Ingenuity: NASA's Mars helicopter makes it three from three

Re:Ingenuity: NASA's Mars helicopter makes it three from three by carlosdp on Sunday April 25, 2021 @07:22PM (#26937678)

The copter won't last very long on the Martian surface. It's using non-radiation protected hardware (which allows the software to be much more advanced that what we'd typically send to the planet).

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Re:Ingenuity: NASA's Mars helicopter makes it three from three by zarzavat on Sunday April 25, 2021 @11:49PM (#26939085)

I'm curious what kind of permanent damage radiation causes to hardware? We hear about cosmic rays flipping bits in non-ECC RAM but that would generally be fixed by a reboot.

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Re:Ingenuity: NASA's Mars helicopter makes it three from three by throwawayboise on Monday April 26, 2021 @12:02AM (#26939154)

I guess maybe bits will get flipped in the saved program code and operating systems also? Thus rendering the device inoperable since there's no way to perform a reformat/reinstall

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