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by fredthedeadhead 881 days ago
Are images of the damage available to the public?

"Imagery revealing damage to the rotor blade arrived several days later."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/after-three-years-on-mars-nasa...

3 comments

There is a picture of the helicopter that has arrows in your link, click next and you will see the tip of the blade in a shadow. :(
Thanks, I missed that!

It looks like it landed on quite an incline, almost 45 degrees.

Everything about the mission provided valuable data: especially that damaged blade. Failure modes are useful. Next, it might be useful to try flying anyway.

If not, they still have running cameras, sensors and computer, until Perseverance moves out of range.

The rotors will be unbalanced (even if the other side also broke off, chances of the same amount breaking of are as remote as the thing itself), so it will vibrate and probably tip over if it spins too hard
Sure, but that will be more data than guessing and not trying.
It's math about physics (actually mechanical/aerospace engineering), not a guess.
It takes a few hours to Photoshop over the bite-marks and claw-gouges.
lol nice