interesting note, Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - Probably a while unless a dust devil comes racing through! LOL!
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I think these mars videos are remarkable. To see another planet leaves me speechless.!
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CWO3 Dennis M. - Having landed on Mars with a cadre of technological marvels, we see the make up of the day to day landscape of another planet... We know there are billions of planets in the Universe and there is the strong likelihood that some of these planets in the "Habitable" zone, may be like this or even like Planet Earth... Now if we can fly a helicopter on this planet, that would be historic! If we find bacterial life or even the fossils of bacterial life, then we know that life could be anywhere in God's Universe!
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CWO3 Dennis M.
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Sgt (Join to see) - I already believe there is other life in the universe. How could there not be?
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CWO3 Dennis M. - I believe so too, and I am convinced one or more alien species has been monitoring us for eons... Even the UFOs, which have been seen and tracked by astute military and civilian aircraft pilots in today's world, have shown tremendous feats of propulsion that our current knowledge of Physics indicates should not be possible... The naysayers of the world continue to hide this so they don't have to deal with it...
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Tour the Perseverance Mars Rover’s New Home with Mission Experts
Take a guided tour around the first high-definition 360-degree view of Jezero Crater provided by NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover. Mission experts will walk us...
Wonder if that location was a body of water at one time.
Long (hour) but interesting . . . "Tour the Perseverance Mars Rover’s New Home with Mission Experts"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdlfdBiSzKw
Long (hour) but interesting . . . "Tour the Perseverance Mars Rover’s New Home with Mission Experts"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdlfdBiSzKw
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