It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary than we knew
Ingenuity packed more computing power than all other NASA deep space missions combined.
Ingenuity packed more computing power than all other NASA deep space missions combined.
JWBananas, It also runs Linux
Aussiemandeus, There’s almost a pun in there with revolutionary
Deceptichum, Damn they went from a PowerPC 7xx to Qualcomm Snapdragon 801. That's quite a fucking leap.
Nighed, And the still had problems with the computer skipping navigation camera frames when they tried to take a colour photograph! I don’t think the mission would have been possible (just computationally) with the traditional space hardened computers.
I also thought the batteries would be a problem, but it turns out that the flight time limitation was engine temperature!
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