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#Mars: Sounds of the winds of Mars recorded by Perseverance. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#Mars: Sounds of the winds of Mars recorded by Perseverance. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/perseverance-records-sound-of-dust-devil/

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0:00.0

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Slack.com slash DHQ. This is CBS Eye on the World from the surface of the planet Earth

0:38.3

to the surface of the planet Mars. Brave ingenuity, the flying toaster. Bob Zimmerman is here to

0:44.4

introduce us to another successful venture for the flying toaster. Bob, what is ingenuity

0:51.7

doing now? What is its mission profile given that it can take off and fly? What was

0:56.1

it? 46 feet high? It's showing all the time that it's inventing Martian flight.

1:03.1

Yeah, well, they completed the 36th flight, which was essentially the previous flight, the

1:09.3

35th that set an altitude record of 46 feet. That flight was the second flight using their

1:15.8

new upgraded software. It's allows you to go over roughly terrain and obviously fly higher.

1:21.2

They did a 36th flight last weekend and that flight basically went out a certain distance

1:27.3

about 180 feet and then turned around and came back and landed back where it took off.

1:31.9

That was to test once again these new software, of X-Roid, could really do exactly what it

1:36.3

says it's going to do. That was a success. What are they doing? They're not preparing

1:40.9

for the 37th flight, which is supposed to occur this coming weekend. They're basically

1:49.5

going to move a horizontal distance, a larger, harder, horizontal distance. In this time,

1:55.2

reposition the helicopter. They're not clear about where it's going to move, but they

1:59.1

want to stay close to perseverance. Perseverance has been swallowing working its way back towards

2:05.8

ingenuity as it studies the cliff face of the delta that flowed into GZero Crata.

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