Martian Memories
Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/advances-in-nasa-imaging-changed-how-world-sees-mars
https://www.europesays.com/us/58428/ Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars #Ingenuity(Helicopter) #Mariner4 #Mars #Mars2020 #MarsPathfinder #MarsReconnaissanceOrbiter(MRO) #Opportunity(Rover) #Perseverance(Rover) #Science #Sojourner(Rover) #Space #UnitedStates #UnitedStates #US #Viking1 #Viking2
https://www.europesays.com/uk/257556/ Advances in NASA Imaging Changed How World Sees Mars #Ingenuity(Helicopter) #Mariner4 #Mars #Mars2020 #MarsPathfinder #MarsReconnaissanceOrbiter(MRO) #Opportunity(Rover) #PerseveranceRover #Science #Sojourner(Rover) #Space #UK #UnitedKingdom #Viking1 #Viking2
Fascinating, and what I imagined ML and AI could do, rather than steal artists’ work and spit out slop.
Perseverance Selfie with Ingenuity
On Sol 46 (April 6, 2021), NASA’s Perseverance rover took its first selfie on Mars. Using the WATSON camera, 62 images were stitched into one detailed mosaic. Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter, stands 4 meters away. It completed its final flight on Jan 18, 2024.
June 7, 2025
NASA APOD
@PaulHammond51
Yes, helicopters are by nature avid leaf-blowers 
. The team already had #Ingenuity, but they hadn't thought, it seems, to use it for that purpose on identified targets. Maybe improving its 'landing gear' could make it easier to operate?
Helicopter sidekicks are very useful indeed. The larger #MarsChopper could certainly clear a wider path, and also provide detailed imagery of the ground below.
But for the time being, that's just reality going back to being #SciFi 
Building A Better You Question #62: Do you take the initiative to make amends when you become aware of your own shortcoming? https://rons-home.net/en/living-life-lab/activities/building-a-better-you/question-of-the-week/2025/06/02 #adapt #resourcefulness #ingenuity #creativity #lead #reform [Next Question Jun 9 2025]
Summer solstice coming up in 7 ½ hours, in the northern hemisphere of Mars (i.e. when Lₛ → 90°, now at 89.81°).
Watch it live 
along with #Perseverance and #Ingenuity¹ (which is presently watching sand shift in the light summer breeze at the Valinor Hills beach), with Mars24, a Java program by #NASA, based on equations by Allison and McEwen:
https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/notes.html
Download:
https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/
¹ assuming the #MarsHelicopter is still functional
@ScienceScholar
Back when this was first proposed, it sounded like an almost insane stretch of technology. Imagine! Flying a rotorcraft on another world.
Mars Ingenuity: "Hold my beer..."
#space #nasa #dragonfly #ingenuity #mars #titan
In both these roles, over the past few years, I've been asked to serve on diverse bodies that offer guidance about how the #Executive & #Legislative branches can be stewards of #knowledge & create structure to enable #discovery, #innovation, & #ingenuity. In the instance of the National #Science Board, this ideal has dissolved so gradually, yet so completely, that I barely noticed its absence until confronted with its hollow simulacrum.
It takes at least six 
months to get to #Mars. #Robots 
go first. They scout the terrain, analyze samples, build infrastructure, and pave the way for eventual human 
arrival.
#Perseverance uses advanced AI to drive autonomously. #Ingenuity uses computer vision to stabilize flight.
#Satellites 
, too, are becoming more #robotic. #InOrbitServicing, once a dream, is now a reality. Robotic spacecraft can refuel 
satellites, repair 
them, or extend their missions https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/how-robotics-is-revolutionizing-space-exploration
#SpaceX uses #Linux 
on the primary flight computers of #Dragon, #Falcon9 and #Starship. A triple redundancy setup allows SpaceX to use fairly off-the-shelf 
x86 computing hardware. #NASA’s #Ingenuity is similar (#OTS parts + Linux) https://hackaday.com/2024/02/10/the-usage-of-embedded-linux-in-spacecraft
Safe & Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (#SPLICE) is a #NASA program to develop next-generation landing technologies for planetary exploration.
SPLICE technologies are being considered for use on Mars Sample Return (#MSR), the Europa Lander, Commercial Lunar Payload Services flights, and Gateway.
The image shows #Ingenuity's Hazard Avoidance system in action on Mars and a sample of SPLICE capabilities.
“Impossible is for the unwilling.”
-John Keats
“Impossible is for the unwilling.”
-John Keats
Why Did The Mars Helicopter Disappear? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20vUNgRdB4o&ab_channel=Veritasium
#Veritasium #Science #NASA #Mars #Ingenuity #Helicopter #BrokenRotors
Did you know the #Mars helicopter #Ingenuity carries piece of Wright brothers' famous plane?
From the first flight on Earth to the first flight on Mars! 
Late-night acrylic silliness: #ESA #Juice, #NASA #EuropaClipper, #Ingenuity and #Mariner4.
An alien battleship in another world.
That's not too far from reality: an alien (to Mars) spaceship drops "wheels on the ground", then moves out, and dies.
The Sky Crane after delivering #Perseverance to the Martian ground. Umbilical cut. #Ingenuity held tight under the rover's belly.
Exactly 4 years ago.
De-bayered, processed EDL_RUCAM
RMC: 0.0000 (prelanding)
Sol: 0
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00293/ids/edr/browse/edl/EUE_0293_0692945892_348ECM_N0090000EDLC00293_0050LUJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
