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Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Wilshire to c/space
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[โ€“] wabafee 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I suspect the sandy wind either from flight start up, landing, or from the environment probably grinded the blades eventually resulting to this. Still it's impressive that it lasted this long and let's not forget that this thing runs in Linux. Hurray for Linux!

[โ€“] Wilshire 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was wondering if the blade failure caused the emergency landing, or the emergency landing caused the blade failure.

[โ€“] AtmaJnana 5 points 11 months ago

A little of column A and a little of column B.