NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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Flight 54 Preview - A pop-up test flight for heli-localization (mars.nasa.gov)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, very thorough answer - thank you! Super interesting situation. Fingers crossed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone just shared this with me.... It has more depth - https://picknik.ai/slam/localization/state%20estimation/mars%20helicopter/2021/05/10/Ingenuity.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@paulhammond5155 @isaiah It's still super interesting they use a smartphone processor(Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 to be exact) on Ginny and that's it's holding up so well!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have to admit I thought they would be lucky to survive a few months... Yet, here we are >2 years on

BTW - Just got some of the flight 54 images