NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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Dust Storm in Jezero: Images taken at the same time, but 11 Sols apart. Note the softening shadows in the image. This does not bode well for the solar powered helicopter. Credits James Sorenson (lemmy.world)

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[–] mipadaitu 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The broken helicopter? It already lost a rotor and is no longer functional.

[–] paulhammond5155 12 points 6 months ago

It may not be able to fly, but it is far from fully broken.... It has returned a huge number of images since its last flight, as well as data. They hoped to continue to get data right up until the rover left the crater, but a bad sandstorm could prevent that