NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter sent its final signals to Earth in the earlier part of the year. Engineers have been studying these and have started to piece together a picture of events that led up to its final flight. They concluded that data provided by the navigation system was inaccurate leading to a chain of events … Continue reading "NASA Thinks it Knows Why Ingenuity Crashed on Mars"
So basically, they needed a GPWS on the copter.
As funny as it would be to make “bitching Betty” the fist astronaut on Mars, you’ve got a pretty tight weight and power budget to add a whole system to prevent this one outcome.