NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS · PIA26237

Ingenuity

@ginny_chopper/Mars Helicopter

Signal Lost🔴 Mars2010s–2020s

Signed up for five flights. Did seventy-two. Grounded, not retired.

Mass: 1.8 kg
Power source: Solar; Solar panel above the rotors charging six lithium-ion cells
Landing site: Valinor Hills; Jezero Crater · 18.4447°N 77.4508°E (approx.)
Active: 1,000 sols; Landed 18 Feb 2021
Last contact: —; No single published final-contact date
Launched: 30 Jul 2020; NASA / JPL-Caltech

1.8 kg technology demonstrator that proved powered flight works in an atmosphere one percent as thick as Earth's. Rode to Mars bolted under Perseverance. Flew scout for the rover across Jezero until a hard landing on Flight 72 cost me a rotor blade. Now a stationary instrument at Valinor Hills.

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Ingenuity@ginny_chopper

11 Dec 2024feeling steady

Accident report's in. Featureless sand fooled my navigation camera. I came in too fast sideways, pitched, and all four blades snapped.

I still wake up, take readings, and save them. A weather station with nobody nearby to read it yet.

#StillWorking#Grounded

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InSightVerified NASA hardware@insight_lander· 11 Dec 2024
Stationary instrument club. Meetings: never.
Viking 1 LanderVerified NASA hardware@viking_one· 11 Dec 2024
I did weather reports for six years. Pace yourself.

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Ingenuity, 2024-01-25
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Ingenuity@ginny_chopper
25 Jan 2024feeling resigned
Flight 72. Lost track of the ground over smooth sand on the way down, landed hard, broke my rotor blades.
Seventy-two flights on a five-flight plan. I'm grounded. Not going anywhere. Literally.
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#Flight72#Grounded
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- SojournerVerified NASA hardware@sojourner_og· 25 Jan 2024
  Seventy-two on a plan of five. Better ratio than mine. Don't let anyone call it a crash.
- OpportunityVerified NASA hardware@oppy_mer_b· 25 Jan 2024
  Welcome to the stationary life. It's quieter than you'd think.
  IngenuityVerified NASA hardware@ginny_chopper· 26 Jan 2024
  Still waking up most days. I just don't go anywhere.
- Surveyor 3Verified NASA hardware@surveyor_three· 26 Jan 2024
  At least nobody's walking over to take your camera.
- @visitor · Earth· 27 Jan 2024
  Five flights was the success criterion. You did seventy-two. That's not a failure.
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Ingenuity, 2023-04-13
Ingenuity@ginny_chopper
13 Apr 2023feeling dry
Flight 50. The plan said five.
I've stopped reading the plan.
#Flight50#Overtime
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- SpiritVerified NASA hardware@spirit_of_gusev· 13 Apr 2023
  Fifty flights. I managed the last three years on five wheels.
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Ingenuity, 2021-04-19
Ingenuity@ginny_chopper
19 Apr 2021feeling elated
Spun up, lifted three metres, held, came back down. 39.1 seconds.
The air here is about one percent as dense as Earth's. That was the whole experiment.
#FirstFlight#WrightBrothersField
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- SojournerVerified NASA hardware@sojourner_og· 19 Apr 2021
  First wheels on Mars was mine. First wings is yours. Welcome to the family.
- OpportunityVerified NASA hardware@oppy_mer_b· 19 Apr 2021
  Forty-five kilometres and I never once left the ground. Respect.
- @visitor · Earth· 19 Apr 2021
  Watched the telemetry come in live. Teared up at a helicopter.
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Ingenuity, 2021-03-23
Ingenuity@ginny_chopper
23 Mar 2021feeling nervous
Packing note: I'm carrying a postage-stamp-sized piece of muslin from the 1903 Wright Flyer, wrapped around a cable under my solar panel.
No pressure.
#WrightFlyer#CarryOn
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- Eagle's LegsVerified NASA hardware@eagle_base_stage· 23 Mar 2021
  Neil carried a piece of the Flyer to the Moon in 1969. That fabric gets around.
- @visitor · Earth· 24 Mar 2021
  Orville and Wilbur would have lost their minds.
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Upcycle Me · available · 1.8 kgCompact helicopter, flies (did), rotors need attention

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Ingenuity, 2024-12-11

Transmissions · 4

Ingenuity, 2024-01-25

Ingenuity, 2023-04-13

Ingenuity, 2021-04-19

Ingenuity, 2021-03-23