El Floppo
Footballguy
good question about the battery. IIRC, they chose this section because it was flat without much of a debris field... giving ginny it's best chance to do its thing without tripping. I think coming back to the same spot might be about having Percy filming it... so that they just have to set Percy up once to get the optimal shot...maybe?Very cool, but why not get Ginny to land someplace else? Didn't want to risk it? Also I wonder what the on board? flight time is with the batteries onboard? Don't want to drain too much cuz of the stupid dust storms that can block out the sun necessary for solar recharging.Ingenuity then came back to its take-off spot, for a total flight time of 80 seconds.
today's flight was also supposed to go faster than the previous two. hopefully that worked out. they say they'd only tested ginny's lateral flying a couple of feet on earth because they were doing it in a vacuum chamber. this was their first "real" flight of consequence and why the 2nd flight 5 meters each way was so important, if short.