NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than
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.
RIP to a real one
Why rip? Did it crash?
Rtfa. It’s literally the second sentence.
Does this post link to an article? Just showing as an image in Liftoff.
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/
I’m seeing that now. Definitely wasn’t there before though. That’s pretty typical for Lemmy.
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.