• @[email protected]
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      335 months ago

      It didn’t land upside down, it rolled over after touch down due to high lateral velocity after one of its engines malfunctioned (and the whole reason it managed to land softly at all is because onboard software was programmed to handle such cases and find a way to land it anyway).

      • @dudinax
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        75 months ago

        It would be amazing if they could figure out how to right it.

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        35 months ago

        And it reads like it transforms.

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    25 months ago

    An unbelievable image to be sure. The Tommy-bot and Ingenity drone on Mars both really show the fault potential of small cheap bots for exploration.

    As for space photo of the decade, well, that’s gotta go to the James Webb Telescope for all kinds of discoveries.