Ingenuity Grounded
Grounding of Ingenuity per Ars Technica:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/nasas-mars-helicopter-has-made-its-last-flight-above-the-red-planet/
Update: Anton Petrov did a Mars video with an update on Ingenuity:
That's the reality of Mars. These books portray Mars as it should be:
source: https://youtu.be/sLTBRG0y6iw
https://archive.org/details/arthur-c.-clarke-audio/05+The+Sands+of+Mars+1951+
I remember my Dad had a college astronomy text book from roughly the same time as those two books were written. Most of the pictures were small, fuzzy and black and white. So Heinlein and Clarke didn't have the benefit of multiple robo-missions to Mars (or Venus also). Their written works were made on the basis of slim data. It is interesting that none of the authors from the golden age of SF anticipated the use of satellites and robo-landers before manned exploration.
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
source: https://youtu.be/sLTBRG0y6iw
https://archive.org/details/arthur-c.-clarke-audio/05+The+Sands+of+Mars+1951+
I remember my Dad had a college astronomy text book from roughly the same time as those two books were written. Most of the pictures were small, fuzzy and black and white. So Heinlein and Clarke didn't have the benefit of multiple robo-missions to Mars (or Venus also). Their written works were made on the basis of slim data. It is interesting that none of the authors from the golden age of SF anticipated the use of satellites and robo-landers before manned exploration.
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
