Love to the mars rovers family!
Haven't seen anything about Ingenuity on tumblr yet, so I guess I'll make a post about it
Ingenuity (sometimes called Ginny) was an companion craft to Perseverance, one of the rovers currently on Mars. As opposed to any of the past rovers, however, Ingenuity was a rotorcraft intended to fly above Mars' surface.
After landing on Mars in February of 2021 and completing its first flight on April 19th, 2021, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to fly on another planet. Its original goal was only 5 flights, but it well surpassed that number, logging 72 flights with over two hours of in-air time.
On January 18th, 2024, Ingenuity lost contact with Perseverance midway through a flight, and a few days later, NASA had confirmation that the rotors were damaged, leaving Ingenuity incapable of flight.
So long, Ingenuity. You did so much <3
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still my fave after all this time...
Card Captor Sakura | Clear Card 64
it has been like at least eight years and sometimes I still think to myself, when I am tired, “but I am le tired… well then take a nap! AND THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES” even though in retrospect that is like one of the most embarrassingly unfunny videos to ever come out of the internet
I never bought a small pen maker #fountainpen before. Came across @luckystarpens and saw this amazing design and homage to one of the most recently amazing space tech feats for the @jameswebb_nasa telescope. I reached out and was lucky to snag one of the last ones on hand. Currently inked with Pelikan purple and it writes smooth! Thanks to Lauren for bringing out such a cool pen to life 😎 https://www.instagram.com/p/CoIId1yOQxL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=