#MARS: Ingenuity #57! Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 9 September 2023
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#MARS: Ingenuity #57! Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/ingenuity-flies-on-completing-its-57th-flight/
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| 0:00.0 | On John Baxter with Bob Zimmerman who keeps the website behind the black were on the surface |
| 0:08.6 | of Mars now and again with ingenuity. |
| 0:11.3 | What is it accomplished this brave little flying toaster? |
| 0:13.8 | It's completed, it's 57th flight, ho-hum, you know, this is like an airline and now, I'm |
| 0:22.0 | not really, but it's pretty spectacular, so I've got a map on behind the black showing |
| 0:26.0 | where engineering now is relative to perseverance. |
| 0:29.7 | It's essentially following the plan throughout the perseverance is going to go, so it can |
| 0:33.6 | give ground information for the perseverance engineers for moving the rover forward. |
| 0:41.6 | This flight also corresponded with a very high resolution panorama that perseverance created |
| 0:47.6 | looking forward to where it's going to go, so you not only can see with the rover and |
| 0:53.5 | helicopter on the ground, but you can see the eventual goal down the road with this |
| 0:58.0 | boss, John. |
| 0:59.0 | It's going to be quite fun. |
| 1:00.0 | They're going to go into a gap in a mountain jay. |
| 1:02.2 | Moxie is a superstar. |
| 1:04.0 | Why Bob? |
| 1:05.0 | Moxie is an engineering test instrument on perseverance designed to see if it would be possible |
| 1:11.8 | for to use the carbon dioxide in atmosphere of Mars to produce oxygen for breathing |
| 1:19.0 | and impossible fuel. |
| 1:20.6 | Moxie has done 16 different runs and has demonstrated unequivocally that it can do this and |
| 1:27.0 | provide enough oxygen for humans to survive on Mars. |
| 1:30.6 | You'd often bring an oxygen with you. |
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