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muriel_volestrangler

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2. Perseverance has better things to do than act as a communications relay for a damaged drone

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 07:30 PM

Dec 2024

Perseverance is the main mission; Ingenuity was one experiment. They wouldn't want to divert Perseverance just to see what the low-function Ingenuity can now record, when there are several more important experiments on Perseverance.

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After crashing on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter could live on as a weather station for 20 years (maybe not) [View all] eppur_se_muova Dec 2024 OP

Could they make the copter hop? To keep closer to Perserverance. Or get to a height for longer signal? Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2024 #1

Perseverance has better things to do than act as a communications relay for a damaged drone muriel_volestrangler Dec 2024 #2