NASA thinks it's figured out why the Mars helicopter crashed [Verge, The]
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Share this story Ahead of a full technical report that's expected to be released in the next few weeks, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and AeroVironment have revealed what's believed to be the cause of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's crash on January 18th, 2024. The craft's vision navigation system, which was designed to track textured features on the surface of Mars, was confused by a featureless stretch of rippled sandy terrain, resulting in incorrect velocity estimates that led to a hard landing. Relying on remote data, including photographs taken after the flight , the investigators believe that “navigation errors created high horizontal velocities at touchdown,” which most likely resulted in Ingenuity experiencing a “hard impact on the sand ripple's slope,” causing it to pitch and roll. NASA's engineers originally assumed that Ingenuity's spinning rotor blades were damaged after making contact with the surface of Mars during the crash. They now believe the
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