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Sunday, April 25, 2021
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Completes Third Flight
Ingenuity flight 3 - Apr 25 0531 UTC, to 5 m altitude and 50 m downrange. https://t.co/jy7ZGADUiN
— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) April 25, 2021
There is, as yet, no video from this flight.
Update: here are still images from the third flight, taken both from the helicopter's on-board camera and the rover. The video at the end is from the second, up and down, flight. (2021-04-25 19:19 UTC)
CONTINUITY: What Happened to 100,000 Hour LED Bulbs?
What happened to the 100,000 hour LED bulbs?https://t.co/xp9oXlwcU9
— John Walker (@Fourmilab) April 25, 2021
For more information see the earlier SCANALYZER posts:
CONTEXT: The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy: The Phoebus Cartel and the Dawn of Planned Obsolescence
The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy: The Phoebus Cartel and the dawn of planned obsolescence.
— John Walker (@Fourmilab) April 25, 2021
The naïve authors in 2014 didn't foresee that cheap LED bulbs would be similarly “optimised” to suffer premature heat death while wasting energy at the same time.https://t.co/oJd0qNPAmD