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Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter (arstechnica.com)

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Further confirmation of blade loss

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How much ground did Perseverance have to cover to get to Ingenuity? I thought the drone was always far ahead of the rover, which moves at a turtle's pace at best.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Flight 72 was during Sol 1036. During Sol 1036 the rover was stationed at site 49.370 (E 4348233.930, N1096134.251) the point to point distance to where it is now is 693.85 meters (2276.41 ft).

However the traverse to reach the current location contained a few loops and science waypoints, so the total drive distance was 1,117.31 meters (3665.7 ft).

The point to point distance between the rover and the helicopter at this time is 416.55 meters (1366.62 ft)