7 ms·
I just interned at the NASA office (at Ames) that designed large chunks of and did a lot of flight planning / analysis for Ingenuity. It had some really awesome
by synapsomorphy 3y ago
I just interned at the NASA office (at Ames) that designed large chunks of and did a lot of flight planning / analysis for Ingenuity. It had some really awesome people behind it and its success inspired a number of new Mars rotorcraft missions (rotorcraft will be an integral part of Mars Sample Return). Flight is going to be a huge part of future solar system exploration efforts and Ingenuity paved the way.
o7
- contact9879 3y agoIsn't Mars Sample Return pretty much dead at this point?
- rockemsockem 3y agoWhy do you say that?
- pvaldes 3y agoIt depends on sample location. After discovering patches of water ice, the planet is more interesting than ever.
- synapsomorphy 3y agoI contributed to the helicopter design for it so I'm biased but I think it'll happen eventually even if the funding isn't approved this administration/year/decade. The already-stashed samples will be up there basically forever, and we'll probably want samples from a few different areas anyways, so it makes sense to go grab them.
- ugh123 3y agoI hope the development of the MAV will bring us closer to building launch vehicles capable of getting humans off Mars. Seems like the MAV is preloaded with fuel and pretty small but should provide some good data for future missions. https://mars.nasa.gov/msr/#Ascent-Vehicle https://mars.nasa.gov/msr/#Ascent-Vehicle
- dcsommer 3y agoMars has weather, unlike the moon. Will the samples really still be there a decade or two from now?
- onepointsixC 3y agoThe samples are meant to survive the vacuum of space but can't handle some weather? That seems unlikely.
- robertlagrant 3y agoHow erosive is the vacuum of space meant to be?
- timschmidt 3y agoYou mean that place that smells of burnt metal and is full of hard radiation? Surface of Mars is definitely more hospitable.
- iancmceachern 3y agoNot less erosive though.
- BuildTheRobots 3y ago> Overall, astronauts often compare the smell of space to "hot metal, burnt meat, burnt cakes, spent gunpowder and welding of metal," according to Steve Pearce, a biochemist and CEO of Omega Ingredients, who combed through astronaut interviews to help him craft a NASA-commissioned scent: https://www.livescience.com/space/what-does-space-smell-like https://www.livescience.com/space/what-does-space-smell-like Guess I'm one of today's 10,000.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoThey made a perfume of it. https://eaudespace.com/ https://eaudespace.com/
- mturmon 3y agoNo. It's probably better to think of the multi-mission MSR "campaign" as being reformulated to be lower cost and complexity.
- qwertox 3y ago> o7 I never came across this emoticon, but with what you wrote, its meaning became clear immediately. It's perfect.
- farnsworth 3y agoSame, I thought I was terminally online but I've never seen this before.
- closewith 3y agoOh, God, these comments may be the trigger to my mid-life crisis.
- zilti 3y agoIf it's any consolation, it's been around since the 90s
- whamlastxmas 3y agoI remember being a terminally online teen thinking i would never fall out of “what’s hip” bc i enjoyed being online so much at the time. I have since never once installed or used TikTok and I have no idea what’s happening I am sure
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- Angostura 3y agoSee it quite a lot in Twitch chat
- notso411 3y agoorz
- amatecha 3y ago