Mars Helicopter went silent for six Sols, imperilled Perseverance rover, too
NASA has detailed a six-day stretch during which it could not contact its Ingenuity Mars helicopter.chief engineer Travis Brown explained that after the copter’s 49th flight, radio contact was lost for six sols – just short of six hours and six days of terrestrial time.
But once Perseverance moved to another location and Ingenuity still could not be found, Brown wrote “the situation began to generate some unease.” But the signal received on that day, sol 761, was just a simple ACK. The next day, the copter again acknowledged a command, but did little else. While NASA folk figured that out, Perseverance moved towards its next goal – but that created new problems.
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