Beautiful work.

If I've ever seen a place where one should not walk around barefoot, this is it.

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In the hindsight department, it might have been nice to have brush attachment on the deck that could be picked up by the grapple on the arm and used to brush off the panels. But there might be good reasons why that wouldn't have been feasible either.
John

NASA Zeroing in on Path Forward for Lucy Solar Array (8 Dec)

Looking back.

The Navcam R view on Sol 3299.

Jan van Driel

MahFL, see post #351 from PaulH51 (above)

The discussion of the route south starts at 28:30 of the video: Science route (zone) south
Here is a screen shot. I added the 1 mile long bar. The length of the red-marked zone was said to be a little more than a mile. Also stated was that the science campaign in this area, including sample collection, would last several hundred sols. So a year or more before the rover heads toward the delta.

Not to rain on the parade, but it is easy to conceive of limits. While I predict many upcoming powerpoint presentations that will profess to indicate the feasibility of scaled-up Mars helicopters, and possibly even address the basics of disk loading and specific power, I expect that once you get into the details, the issues of aeroelasticity and motor heat rejection will show anything more than a factor of 2 or 3 more massive or longer-endurance than Ingenuity to be impractical.

In the shadow picture, why the heck is the shadow of the body/solar panel and legs black, but the shadow of the rotor blades is a lighter tone? The blades don't appear to be translucent.

John

Wow for the shadow picture. I'm curious about the 'shutter' speed, and can't find a relevant answer.

Andy