NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has flown its last mission over Mars.
It feels like it was only last week that we wrote about Ingenuity having issues….well….because it was. In our January 22, 2024 issue we wrote about how NASA had briefly lost contact with its Ingenuity Mars helicopter, only to reestablish contact with it after instructing the Perseverance rover “to perform long-duration listening sessions for Ingenuity’s signal.”
Now about a week later there’s news that one of Ingenuity’s rotor blades was damaged during a hard landing, and the helicopter will never fly again.
#sadface
In all seriousness, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter was an insanely creative and daring piece of tech, and its mission was audacious; which isn’t something we get to say about NASA very much these days.
So my hat’s off to the entire Mars Ingenuity helicopter team over at NASA for doing an amazing job.
You will be missed Ingenuity.
