paulhammond5155@lemmy.world to NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoIngenuity images the shadow of its damaged rotor blade - End of great mission.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down12
arrow-up1156arrow-down1imageIngenuity images the shadow of its damaged rotor blade - End of great mission.lemmy.worldpaulhammond5155@lemmy.world to NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squarenucleative@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·7 months agoThe combination of technologies that made this possible is really mind bending. Without a human ever setting foot on Mars, we can identify and solve the physics of flight in a new atmosphere on the first try. The idea of a drone that can swim below the ice in the oceans of Europa doesn’t seem that far fetched any more.
minus-squareAmIConcious@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoExcept that radio communications below water don’t propagate very well.
minus-squareMetans@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoWell, just used a wired connection then
The combination of technologies that made this possible is really mind bending.
Without a human ever setting foot on Mars, we can identify and solve the physics of flight in a new atmosphere on the first try.
The idea of a drone that can swim below the ice in the oceans of Europa doesn’t seem that far fetched any more.
Except that radio communications below water don’t propagate very well.
Well, just used a wired connection then