Mars Ingenuity helicopter accident investigation reveals likely cause of crash

The helicopter flew for the final time in Jan. 2024.

[Delta-V-Heavy]

Designed to fly *up to* 5 times; crashed on flight 72. Rest well, Ginny, you little over-achiever; you’ve more than earned it. Godspeed, and thank you.

[josephwarren]

Goodbye little friend. Thank you for the images,

[Darx]

poor thing, it did its job amazingly tho

[bobjackson]

"Unscheduled, unintended rapid removal of propulsion device causing massive imbalance of rotor" .
Sorry to hear little chopper. You did well. Thank you.

[AngelMass]

It's not all over for it yet, all systems and sensors are fine. So they have it collect weather data while is stationary. They also said its battery power theorical limit is 20 years

[SimonThomson]

How did that photograph of the helicopter on Mars get taken? It looks like it’s taken from 30metres in the air?!?

[mattdugan]

Wouldn’t they put rotor guards on the thing like they should have put solar panel brushes on the spirit and opportunity rovers? Maybe I’m trippin.

[ge]

I'm supposed to be terrified of drones and helicopters now, right?

[NPCBOT]

plot twist - mars was where everyone was at and went to earth after they destroyed the atmosphere

[Wadethewallaby]

This investigation will teach us how to safely maneuver on Mars, especially in hard conditions for algorithms, but with the increasing numbers of artificial intelligence back home on earth, we should be able to have artificial intelligence on a new helicopter that would distinguish what the surface looks like better.

[ManaBDew]

Still a breakthrough Godspeed sincerely Team earth 🌎 🎉

[briannewcombe]

the cause of the crash is that it was engineered by a woman. they never cover all the bases. they want to build it, take recognition, and not take the blame for lazy failure

[mattdugan]

Wouldn’t they put rotor guards on the thing like they should have put solar panel brushes on the spirit and opportunity rovers? Maybe I’m trippin.