Despite unexpected motion from an image processing issue, Ingenuity muscled through the final ~65 meters of its 215-meter journey, landed safely & is ready to fly again. Just keep flying 🚁 #MarsHelicopter completed its 6th flight.
Prior to landing safely, onboard sensors indicated the rotorcraft encountered roll and pitch excursions of more than 20 degrees, large control inputs, and spikes in power consumption." "This behavior persisted throughout the rest of the flight. "Ingenuity began adjusting its velocity and tilting back and forth in an oscillating pattern," wrote Ingenuity pilot Håvard Grip of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in a blog post. The little helicopter was to vertically ascend to a height of 10 meters (33 feet), then make a horizontal flight of three legs - southwest for 150 meters, at which point it would turn and move 15 meters in a southward direction while taking images, before turning northeast and flying for another 50 meters before landing, all at a speed of about 4 meters per second (8.9 mph).īut, just as it reached the end of that first 150-meter leg, Ingenuity started acting really weird. The sky was clear and bright, perfect for Ingenuity's task: demonstrating its ability to take aerial stereo images. The event took place on - the 91st Martian day of the Perseverance mission.
#Mars anomaly Patch#
This is actually great news, because it demonstrates the multiple ways in which the vehicle is robust to errors - as well as giving engineers here at home an opportunity to patch them.
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