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No it's not - firstly, you can go to JPL's version of the story here and see how they lead with the same headline: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-mars-hel
by spuz 6y ago
No it's not - firstly, you can go to JPL's version of the story here and see how they lead with the same headline:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-mars-helicopter-survives-first-cold-martian-night-on-its-own https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-mars-helicopter-survives...
But I prefer to hear it directly from the engineers involved:
> "What was it like seeing that first image of Ingenuity on mars?"
> "Oh it was a dream come true. To see the culmination of the entire team's hard work really pay off. Being dropped - that's one huge milestone, but the massive one for us over the last few days has been realising not only did we drop, but we actually survived the first night. That is huge. That was one of the huge huge achievements that we've been looking forward to and now we can look forward to the rest of the mission. But being able to drop under our own energy, sustain ourselves, keep ourselves warm through the whole night and then wake up and talk with Perseverance and say "yep we're here alive and healthy" the team couldn't be happier."
https://youtu.be/PcpI8-S5ZE8?t=108 https://youtu.be/PcpI8-S5ZE8?t=108