Come on NASA, let us have this one spark of joy
completed its 41st flight
ever since being gently dropped off on the surface by its much bigger brother Perseverance, well over a year and a half ago. Yes, it's covered a lot of ground on a planet hundreds of millions of miles away. Yes, it managed to take someBut considering how much time it's spent on the surface, and the dozens of very similar flights it has completed, we can't help but feel like we, the American taxpayers, deserve a little bit more excitement.NASA is supposedly a part of the government, beholden to the wisdom of the American people.
We're talking gnarly darkslide grinds on shelves of billions of years old igneous rock, or maybe a drop into an ancient pool — after all, its home for the last 600 days is the Jezero crater, which is suspected to be an ancient dried-up lake bed.Ingenuity has already blown far past its original goal of demonstrating that it's possible to take flight on the surface of another planet.
. It's also served plenty of other purposes, including scouting new sites for the Perseverance rover to visit.
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