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NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Spots Spacecraft Wreckage on Mars

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NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Spots Spacecraft Wreckage on Mars – Perseverance’s Cone-Shaped Backshell

Eyeing some of the components that enabled the Perseverance rover to get safely to the Martian surface could provide valuable insights for future missions. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that assisted the agency’s Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone
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Is is just me, or does it look like water is covering some of the wreckage?
 
This little drone has been incredible. It piggy backed on the perseverance rover and was supposed to be a technology test. It was initially scheduled for 5 flights, to test if the concept even works at all, since Mars has a very thin atmosphere, it wasn't sure it would be able to get enough lift. The fact that it is still going a year later, is just phenomenal.
 
That's clearly the remains of the HAB after Mark Whatley treated it like a sports car in the hood.
 
kingofnerf said:
Link is good.

Great article. Did you write it?
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Yessir. Big part of my job is writing about the research at the university where I work; combines my former life as a journalist with my even more former life as a fisheries biologist .. love writing about science.
 
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