NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has seen its last days of flight — but its friend, the Perseverance rover, hasn’t said goodbye just yet.
Originally published earlier this month by NASA, the grainy raw images of Ingenuity sitting sadly in the sand ripples of Mars’ Neretva Vallis river valley, cleaned up images of the little chopper that could were posted by German design student Simeon Schmauss on on X-formerly-Twitter and Flickr.
The enhanced displays, as Schmauss explained, were created when he pasted together six of the raw images, zoomed in on Ingenuity, and altered the image’s colors “to approximately match what the human eye would see.”
Ingenuity came to rest on a pretty steep slope. It’s possible she may have tipped over, so the blades contacted the ground during landing. pic.twitter.com/XPr6lh1UjC
— Simeon Schmauß (@stim3on) February 5, 2024
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Last month, NASA announced that the four-pound flyer, which was the first craft ever to fly on another world, had suffered ultimately fatal damage to its rotor blades as it flew its 72nd and final journey on the Red Planet. As the designer posited in his thread, it could be that Ingenuity took a tumble from the steep slope where it landed and majorly damaged its blades in the process.
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