NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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2 short helicopter flights planned, the 1st is today and another tomorrow. It looks like the heli maybe on unstable ground (after flight 64) as one leg sank into the sand and there was some movement. (lemmy.world)

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links to the plans

65: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/493/flight-65-preview-by-the-numbers/

66: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/494/flight-66-preview-by-the-numbers/

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[–] Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow, nearing 2 hours of flight time.

[–] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The duration of both flight 65 and 66 are just over 1 minute, so we'll still be just under two hours by this time on November 2nd (JPL time zone). If after conjunction flight 67 is a scouting, or relocation flight, we should rotate the hour meter enough to reach that milestone. However, they could choose to a short hop for 67 to blow off any dust that settled in the 3 weeks of so it was standing down. Time will tell, but I'm looking forward to passing the 2 hour mark before the end of the year :)