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Re: APOD: The Shadow of Ingenuity's Rotor... (2024 Feb 10)
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2024 12:25 am
by johnnydeep
Roy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 12:11 am
SeedsofEarfth wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:54 pm
I'm curious about the little bright blue dot in the lower left quadrant of the ingenuity shadow photograph. Is that a camera anomaly or something in the Martian soil? It looks almost like a tiny piece of turquoise. Anyone else see it?
There is a big chunk at top left, two little chunks left of the rotor, and a broken piece right of the rotor. Don’t know what.
That "big chunk" is part of Ingenuity!
Re: APOD: The Shadow of Ingenuity's Rotor... (2024 Feb 10)
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:04 pm
by Fred the Cat
johnnydeep wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 6:40 pm
Fred the Cat wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:58 pm
Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:26 pm
I don't think the communications loss was related to distance.
Unfortunately, its end
was also ground-breaking.
More like
rotor breaking!
Or both? The "
soil" looks like it may have been recently disturbed.
Re: APOD: The Shadow of Ingenuity's Rotor... (2024 Feb 10)
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:18 pm
by johnnydeep
Fred the Cat wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:04 pm
johnnydeep wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 6:40 pm
Fred the Cat wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:58 pm
Unfortunately, its end
was also ground-breaking.
More like
rotor breaking!
Or both? The "
soil" looks like it may have been recently disturbed.
Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, the soil does indeed look like a "shovel" of some sort (perhaps the rotor itself!) has crudely dug out a chunk of it to the left of the rotor shadow!
Re: APOD: The Shadow of Ingenuity's Rotor... (2024 Feb 10)
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:18 pm
by Guest
sc02492 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 1:32 pm
Guest wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 6:49 am
The Wright Flyer of 1903 was NOT "the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight" on Earth! In 1884 the airship La France made a 23-minute, 5-mile round trip flight, returning to her starting point against the wind. Other less-successful craft made powered flights even before that.
The Wright Flyer was the first aircraft to achieve "heavier-than-air" powered, controlled flight. That is the achievement being referred to here.
Steve
Of course! But that's not what they say here.