NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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Ingenuity images the shadow of its damaged rotor blade - End of great mission. (lemmy.world)

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[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The combination of technologies that made this possible is really mind bending.

Without a human ever setting foot on Mars, we can identify and solve the physics of flight in a new atmosphere on the first try.

The idea of a drone that can swim below the ice in the oceans of Europa doesn't seem that far fetched any more.

[–] AmIConcious@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Except that radio communications below water don't propagate very well.

[–] Metans@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, just used a wired connection then

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

"Leave a little slack in the line to account for the different orbital periods. Yeah, about 300,000,000 miles ahould do it..."

[–] Batman@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

I had a really long Lan cable that let us play in different rooms. It's buried in a closet, but if nasa really needs it I could dig that out