Follow us on Twitter (opens in new tab) or Facebook. Follow him on Twitter (opens in new tab). It consists of 2 megapixels (image size of 1600 x 1200 pixels) and it’s main job is to take panoramic color images of the surface, atmosphere and terrain ahead of it. The rover has several cameras attached to it and the Mastcam is the one most similar to that of consumer digital cameras. Mike Wall is the author of " Out There (opens in new tab) " (Grand Central Publishing, 2018 illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. The Curiosity rover has taken 10’s of thousands of images since it’s been on the surface of Mars exposing 1000’s of Mars anomalies. See you on the other side of conjunction!" "We will receive this data on Earth once we come out of conjunction, and will learn how Ingenuity performs over an extended period of relative inactivity on Mars. "Ingenuity will not be completely idle during this time, however Ingenuity and Perseverance will be configured to keep each other company by communicating roughly once a week, with Ingenuity sending basic system health information to its base station on Perseverance," Karras wrote. Our star can corrupt and otherwise interfere with communications sent between the two planets, so NASA has stopped sending commands to Ingenuity and its other Red Planet robots - including Ingenuity's much larger partner, the Perseverance rover- until mid-October, when Mars will come more clearly into view. Mars is now in "solar conjunction," meaning it's on the other side of the sun from Earth. "We have a number of tools available for working through the anomaly, and we're optimistic that we'll get past it and back to flying again soon."īut orbital dynamics will keep Ingenuity grounded for a couple more weeks at least. 23, however, "so the issue isn’t entirely repeatable," Karras wrote. Ingenuity passed two additional servo wiggle tests on Sept. Soar over Mars with NASA's helicopter Ingenuity on its 12th flight (video)
In photos: NASA's Mars Perseverance rover mission to the Red Planet
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