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After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why rip? Did it crash?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Rtfa. It's literally the second sentence.

imagery of its Jan. 18 flight sent to Earth this week indicates one or more of its rotor blades sustained damage during landing, and it is no longer capable of flight.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What article? I'm only getting an image

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry. I fixed it. For some reason when I added the image it removed the link I had.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think Lemmy posts can be a link XOR an image, not both. You can always put links it the body text though, as I see you have done now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does this post link to an article? Just showing as an image in Liftoff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Odd. I'm on kbin so I can't say what it looks like elsewhere but it's a direct link for me.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'm seeing that now. Definitely wasn't there before though. That's pretty typical for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/

Its rotors were damaged on its last landing and it is now incapable of flight though it is still in communication with NASA.