#Mars: Ingenuity emerges robust from the long Martian winter -- ready to soar. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 16 February 2023
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#Mars: Ingenuity emerges robust from the long Martian winter -- ready to soar. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/winter-finally-ends-for-ingenuity/
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| 0:55.3 | Ingenuity is a craft that was meant to be an experiment. |
| 0:59.4 | Can you fly in the atmosphere of Mars? |
| 1:02.3 | It attached itself to the wonder of perseverance, |
| 1:05.2 | which is continuing on its mission to sample and prepare samples for return in a subsequent mission. |
| 1:12.0 | But ingenuity, after its first initial flights, was at the end of its original mission statement, |
| 1:19.5 | or not, so I learned from Bob that ingenuity is still flying after more than 40 flights, |
| 1:26.8 | is now coming to the end of winter. |
| 1:28.8 | What does this mean for ingenuity Bob? |
| 1:31.6 | The chief engineer of ingenuity posted today a very, very nice detailed description of the last |
| 1:40.6 | difficult eight months for ingenuity on Mars. |
| 1:44.1 | Sometime in May of 22, winter began on Mars, and because the years, |
| 1:49.6 | the years, two years, two years long, the seasons are more than six months long each, |
| 1:56.0 | they're much longer than on Earth. |
| 1:57.6 | So when winter began in May of 22, ingenuity was faced with significant power problems. |
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