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2021-02-18, 08:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
For anyone interested in the Perseverance landing attempt on Mars today, NASA will be streaming coverage on their public channel.
Apart from hoping it all works, I'm especially interested in the drone helicopter, although it looks like that won't be flying until early May.
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2021-02-18, 04:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
Congrats Perseverance! Landed safe and sound!
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2021-02-18, 04:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
Always growing our robot invasion of the Red Planet!
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2021-02-18, 04:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
Now Just waiting for helikopter to be deployed, that Will be something
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2021-02-19, 12:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-02-19, 05:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
The Ingenuity helicopter won't be flying for at least another month, since it needs to be (carefully) released and unpacked from the rover, and then they have a whole series of tests to run through before attempting the first flight.
I mentioned early May in the first post, which was their best estimate just prior to landing. They may move up the schedule a little, but it's likely to be a month at least.
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2021-02-19, 06:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
Yes, apparently I did misunderstand. The "week or so" is until the rover starts driving. A more recent press conference estimated 60 days until first flight for the helicopter.
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2021-02-19, 08:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
Thanks for this thread guys... I hadn't realised that this was happening!
I spent maybe two very enjoyable hours yesterday evening reading and watching stuff on Perseverance and the landing. I'm also really looking forward to those helicopter tests.
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2021-02-22, 03:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
Landing video is up, which is one of the coolest things I've watched in a long time:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/n...ng-first-audio
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2021-03-05, 04:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
Now they have reported driving their first few meters (on Sol 14, two weeks after landing), and everything seems to work.
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2021-03-12, 04:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
For anyone who missed it, here's a very recent episode of NOVA giving an overview of the engineering and design work for Perseverance, along with a glimpse at a possible Mars Sample Return mission architecture.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/...-life-on-mars/
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2021-03-12, 05:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
I like to think of it like it Persi as leaving presents for future explorers, the solar system's longest distance Easter egg hunt.
The video the rover took using the skycrane was just spectacular. The closest I will come to knowing what its like to land on Mars.
And there is something absolutely haunting about listening to the audio, the sounds of the rover and the thin Martian wind murmuring. I hope the send even more.
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2021-03-23, 05:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
It's now looking like the first Ingenuity flight will be in April. The landing site (Octavia E. Butler landing) turned out to be a pretty good location for a test flight.
...And now, they are very slowly and carefully unfolding and lowering the helicopter to the ground, in a multi-day process. You can follow along at https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
By April 4, the helicopter has been deployed, and the rover has driven away from it.Last edited by DavidSh; 2021-04-04 at 12:45 PM. Reason: News
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2021-04-19, 05:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
So Ingenuity has flown, now only waiting for a date to arrive and maybe some photos, NASA guys must have been very stressed right now : )
EDIT: It looks like it all went well !Last edited by asda fasda; 2021-04-19 at 05:53 AM.
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2021-04-19, 07:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
Best news I've woken up to in a very long while. NASA is really outshining themselves with this mission.
There are some low-resolution clips on various sites, but no really smooth video yet. I'm hoping for some aerial footage of Perseverance as it rolls along.
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2021-04-19, 07:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
Cool and great on many levels.
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2021-04-19, 04:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
Here's a full video from JPL, showing spinup, first flight, and safe landing:
Smooth and uneventful, exactly what you want your flight to be.
Also supremely historic.
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2021-04-20, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
So, technically, this is the first Martian nuclear powered aircraft carrier, right?
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2021-04-20, 01:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Perseverance Landing at Jezero Crater
While helicopter carriers are a recognized class of aircraft carriers, I think a carrier has to able to accept landing of some kind of aircraft, and we don't have any evidence of that for Perseverance yet. You wouldn't want to call a container ship a carrier just because you can stuff one of the containers full of quadcopters. Or at least, I wouldn't.