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, Ingenuity's surprisingly-long lifespan will make its final transmission, whenever it comes, that much more bittersweet., "there will be a mixture of emotions — sadness that such an exceptional spacecraft has reached the end of its journey, but also triumph in that Ingenuity opened a new paradigm in Mars exploration."noted, designed as an experiment into whether such a tiny and high-tech robot could survive Mars' notoriously thin atmosphere at all.
Much of Ingenuity's worth lies in the fundamental things it can do that terrestrial rovers cannot, chief of which being that it can fly and take high-resolution photos while the Perseverance Rover can only move on the ground. In doing so, Ingenuity has shown the way for the Rover in ways JPL drivers on Earth could not.
What was planned as a "what-if" experiment turned into an important complement for Perseverance, an article inAnd what's more, the researchers who have worked with Ingenuity have become very attached to the little rotorcraft on an emotional level.. "We didn’t know we were going to love it." As the publication pointed out, Ingenuity's timeline has been repeatedly extended, first from 30 days to a few months, and now indefinitely. That's been "a big surprise," Olivier said.
Extended missions are nothing new for the JPL, the rover driver noted, but the limits of Ingenuity's design mean that it could last for months or years more — or"Ingenuity's achievements cannot be overstated, and it will be remembered as one of the great pioneering vessels of all time," Hamilton told. "One day, Ingenuity will make its last flight on the Red Planet, but it will not be the last aircraft to fly on Mars — it's just the beginning.
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