BrikoXM to Civil AviationEnglish · 5 days agoNASA thinks it’s figured out why the Mars helicopter crashedwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkNASA thinks it’s figured out why the Mars helicopter crashedwww.theverge.comBrikoXM to Civil AviationEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square1fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 days ago the investigators believe that “navigation errors created high horizontal velocities at touchdown,” which most likely resulted in Ingenuity experiencing a “hard impact on the sand ripple’s slope,” causing it to pitch and roll.