Mars Guy (YouTube) Episode 150
On the 72nd flight of its 5-flight mission, Ingenuity suffered catastrophic damage when its rotor blades contacted a sand ripple during landing. Now it’s beaming back new images from tests that expose the extent of the destruction.
They can simulate a flight on the earth bound kit, but they lost the data that could point to the events that led up to it. I would guess that it would be near imposible to isolate the specific event that led to the demise of the helicopter, was it the brown-out that led to the 10 meter flight to the west and contact with the dune ripple, or did the blades whacking the dune ripple at high speed crash the computer with a power surge, or something completely different. I’m sure the team at JPL will test a bunch of scenarios before they can sleep well at night…