• paulhammond5155@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      68 was an out and back test flight (according to the plan). The flight log shows it was 702 meters (shorter than planned) Those 2 images were acquired at the end of the flight, they actually show the 4 footprints in the regolith), so it’s clear that they returned to the take off location at airfield Chi. We’ve not had any further images since those 2 from 68 arrived, I’m assuming that the communication between the helicopter and the rover was reduced by the terrain after the rover’s recent drives on sols 1002, 1004 & 1006. Hopefully there are a bunch more images still on the rover waiting downlink, but we’ll probably have to wait until the rover climbs to a good spot and / or reduces the 980.5 meters to the helicopter.