36 Months on Mars: A Bright Object Really Is Following Us!

This video chronicles the dramatic and poignant events of NASA's Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. On Sol 988, after a solar conjunction, Perseverance processes the terrain and Ingenuity undertakes its 67th flight. Perseverance captures interesting geological features, while Ingenuity crashes on its 72nd flight, damaging its blades severely. Meanwhile, Perseverance encounters its own challenges with a stuck dust cover on its camera. Despite these setbacks, both continue their missions, with Ingenuity now serving as a stationary data collector. The video touches on the rover's continuous exploration and the eventual goal to retrieve Ingenuity's hard drive containing decades of data.

This video is part of Perseverance's journey on Mars. This video is 36 Months on Mars.

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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ./SSI

RIMFAX Animation - Euibin Kim, David Paige, UCLA
AI Interpolated Drive - Lior Rubanenko, Emily Cardarelli, Justin Maki, David Paige, UCLA, California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA.

Music: Epidemic Sound

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[anar]

So we will not hear "Meanwhile... Ingenuity..." in the videos anymore 🥺. Heartbreaking for anyone following this beautiful journey. Though it now cannot soar up to the sky, Ingenuity leaves behind a legacy that echoes across the annals of human achievement.

[billthomas]

No janky editing, no speeded up run-on breathless commentary, no tiresome heavily recycled stock footage. Thank you for the excellence.

[default-]

Even though it's just a drone, what makes it so sad is all the hard work, dedication and memories compacted in one tiny two blade helicopter, served it's mission in excess. RIP Ingenuity.

[thebestmatthewschannel]

humanity loves you ingenuity, hopefully we can come back for you one day.

[td]

Considering the fact that even one flight wasn't guaranteed, I would say "no" to tears of mourning and "yes" to a celebration of life and accomplishments to both the engineers and the little copter.😊

[badash]

Fair well Ingenuity. What a brave little helicopter

[headownMH]

feeling sad over a drone on another planet feels weird 😔
rip ingenuity

[panduno]

Not ashamed of saying I cried fot the lost of this little guy. You did it well my friend, you did it really well.

[Christin]

I am amazed what can be done from Earth to make things work on Mars. What a great time we are living in.

[xxthesarcasm]

The fact that it can send back this type of high-quality images all the way from Mars is just mind-blowing. I mean, look at the resolution. It really is jaw-dropping. Beautiful stuff, man!

[FrankieAngels]

Why doesn’t Matt Damon just fix it with duct tape?

[FinkipGirl]

Babe wake up, a new episode elderfox documentary of Perseverance just dropped!

[altonyoung]

Those propellers should've been unbreakable😡

[megadawg]

The purple surface looks vitrified, ...melted. It would take a pretty hot and fast blast to do that. I had tears in my eyes. Well done.

[Reg_The_Galah]

Damn, I didn’t prepare myself for the feels. Rip little helicopter, it won’t be the same without…

[TaylanEkinci]

Thanks ingenuity and Thank you, heroes who do science for humanity. We are grateful to you.

[bearing]

Thank you for your service Ginny! We are proud of you!!

[brokendad]

Farewell to Ingenuity, the little helicopter that could.

[Denzamusic]

Mars looks breathtaking, both visually and literally. Imagine all the atars during the night that can be seen there.

[Oswaldfiveo]

What an awesome video! Just found you. Thank you!!!