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NASA’s much-vaunted Mars helicopter Ingenuity suffered a navigation timing error that sent it into a tailspin over the Martian surface during its recent flight.

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NASAs Mars helicopter Ingenuity faced a navigation timing error during its sixth flight and went on a wild, lurching ride. This was its first major problem since it took to the Martian skies last month.

Ingenuity's sixth flight was planned as one of its most daring excursions to date, programmed to travel over 700 feet in total and take aerial photos of Mars.

28 MAY 2021 During its sixth flight on the red planet, the Ingenuity helicopter experienced a little mishap - but, thanks to planning and built-in failsafes, it survived to fly another day.   This is actually great news, because it demonstrates the multiple ways in which the vehicle is robust to errors - as well as giving engineers here at home an opportunity to patch them. The event took place on 22 May 2021 - the 91st Martian day of the Perseverance mission. The sky was clear and bright, pe...

Anderson Cooper:  Its done if the parachute doesnt work. Al Chen: Thats right. You know, no one wants to be that-- the guy the drops the baton. No landing by a spacecraft has ever been recorded as well as this one. There were six cameras capturing it all from different angles. The parachute deployed. Then the heat shield fell away like a lens cap, and Perseverance got its first look at the ground. This is not a simulation. This is what it looks like to parachute onto Mars. Anderson Cooper: How...

Ingenuity experienced a “stressful” moment on its sixth and latest flight earlier this week, according to NASA, when the drone began oscillating wildly due to an image processing glitch – before managing to land safely.

NASA pilots were certainly stressed when the Mars helicopter Ingenuity encountered an anomaly on its sixth test flight.

NASA/JPL-Caltech On its ambitious sixth flight, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity encountered an airborne navigation glitch that caused it to tilt back and forth while making unplanned velocity changes, but the small drone-like craft was still able to land safely, mission managers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said today. The sixth flight of the history-making helicopter — the first to perform controlled flight on another world — was planned as one of its most daring excursions to da...

According to Grip, the glitch occurred roughly 54 seconds into the flight, when a constant stream of camera images — snapped at about 30 pictures per second and fed into the helicopters navigation system — was interrupted. The glitch caused only one image to be lost. And while that seems like a minor issue, it caused all subsequent images to have inaccurate timestamps, which are used by the helicopters navigation system to determine its location, speed and positioning. Grip said the helicop...