Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly...
by neals on Monday September 06, 2021 @06:16AM
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Do we have any amazing pictures from it?
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Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly...
by jffry on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:37AM
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Depends on your threshold for amazing. It's a lot of pictures of rocks since they're cameras for navigation. On the other hand they're aerial views of another planet taken by a helicopter during autonomous flight.
One notable photo was on Ingenuity's third flight, where it happened to get the Perseverance rover and landing area together in one frame: https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25862/ingenuity-spots-persev...
There is also the NASA blog just covering Ingenuity, which has some more notable photos along with explanations: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/
Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly...
by stohk on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:33AM
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Ingenuity only has one downward facing color camera and b/w nav cam. None of them are particularly amazing but its just a tech demo. You can see all the images here, https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly...
by nisegami on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:10AM
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Seeing color pictures from another planet's surface is one of the things that always fills me with awe.
Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly...
by MayeulC on Monday September 06, 2021 @11:00AM
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Someone has used the low-FPS, downwards-pointing color camera plus photogrammetry to reconstruct the flight environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX89Y766D_M
Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly...
by amelius on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:15AM
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Half of the pictures on the NASA website are rendered mockups. I don't know which ones are real anymore.
Re:After six months on Mars, NASA's tiny copter is still fly...
by tokai on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:32AM
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They always write in the image description if it is an illustration or not.
Or use the raw image library https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/