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How did the prop tip get damaged like that? Did it crash into something?

• junon 3y ago
  Most likely. > Communication with Ingenuity was lost again at the end of the 72nd flight on January 18, 2024. JPL regained contact on January 20. Not an expert here but I assume the loss of contact was caused by some crash or something.
• prismic 3y ago
  They mentioned during the media briefing that the terrain they were flying in were featureless, which is extremely challenging for it to determine where it's at, and thus it's possible that it misidentified some aspect of the terrain and caused this. Unfortunately because communication was lost when it landed, the flight data was lost, so we will never know for sure what happened.
  • Dylan16807 3y ago
    It doesn't save flight data until it receives confirmation of download?
    • foobarbecue 3y ago
      During flight, high-rate flight data is written to volatile RAM, and 1HZ data is telemetered to Perseverance. The high-rate data is not written to disk until landing, because writing to disk is slow and CPU-intensive. There was a brownout during or just before landing, and sadly that meant the high-rate telemetry data was lost because it was never written to disk. And by "disk" I mean non-volatile flash memory.
      • Dylan16807 3y ago
        Okay, so we do have a subset of the flight data. Thanks for the info.
        • foobarbecue 3y ago
          Yes, and the team is vigorously studying the 1HZ data leading up to the brownout.