NASA Trailblazer’s first selfie came out of the same frame as the wit

Trailblazer has shown its first selfie demon potential, showing off the first selfie of its Mars career.

In this selfie, Trailhead is standing on top of the desolate surface of the Red Planet, and you can see the footprints it has left behind, as well as the Mars helicopter wit just released from its abdomen. At this moment, a rover and a helicopter just appeared on the outer planet, think about it is also quite amazing.

This selfie is the work of Watson’s camera at the end of Trailblazer’s arm, which was extended on April 6, 2021, and used Watson’s camera to take a wild shot of itself, taking a total of 62 photos that were sent back to Earth and then composited by NASA staff.

Interestingly, during the selfie, Trailblazer shook its head, the mast camera looked at the Mars helicopter, and then at the selfie camera.

The final composite motion picture looks like this, quite a bit of comedy.

Here by the way, I’d like to update you on the dynamics of the witty Mars helicopter.

On April 4, 2021, the Jiji was successfully released from the belly of the Trail to the surface of Mars, and then survived the -90 degrees Celsius cold test of the Martian night alone.

Before the flight, NASA still needs to perform some checks and tests on the Jiji. For now, the pair of propellers on the wit has been unlocked and will make its first slow spin on Mars.

At that time, once the wit will receive the flight command, it will climb at a speed of 1 m / s, hover for 30 seconds at 3 meters from the surface of Mars, and then descend for landing.

A few hours after completing its first flight, Trail will transmit back to Earth the first engineering data from wit, as well as images and videos taken by the Mars rover’s navigation camera and mast camera. Based on this data, the Kijiki team hopes to determine whether Kijiki’s first flight to Mars was successful, and the results will be announced at a media conference that day.

In any case, this is another groundbreaking attempt, the first helicopter sent by humans to an alien planet, and is well worth the wait.