Ingenuity completes 56th flight on Mars
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According to a tweet yesterday by the Ingenuity engineering team, the helicopter successfully completed its 56th flight on Mars on August 25, 2023, flying 1,345 feet to the northwest at a height of 39 feet for 141 seconds, or two minutes and twenty-one seconds. The distance traveled and the flight time were slightly longer than planned, but that likely was because the helicopter used that extra time to determine a safe landing site.
The green line on the map above shows the approximate new position of Ingenuity, positioned close to the planned route of Perseverance as indicated by the red dotted line. Perseverance’s present location is marked by the blue dot.
Neretva Vallis is the gap in the western rim of Jezero crater through which the delta had flowed eons before, and is the rover’s eventual target in order to begin exploring the terrain beyond, known to be very rich in mineral content.
Meanwhile, the Ingenuity engineering team has already released its flight plan for the 57th flight, heading north about 670 feet and targeting tomorrow for flight.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Click for interactive map.
According to a tweet yesterday by the Ingenuity engineering team, the helicopter successfully completed its 56th flight on Mars on August 25, 2023, flying 1,345 feet to the northwest at a height of 39 feet for 141 seconds, or two minutes and twenty-one seconds. The distance traveled and the flight time were slightly longer than planned, but that likely was because the helicopter used that extra time to determine a safe landing site.
The green line on the map above shows the approximate new position of Ingenuity, positioned close to the planned route of Perseverance as indicated by the red dotted line. Perseverance’s present location is marked by the blue dot.
Neretva Vallis is the gap in the western rim of Jezero crater through which the delta had flowed eons before, and is the rover’s eventual target in order to begin exploring the terrain beyond, known to be very rich in mineral content.
Meanwhile, the Ingenuity engineering team has already released its flight plan for the 57th flight, heading north about 670 feet and targeting tomorrow for flight.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I will proba¨bly be pestering our poor Robert here with some evening entertainment links to podcasters who do amazing things in steel cutting engineering, and art for that matter. Because I am discovering some pretty fabulous stuff in that genre as my recent story is that I’ve been unemployed since the covid [deleted] story. I were an economist as in business administration, into logistics so more the numbers guy than most business guys, but less so than any engineering guy. Stuck in the middle, and that’s never good. One has to be best at something.
So now, even at mature age, I am being retrained into metal cutting. Perhaps one can see some parallel to the Great Power politics concerning sanctions and rearmament in the background there. Anyway, I think it is mostly because the guys who did this job before are entering retirement age and that’s why there’s a pretty deasperate demand for new labor even in a shrinking European manufacturing industry.
But what do I care for the big picture? I get to learn how to cut steel, and that’s great fun! School learns me the fine stuff using small machines. But I might soon get a job at a company that is mass manufacturing two meter diameter large, decimeter thick and some tons heavy cones made out of mangan steel, Hadfield steel, used to crush rocks. Pretty much the heaviest steel industry there is. And that gives me a hard on! In a 150 year old factory building built out of red clay bricks once put by hand into beautiful patterns, in the center of a small town where in one end the raw metal is molten and cast to in the other end finally be paint coated and delivered. And somewhere inbetween my task would be to operate a huge machine that cuts the sloping surface to within 0.03 angular degrees precision, I heard. All of this is completely new to me, and I love learning new stuff! And I love big heavy hard thingies that crush granite.
Here’s btw a short illustration of how hollow steel spheres are made. Out of some soft ductile steel alloy, of course and not hard Hadfield steel. One welds together some steel plates to a polygon, fills it with water and, well, does what is looks and sounds like here:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pm6hM77JD3w
(Steel is a crazy industry)!
LocalFluff: As you know, I very much welcome your comments. Always worthwhile and informative.
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