Everything is going swimmingly. Ginny and Perseverance have made it all the way to Nuretva Vallis, a river delta in Jezero Crater.But on Flight 71, there's a new problem, and it's worse than any of the ones that came before.
It was a pivotal climb for me because I went with someone new, Ginny . Ginny and I had known each other from our kids' school for years, and we were friends, and now we were even training buddies,but we had never hiked together.
So that is what happened on Flight 72. As Ginny came down hard, she hit a dune at an angle. The force was transmitted up through the body of the helicopter, and this created a procession torque that bent the rotors, and they snapped right where the reinforcement tapers down.
They're all intact. It's the rotors. Because Ginny showed what is possible.
Well, she could tell that I was a Leo. From Ginny Johnson-- do you think your major gift has influenced other major, maybe more traditional either education endowment givers
So these massive shifts in temperature are happening all the time. But as Ginny 's mission progresses, Mars gets farther away from the Sun and enters the Martian winter. So it gets even colder at night, which is a problem.
We were flying. And then after about 10 seconds of flying with degraded navigation, we went into an emergency landing mode and sort of came down hard. They hailed Ginny and luckily she's still alive. In the error code they discover the problem.
And that carriage road was for horse-drawn buggies to take visitors and guests up to the summit. That's the exact same trail that Ginny and I used to ascend to the summit. And while it's nowhere near as broad and pristine as that now, it's delightful footing.
The children's library shelves were mine. I knew where my friends Ginny and Geneva awaited, and where the slightly naughtier Klickitat gang hung out at the end of the front row. The mean kids from 'Deenie' and 'Blubber' looked down from the high shelf.
imagine that it might have death spiraled. Instead, Ginny detects the problem and is able to emergency land before it gets too ugly. While safely on the ground, JPL discovers the error and quickly corrects it with a software patch.
Dust on Mars is no joke. I mean, for Ginny , there are two big problems. First, dust is covering her solar panels, reducing power by 18%.
Martian time. That is not the time they had been trying. So they change their search window and start calling out to Ginny around when they expect her to power up. They send out ping after ping until finally...
So I don't know how many of you have ever heard of the massive, massive flame wars that went on in Harry Potter fandom. Between Harry, Ginny , Harry, Hermione. People literally wanted to kill each other over this stuff.
They run through all the possible problems until they narrow it down to just one. The way she was designed, Ginny has an alarm clock that wakes her up. It stays awake for 15 minutes.
Well, she could tell that I was a Leo. of this long endowment, as Ginny pointed out.
This marks Sol Zero, her first day on Mars. They sever the umbilical cord and Ingenuity, affectionately known as Ginny by some on the team, prepares herself. Her mission is simple.
So she has to fly autonomously. So what happens is the pilot programs in a route, and Ginny does the rest. But to start, JPL first needs to know exactly where she's located.
Substantial, but still easier. It was a pivotal climb for me because I went with someone new, Ginny . Ginny and I had known each other from our kids' school for years, and we were friends, and now we were even training buddies,
The Wildcats are a series of five peaks that live across the road from Mount Washington. And here, you see first Sarah, followed by Ginny , followed by Rosemary, another friend who hiked with me. Now, as in any endurance sport, the mental game is paramount.
Lightning to Ingram distributors directly to online bookstores like Amazon and Barnes and Noble. You could also--if you got them into independent bookstores, they could be there, and basically, you know, no warehouse, no returns. And Ginny Winco but then at Lightning told me that Jason Eipstein of Random House and I were the first people in the literary publishing world to realize the potential, not of other things but of print